Arguing against Darwinism Religion, Science, and Public Morality

The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 286-308

  Evans, Michael S ^a   Evans, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arguing against Darwinism religion, science and public morality; Creation science launch of sputnik in 1957, the American government turning to funding science education; Darwinism as a moral project; Darwinism, the grounds for making moral claims by scientists; Epistemological arguments less important in motivating ordinary people and challenging Darwinism; History of creationist challenges to Darwinism; Sociology of religion, different understandings of how religion ought to be defined; Three major epistemological approaches resolving creationist challenges, science education, movement suppression

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EID: 80053205196     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444320787.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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