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The evolution-creation struggle

"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
Print Book, English, 2005
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2005
Nonfiction
327 pages ; 22 cm
9780674016873, 9780674022553, 0674016874, 0674022556
57549692
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?