Render Unto Darwin
Philosophical Aspects of the Christian Right's Crusade Against Science
1st Edition
Published on 5. December 2013
288 pages
978-0-8126-9879-4 (ISBN)
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With exceptionally clear analysis, James Fetzer dissects the philosophical issues underlying today's most contentious moral debates. He examines unflinchingly the controversies where science, religion, and politics meet - intelligent design, creationism, evolution, abortion, stem-cell research, and human cloning - and offers a concept of morality based on respect of individual rights, not religion.
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Render Unto Darwin
Philosophical Aspects of the Christian Right's Crusade Against Science
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James H. Fetzer, Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota, Philosophy Department, teaches on its Duluth campus.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- FIgures and Tables
- Preface
- Glossary of Terms Used in This Book
- Prologue: Going by the Book
- 0.1 When Words Fail
- 0.2 Was There a Beginning?
- 0.3 Two Models of the Universe
- 0.4 Do Biology and Physics Conflict?
- 1. Why Does the Right Wage War on Darwin?
- 1.1 What Is Evolution?
- 1.2 Are Species Individuals?
- 1.3 Is Creation Science a Science?
- 2. Where Is Evolution Going?
- 2.1 The Tautology Problem
- 2.2 Does Evolution Optimize?
- 2.3 Is Evolution Algorithmic?
- 3. Let's See Some ID
- 3.1 Why Intelligent Design Won't Do
- 3.2 Bad Arguments for Intelligent Design
- 3.3 Intelligent Design before the Court of Law
- 4. The Immorality of the Christian Right
- 4.1 Is Morality WIthout Religion Possible?
- 4.2 Abortion, Stem-Cells, and Cloning
- 4.3 Consciousness and Personhood
- 5. Religion, Morality, and the New American Fascism
- 5.1 Flag Burners, Hookers, and Pot-Heads
- 5.2 Are Corporations Inherently Immortal?
- 5.3 Corporatism as American-Style Fascism
- Epilogue: How Science Can Help Public Policy
- 6.1 The Morality of Science
- 6.2 Politics and the Good Society
- 6.3 Must Science and Religion Conflict?
- Appendix: Defining Science
- 7.1 What Are Natural Laws?
- 7.2 What Is Science?
- 7.3 Is Creationism Science?
- References
- Index
