The evolution-creation struggle

by Ruse, Michael

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Title Statements

Full title :The evolution-creation struggle / Michael Ruse.

Summary

"In his latest book, Michael Ruse, a preeminent authority on Darwinian evolutionary thought and a leading participant in the ongoing debate, 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." "Highlighting modern-day partisans as divergent as Richard Dawkins and Left Behind authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Ruse's book takes on the assumptions of controversialists of every stripe and belief and offers to all a new and productive way of understanding this unifying, if often bitter, quest."--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:2005.

The Physical Object

Description:327 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0674016874, 9780674016873, 0674022556, 9780674022553
oclc:ocm57549692
LC Classification:BT712
Dewey Decimal:231.7/652

Christianity and its discontents -- From progress to evolution -- Growth of a pseudoscience -- Charles Darwin -- Failure of a professional science -- Social Darwinism -- Christian responses -- Fundamentalism -- Population genetics -- Evolution today -- Nature as promise -- Earth's last days?

Subjects

42.02 philosophy and theory of biology Biological Evolution Christianisme Christianity Controversen creationisme Êtres humains -- Évolution Evolutietheorie Évolution Évolution (Biologie) Evolution (Biology) Evolutionstheorie Geloof en wetenschap Hommes -- Évolution Human evolution -- Religious aspects Nonfiction Religion and science Religion et sciences Schöpfungsglaube