Among the creationists : dispatches from the anti-evolutionist front line / / Jason Rosenhouse
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| Autore: |
Rosenhouse Jason
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| Titolo: |
Among the creationists : dispatches from the anti-evolutionist front line / / Jason Rosenhouse
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 231.7/652 |
| Soggetto topico: | Creationism |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Vignettes -- pt. 2. The creation mega-conference, Lynchburg, Virginia, July 2005 -- pt. 3. The "Darwin vs. design" conference, Knoxville, Tennessee, March 2007 -- pt. 4. Visiting the creation museum, Petersburg, Kentucky, August 2010 -- pt. 5. The sixth international conference on creationism, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 2008. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Why do so many Americans reject the modern theory of evolution? Seeking answers, mathematician Jason Rosenhouse became a regular attendee at creationist conferences and other gatherings. After ten years of attending events like the giant Creation Mega-Conference in Lynchburg, Virginia, and visiting sites like the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, and after hundreds of mostly friendly conversations with creationists of varying stripes, he has emerged with a story to tell, a story that goes well beyond the usual stereotypes of Bible-thumping fanatics railing against coldly rational scient |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Among the creationists |
| ISBN: | 0-19-991109-6 |
| 0-19-026782-8 | |
| 1-280-59326-1 | |
| 9786613623096 | |
| 0-19-990816-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813979403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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