An ant's colony / / Erika de Nijs

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910150360003321
• Autore: De Nijs Erika
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Cavendish Square, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-5026-2078-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (26 pages)
• Collana: BookWorms Animal Builders
• Disciplina: 595.796
• Soggetti: Ant communities; Ants - Behavior
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

The creationist debate [[electronic resource] ] : the encounter between the Bible and the historical mind / / Arthur McCalla

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782971103321
• Autore: McCalla Arthur
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : T & T Clark International, c2006
• ISBN: 1-282-01400-5; 9786612014000; 1-4411-9038-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Disciplina: 231.7/652
• Soggetti: Creationism; Bible and evolution
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Chapter 1 THE TWO BOOKS; Chapter 2 MACHINE OR RUIN?; Chapter 3 BIBLICAL EXCEPTIONALISM; Chapter 4 HISTORIES OF THE GENTILES; Chapter 5 THE BIRTH OF DEEP TIME; Chapter 6 'CREATION'S FINAL LAW'; Chapter 7 THE HIGHER CRITICISM OF THE BIBLE; Chapter 8 EVOLUTION AND DESIGN; Chapter 9 PREHISTORIC HUMANS; Chapter 10 THE BIBLE IN AMERICA; Chapter 11 FUNDAMENTALISM; Chapter 12 YOUNG-EARTH CREATIONISM; Chapter 13 CREATION SCIENCE; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book places the present Creationist opposition to the theory of evolution in historical context by setting out the ways in which, from the seventeenth century onwards, investigations of the history of the earth and of humanity have challenged the biblical views of chronology and human destiny, and the Christian responses to these challenges. The author's interest is not primarily directed to questions such as the epistemological status of scientific versus religious knowledge or the possibility of a Darwinian ethics, but rather to the problems, and various responses to the problems, raise