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.
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 bracing 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.
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