The evolution-creation struggle / Michael Ruse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruse, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human evolution--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Human evolution.

Religion and science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

New York Magazine Best Academic Book 2005

ISBN:

9780674042971

0674042972

OCLC:

432712775