Creationist Debate

The Encounter between the Bible and the Historical Mind

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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This book places the present Creationist opposition to the theory of evolution in historical context by setting out the ways in which, from the seventeenth century onwards, investigations of the history of the earth and of humanity have challenged the biblical views of chronology and human destiny, and the Christian responses to these challenges. The author's interest is not primarily directed to questions such as the epistemological status of scientific versus religious knowledge or the possibility of a Darwinian ethics, but rather to the problems, and various responses to the problems, raised in a particular historical period in the West for the Bible by the massive extension of the duration of geological time and human history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2006-06-15
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt300 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780826464477

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'The historical context of American creationism typically begins with early 20th-century American fundamentalism and biblical literalism. The Creationist Debate provides a much richer historical framework for understanding creationism in America by situating it within the long history of biblical interpretation. Prof. McCalla frames the evolution-creationism controversy in the U. S. by weaving it into a discussion of western European religious history and its intersection with the history of western science. In doing so, he also illuminates the historical underpinnings of intelligent design creationism, providing the historical context of the intelligent design movement's reactionary resistance not only to evolutionary theory, but to most of the intellectual accomplishments of the modern world." Barbara Forrest, professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University and co-author with Paul R. Gross of Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design