The Evolution-Creation StruggleHarvard University Press, 2005 M05 31 - 327 pages 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. |
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
Christianity and Its Discontents | 7 |
From Progress to Evolution | 28 |
Growth of a Pseudoscience | 42 |
Charles Darwin | 64 |
Failure of a Professional Science | 83 |
Social Darwinism | 103 |
Christian Responses | 129 |
Population Genetics | 168 |
Evolution Today | 190 |
Nature as Promise | 214 |
Earths Last Days? | 236 |
Conclusion | 262 |
Notes | 289 |
References and Reading | 299 |
Acknowledgments | 318 |