Creation-Evolution Debate Historical Perspectives

Name: Creation-Evolution Debate Historical Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780820331065

ISBN-10: 0820331066

ISBN-13: 9780820331065

Edition: N/A

Authors: Edward J. Larson, Mitchell Reddish

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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…

Book details

Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 6/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 88
Size: 4.50" wide x 7.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English