04128cam a2200601Ia 4500 ocn432712775 OCoLC 20200709055220.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 090824r20062005mau ob 001 0 eng d N$T eng pn N$T OCLCQ CNKEY OCLCQ E7B OCLCF COO NLGGC YDXCP DEBSZ OCLCQ EBLCP OCLCQ AGLDB OCLCQ MOR PIFAG ZCU MERUC OCLCQ 733080650 748589513 923109003 992931551 9780674042971 (electronic bk.) 0674042972 (electronic bk.) 0674016874 (alk. paper) 9780674016873 (alk. paper) 9780674022553 0674022556 282316 (N$T) (OCoLC)432712775 (OCoLC)733080650 (OCoLC)748589513 (OCoLC)923109003 (OCoLC)992931551 BT712 .R88 2005eb REL 067000 bisacsh 231.7652 22 MAIN Ruse, Michael. The evolution-creation struggle / Michael Ruse. Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2005. 1 online resource (327 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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? Print version record. Creation versus evolution: What seems like a cultural crisis of our day, played out in courtrooms and classrooms across the county, is in fact part of a larger story reaching back through the centuries. The views of both evolutionists and creationists originated as inventions of the Enlightenment--two opposed but closely related responses to a loss of religious faith in the Western world. 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 bracing 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. Master record variable field(s) change: 650 Human evolution Religious aspects Christianity. Religion and science. Homme Évolution Aspect religieux Christianisme. Religion et sciences. RELIGION Christian Theology General. bisacsh Human evolution Religious aspects Christianity. fast (OCoLC)fst00963038 Religion and science. fast (OCoLC)fst01093848 Electronic books. Print version: Ruse, Michael. Evolution-creation struggle. Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2005 0674022556 9780674022553 (OCoLC)70986330 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=282316 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL3300074 ebrary EBRY ebr10312779 EBSCOhost EBSC 282316 YBP Library Services YANK 3060988 92 N$T 49534 49534