Science, Evolution, and Religion

Michael Peterson

Michael Ruse

Oxford University Press Academic US

The Evolution Wars draws on history, science, and philosophy to examine the development of evolutionary thought through the past two and a half centuries. It focuses on the debates that have engaged, divided, and ultimately provoked scientists to ponder the origins of organisms—including humankind—paying regard to the nineteenth-century clash over the nature of classification and debates about the fossil record, genetics, and human nature. Much attention is paid to external factors and the underlying motives of scientists. In these pages you will meet Charles Darwin’s ebullient grandfather Erasmus, the contentious Frenchmen Georges Cuvier and Etienne Geoffroy Stain-Hillaire, new creationist Phillip Johnson, the brilliant J. B. S. Haldane, outspoken Richard Dawkins, and many other stars of the debates. The Evolution Wars explores the ten greatest controversies surrounding evolution in world history, with emphasis on recent times, including the infamous Scopes trial of the 1920s: the search for human origins and speculation about the “missing link,” spurred by the discovery of “Lucy;” the debate surrounding the new theory of paleontology proposed by Stephen Jay Gould; and the rise of teaching “creation science” in public school as a subject on par with evolution.
Although the author takes a strong stand on the side of evolution, he also shows respect for dissenting viewpoints. Thus, the book is intellectually rewarding not only for evolutionists but also for opponents of evolution theory, especially those who want to see how one of the great ideas of Western civilization resonates through time, both within and beyond the scientific community.

The Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debates

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Rutgers University Press

Architects are rarely invited into the theological debate the way scientists often and artists sometimes are, this despite the obvious analogies between design and Design. Even when they are designing places of worship, the shape of their own faith is given no special place, nor the theological implications of what they are doing regardless of faith. (Indeed, mention "architecture" and "religion" or "God" in the same sentence, and the mind automatically flips to churchs and synagogues, and then to fifty cliche forms.) The idea behind this volume was to blaze a new trail in thinking rationally about religion, theology, and everyday life. It opens, new avenues of debate and discussion about the meaning of religious faith in the 21st century. For not only architects, of course, but also film-makers, writers, composers, painters, scientists, institution-builders, and inventors create-design-with similar if not the same ethical constraints and incentives. The desire of everyman to be creatively involved in life is, we submit, an essentially religious desire. Understanding why and how this is so through architecture might make this clearer to all, and more realizable.

CENTER, Volume 15: Divinity, Creativity, Complexity

Michael Benedikt

Thomas Fisher

William S. Saunders

Stanley Tigerman

Charles Jencks

John F. Haught

Richard Becherer

Tom Spector

William C. Richards

Sheryl Tucker de Vasquez

Jin Baek

Alvaro Malo

Center for American Architecture and Design

The Philosophy of Human Evolution

Cambridge University Press

Evolution and Religion: A Dialogue (New Dialogues in Philosophy)

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

First published a decade ago, Michael Ruse's Taking Darwin Seriously established itself as one of the most important works on evolutionary naturalism since Darwin's own Origin of Species in 1859. Updated with a new preface and final chapter, this timely volume challenges the threadworn arguments as well as the new claims of creationism seeping into mainstream education, science, and philosophy, and reestablishes solid arguments supporting the science of Charles Darwin.Applying evolutionary biology to traditional philosophical problems, this volume establishes a naturalistic approach to our understanding of life's major problems. Ruse argues thoughtfully that to understand the problems of knowledge (epistemology) and of moral thought and behavior (ethics), we must know that we are the end-products of the natural process of evolution rather than the special creation of a supernatural god. At the same time, he warns evolutionists who would fashion an atheistic secular religion from their science.Written in an easy style to interest the professional and the general reader, this book is a pillar of philosophy intended as a direct challenge to all those who would push creationism as a credible alternative to scientific evolution in public schools, universities, and as a general theory of public consumption.

Taking Darwin Seriously: A Naturalistic Approach to Philosophy

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Prometheus

Science & Math

Edward Osborne Wilson

Evolution

ABC-CLIO

Reading Ruse

Wipf and Stock Publishers

¿Puede alguien que acepta la teoría darwinista de la selección natural suscribir a su vez las afirmaciones básicas del cristianismo? Esta es la pregunta que se lanza en estas páginas al centro del debate existente sobre la relación entre ciencia y religión y, en particular, entre esa forma de biología evolucionista llamada darwinismo y los principios básicos de la fe cristiana. En un momento en el que los continuos avances de la ciencia en materia de biología y neurología ponen inevitablemente en tela de juicio los dogmas religiosos y dan lugar a obras tan polémicas como The God delusion, de Richard Dawkins, esta obra de Michael Ruse nos ofrece una alternativa conciliadora. Con una perspectiva equilibrada sobre el tema mediante la cual realiza un serio análisis en el que, además de abordar figuras destacadas como el anteriormente mencionado Richard Dawkins y Stephen Jay Gould -por la parte de la ciencia- o Arthur Peacocke y Robert J. Russell -por la parte de la religión-, sopesa en detalle las afirmaciones del neocreacionismo y revela algunos paralelismos sorprendentes entre los materialistas darwinianos y los pensadores tradicionales como san Agustín.  Escrita con un estilo dinámico libre de tecnicismos, Can a Darwinian be a Christian? resulta accesible tanto a lectores especializados como al público general que busca una guía sensata y con fundamento a un debate candente. Michael Ruse es Lucyle T. Werkmeist Professor de Filosofía, en la universidad de Florida en la que dirige el programa de Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia. Ha participado activamente en debates con creacionistas y fue un testigo experto para la Unión de Libertades Civiles Norteamericanas en el juicio creacionista de Arkansas en 1981 en el que habló sobre las cuestiones de la filosofía de la evolución en oposición al creacionismo. Es autor de varios libros sobre Darwin y la biología evolucionista, así como editor de las Cambridge Series en filosofía de la biología.

Puede un darwinista ser cristiano? La relacion entre ciencia y religion (Spanish Edition)

Siglo XXI Editores Espana

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