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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454933603321

Autore

Ruse Michael

Titolo

The evolution-creation struggle [[electronic resource] /] / Michael Ruse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-674-04297-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 p.)

Classificazione

BN 4300

Disciplina

202.4

Soggetti

Human evolution - Religious aspects - Christianity

Religion and science

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

In his latest book, Ruse uncovers surprising similarities between evolutionist and creationist thinking. Exploring the underlying philosophical commitments of evolutionists, he reveals that those most hostile to religion are just as evangelical as their fundamentalist opponents. But more crucially, and 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.