Dissent Over Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge to Darwinism

Fuller, Steve

ISBN 10: 1840468041 / ISBN 13: 9781840468045

Edité par Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, Australia, 2008

A propos de cet article

Hardcover with black boards and pictorial dust jacket, Australian edition, 394gms, 272 pages. In this book, the author argues that the search for intelligent design in nature has been science's overriding concern for its entire history. Book is in very good condition with mild general wear and tear and light page discolouration throughout, otherwise no other pre-loved markings.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Dissent Over Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge to Darwinism
• Éditeur: Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, Australia
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1840468041
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781840468045
• Reliure: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
• Édition: Australian Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Science
  • Religion/Spirituality

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Synopsis

If you think Intelligent Design Theory (IDT) is merely the respectable face of Christian fundamentalism, and Evolution the only sensible scientific world-view, think again...IDT has driven science for 500 years. It was responsible for the 17th century's Scientific Revolution and helped build modern histories of physics, mathematics, genetics and social science. IDT's proponents take literally the Biblical idea that humans have been created in God's image. This confident, even arrogant, view of humanity enabled the West to triumph in the modern era. Evolution, on the other hand, derives from more ancient, even pagan, ideas about our rootedness in nature and the transience of all life forms. It has been always more popular outside the West, and until Darwin few evolutionists were scientists. What happened to reverse these two movements' fortunes? Steve Fuller's brilliant revisionist history is essential reading for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of science's most vociferous debate.

À propos de l?auteur

Steve Fuller has appeared on Radio 4's 'Today', Radio 3's 'Nightwaves' and Channel 4's 'Trial of the 21st Century'. He has written for the Independent, the New Scientist and the New York Times, among others. Fuller is also Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick.