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

• Autore: Ruse Michael
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 p.)
• Disciplina: 202.4
• Soggetto topico: Human evolution - Religious aspects - Christianity; Religion and science
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: BN 4300
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Evolution-creation struggle
• ISBN: 0-674-04297-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454933603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II