Creationism and the Conflict Over Evolution

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-227-17282-7
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 164 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 191 mm, Gewicht: 191 g

A concise and accessible analysis of the controversy between evolutionism and creationism rejecting simplistic science-versus-religion stereotypes.

How do our current notions of the workings of the universe fit with our deepest convictions about its meaning and value? From religion, we grasp the world as created, given, gift. From science, we apprehend it as evolving, in process, changing. How do we bring these apprehensions together? Or can we? Is our impulse to find the two complementary: creation and evolution? Or is it to find them contradictory: creation or evolution? From the Preface: 'The way in which we answer these questions carries personal and intellectual consequences. It will constitute the first piece in a worldview within which we order our religious beliefs and scientific judgments.'

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wiley, Tatha

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. The Bible and Creation

2. The Meaning of Creation

3. Method, Truth and Evolutionary Science
4. Catholics and the Theory of Evolution

5. Creationism in the Public Arena

6. Fundamentalist Anxiety