Evolution-Creation Struggle

Informationen zum Autor Michael Ruse is the former Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Guelph. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Gifford Lecturer, and the author or editor of more than sixty books. Klappentext 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. 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. This title deals with creation versus evolution.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Michael Ruse, Ruse Michael
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Sprachen: Englisch
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2006
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Weitere Religionen; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Sonstiges
• EAN: 9780674022553
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02255-3
• Anzahl Seiten: 336
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 14 x 20.3 x 1.9 cm
• Themen: RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Theology; Biology, life sciences