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The Evolution-Creation Struggle.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674042971
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Evolution-Creation StruggleLOC classification:
  • BT712
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1 Christianity and Its Discontents -- 2 From Progress to Evolution -- 3 Growth of a Pseudoscience -- 4 Charles Darwin -- 5 Failure of a Professional Science -- 6 Social Darwinism -- 7 Christian Responses -- 8 Fundamentalism -- 9 Population Genetics -- 10 Evolution Today -- 11 Nature as Promise -- 12 Earth's Last Days? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References and Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Ruse uncovers surprising similarities between evolutionist and creationist thinking. Reaching beyond the biblical issues at stake, he demonstrates that these two diametrically opposed ideologies have, since the Enlightenment, engaged in a struggle for the privilege of defining human origins, moral values, and the nature of reality.
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Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1 Christianity and Its Discontents -- 2 From Progress to Evolution -- 3 Growth of a Pseudoscience -- 4 Charles Darwin -- 5 Failure of a Professional Science -- 6 Social Darwinism -- 7 Christian Responses -- 8 Fundamentalism -- 9 Population Genetics -- 10 Evolution Today -- 11 Nature as Promise -- 12 Earth's Last Days? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References and Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Ruse uncovers surprising similarities between evolutionist and creationist thinking. Reaching beyond the biblical issues at stake, he demonstrates that these two diametrically opposed ideologies have, since the Enlightenment, engaged in a struggle for the privilege of defining human origins, moral values, and the nature of reality.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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