Creation-Evolution Debates

Creation-Evolution Debates
Title Creation-Evolution Debates PDF eBook
Author Ronald L. Numbers
Publisher Routledge
Pages 592
Release 2021-10-17
Genre Religion
ISBN 1000027937

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Originally published in 1995, Creation-Evolution Debates is the second volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth Century America, reissued in 2021. The volume comprises eight debates from the early 1920s and 1930s between prominent evolutionists and creationists of the time. The original sources detail debates that took place either orally or in print, as well as active debates between creationists over the true meaning of Genesis I. The essays in this volume feature prominent discussions between the likes of Edwin Grant Conklin, Henry Fairfield Osbourne and William Jennings Bryan, John Roach Francis and Charles Francis Potter, George McCready Price and Joseph McCabe and William Bell Riley versus Charles Smith, amongst many others. The collection will be of especial interest to natural historians, and theologians as well as academics of philosophy, and history.

The Creation-Evolution Debate

The Creation-Evolution Debate
Title The Creation-Evolution Debate PDF eBook
Author Edward J. Larson
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 85
Release 2008
Genre History
ISBN 0820331066

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Few issues besides evolution have so strained Americans' professed tradition of tolerance. Few historians besides Pulitzer Prize winner Edward J. Larson have so perceptively chronicled evolution's divisive presence on the American scene. This slim volume reviews the key aspects, current and historical, of the creation-evolution debate in the United States. Larson discusses such topics as the transatlantic response to Darwinism, the American controversy over teaching evolution in public schools, and the religious views of American scientists. He recalls the theological qualms about evolution held by some leading scientists of Darwin's time. He looks at the 2006 Dover, Pennsylvania, court decision on teaching Intelligent Design and other cases leading back to the landmark 1925 Scopes trial. Drawing on surveys that Larson conducted, he discusses attitudes of American scientists toward the existence of God and the afterlife. By looking at the changing motivations and backgrounds of the stakeholders in the creation-evolution debate--clergy, scientists, lawmakers, educators, and others--Larson promotes a more nuanced view of the question than most of us have. This is no incidental benefit for Larson's readers; it is one of the book's driving purposes. If we cede the debate to those who would frame it simplistically rather than embrace its complexity, warns Larson, we will not advance beyond the naive regard of organized religion as the enemy of intellectual freedom or the equally myopic myth of the scientist as courageous loner willing to die for the truth.

Evolution and the Myth of Creationism

Evolution and the Myth of Creationism
Title Evolution and the Myth of Creationism PDF eBook
Author Tim M. Berra
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 218
Release 1990
Genre Science
ISBN 9780804717700

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Gives a description of evolutionary theory and analyzes the arguments of the creationists.

The Creation-evolution Controversy

The Creation-evolution Controversy
Title The Creation-evolution Controversy PDF eBook
Author R. L. Wysong
Publisher Wysong Institute
Pages 472
Release 1976
Genre Creation
ISBN 0918112028

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Who has not wondered about the origin of the universe and life? And, for certain, this is a question that should be taken with the utmost seriousness and sense of duty. After all, how can we know why we are here or what we should be doing if we do not know where we came from?Although religions have their belief (creation), and materialists have their belief(evolution), beliefs are not what truth is about. This is a book of daring adventure between these two emotionally charged belief systems. Rather than advocate, Dr. Wysong pits one belief against the other using the only weapons that should be used if truth is the objective: reason and evidence.Dr. Wysong's rational, philosophic, and scientific probings make this book a reservoir of thoughtful and factual information that will not draw dust on your bookshelf.Now in its thirteenth printing, this seminal 1975 book has been read worldwide, is widely cited on the web, and continues to be used in schools. It has helped lay the groundwork for a rational dialogue between religion and science and remains current to this day because of its even handed treatment of the subject and because reason should never fall out of fashion.

The Evolution-Creation Struggle

The Evolution-Creation Struggle
Title The Evolution-Creation Struggle PDF eBook
Author Michael RUSE
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 336
Release 2009-06-30
Genre Science
ISBN 0674042972

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In his latest book, Ruse 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.

Defending Evolution in the Classroom

Defending Evolution in the Classroom
Title Defending Evolution in the Classroom PDF eBook
Author Brian J. Alters
Publisher Jones & Bartlett Learning
Pages 280
Release 2001
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780763711184

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A novel handbook that explains why so many secondary and college students reject evolution and are antagonistic toward its teaching.

Evolutionary Creation

Evolutionary Creation
Title Evolutionary Creation PDF eBook
Author Denis O. Lamoureux
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 514
Release 2008-06-15
Genre Religion
ISBN 1725244284

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In this provocative book, evolutionist and evangelical Christian Denis O. Lamoureux proposes an approach to origins that moves beyond the "evolution-versus-creation" debate. Arguing for an intimate relationship between the Book of God's Words and the Book of God's Works, he presents evolutionary creation--a position that asserts that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit created the universe and life through an ordained and sustained evolutionary process. This view of origins affirms intelligent design and the belief that beauty, complexity, and functionality in nature reflect the mind of God. Lamoureux also challenges the popular Christian assumption that the Holy Spirit revealed scientific and historical facts in the opening chapters of the Bible. He contends that Scripture features an ancient understanding of origins that functions as a vessel to deliver inerrant and infallible messages of faith. Lamoureux shares his personal story and his struggle in coming to terms with evolution and Christianity. Like many, he lost his boyhood faith at university in classes on evolutionary biology. After graduation, he experienced a born-again conversion and then embraced belief in a literal six-day creation. Graduate school training at the doctoral level in both theology and biology led him to the conclusion that God created the world through evolution. Lamoureux closes with the two most important issues in the origins controversy--the pastoral and pedagogical implications. How should churches approach this volatile topic? And what should Christians teach their children about origins?