Render Unto Darwin

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PHILOSOPHY/RELIGION
• Why has Creat'ionism—yesterday Creation Science and today Intelligent Design— become resurgent when evidence keeps pouring in to support Darwin?
• Can objective standards of morality be applied to issues like abortion, human cloning, and stem-cell research?
• Why does the U.S. ruling elite—government of the people, by the rich, for the rich— subsidize Creationism, a movement of no interest to the rich?
. What are theßaws of current evolutionary theory, which disable and disarm it in the face of irrational public attacks?
• Where science, religion, and politics meet, what does philosophy have to say?
In this exceptionally clear analysis, a leading philosopher and public intellectual lays out the evidence and logic relating to evolution and Creation. Professor Fetzer exposes the philosophical issues at the core of passionate public-debates. He demonstrates that, w/hile God's Creation of the universe can be reconciled w/ith the scientific evidence, the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

PHILOSOPHY/RELIGION
• Why has Creat'ionism—yesterday Creation Science and today Intelligent Design— become resurgent when evidence keeps pouring in to support Darwin?
• Can objective standards of morality be applied to issues like abortion, human cloning, and stem-cell research?
• Why does the U.S. ruling elite—government of the people, by the rich, for the rich— subsidize Creationism, a movement of no interest to the rich?
. What are theßaws of current evolutionary theory, which disable and disarm it in the face of irrational public attacks?
• Where science, religion, and politics meet, what does philosophy have to say?
In this exceptionally clear analysis, a leading philosopher and public intellectual lays out the evidence and logic relating to evolution and Creation. Professor Fetzer exposes the philosophical issues at the core of passionate public-debates. He demonstrates that, w/hile God's Creation of the universe can be reconciled w/ith the scientific evidence, the literal account in Genesis cannot be so reconciled.
Render Unto Darwin unravels some of the muddled thinking inherent in present-day evolutionary discussions, but show/s that any Creationism w^hich denies the great truths disclosed by Darw/in is a lost cause. Fetzer explains that morality can be objectivély validated independently of religion, and that only a deontological standard of ethics passes the essential tests.
In the most provocative part of this provocative bbok, Fetzer argues that an unholy alliance of fundamentalist propagandists and rightw/ing politicians is playing its part in the rise of a new American fascism based on the domination of civic life by unserupu jous business corporations.
"Render Unto Darwin is a well written and timely book on a topic that sórely needs careful discussion. I recommend it as an excellent introduction to the subject." -—Michael Ruse
Author of Darwinism and Its Discontents and Can a Darwinian Be a Christian?
"Biting assay of Darwinism's latest clash with Biblical-fueled politics, Fetzer diagnoses a chilling fascist beat in his homeland's now-speak of fear, self-righteous conformity, and egoistic belligerence. Essential reading for all who care about science and genuine faith, and their alliance in defense of true liberty." —Charles J. Lumsden
Co-author (with Edward O. Wilson) of Cenes, Mind, and Culture and Promethean Fire Vissza