Why Are There Still Creationists?: Human Evolution and the Ancestors - Softcover

Marks, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509547479 ISBN 13: 9781509547470

Verlag: Polity, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

The evidence for the ancestry of the human species among the apes is overwhelming. But the facts are never “just” facts. Human evolution has always been a value-laden scientific theory and, as anthropology makes clear, the ancestors are always sacred. They may be ghosts, or corpses, or fossils, or a naked couple in a garden, but the idea that you are part of a lineage is a powerful and universal one. Meaning and morals are at play, which most certainly transcend science and its quest for maximum accuracy.

With clarity and wit, Jonathan Marks shows that the creation/evolution debate is not science versus religion. After all, modern anti-evolutionists reject humanistic scholarship about the Bible even more fundamentally than they reject the science of our simian ancestry. Widening horizons on both sides of the debate, Marks makes clear that creationism is a theological, not a scientific, debate and that thinking perceptively about values and meanings should not be an alternative to thinking about science – it should be a key part of it.

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Jonathan Marks is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Polity
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1509547479
• ISBN 13: 9781509547470
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
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