Darwinism as religion : what literature tells us about evolution /
'Darwinism as Religion' argues that the theory of evolution given by Charles Darwin in the nineteenth century has always functioned as much as a secular form of religion as anything purely scientific. Through the words of novelists and poets, Michael Ruse argues that Darwin took us from th...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Online access with subscription: University Press scholarship online (Oxford scholarship online)
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- The eighteenth century
- Before Darwin
- The Darwinian theory
- Reception
- God
- Origins
- Humans
- Race and class
- Morality
- Sex
- Sin and redemption
- The future
- Darwinism as background
- Darwinian theory comes of age
- The divide continues
- Conflicting visions
- Epilogue.