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Monkey trials and gorilla sermons : evolution and Christianity from Darwin to intelligent design
From the beginning, Darwin's dangerous idea has been a snake in the garden, denounced from pulpits then and now as incompatible with the central tenets of Christian faith. Recovered here is the less well-known but equally long history of thoughtful engagement and compromise on the part of liberal theologians. Peter J. Bowler doesn't minimize the hostility of many of the faithful toward evolution, but he reveals the existence of a long tradition within the churches that sought to reconcile Christian beliefs with evolution by finding reflections of the divine in scientific explanations for the origin of life. By tracing the historical forerunners of these rival Christian responses, Bowler provides a valuable alternative to accounts that stress only the escalating confrontation.
Our polarized society, Bowler says, has all too often projected its rivalries onto the past, concealing the efforts by both scientists and theologians to find common ground. Our perception of past confrontations has been shaped by an oversimplified model of a \"war\" between science and religion. By uncovering the complexity of the debates sparked by Darwin's theory, we might discover ways to depolarize our own debates about where we came from and why we are here.
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Darwin deleted : imagining a world without Darwin
A history of science text imagining how evolutionary theory and biology would have been understood if Darwin had never published his \"Origin of Species\" and other works.--publisher summary.
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The Mendelian revolution : the emergence of hereditarian concepts in modern science and society
An introduction to the history of genetics and the rethinking of evolutionism.
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An interview with Charles Darwin
\"Charles Darwin was a nineteenth century English naturalist responsible for several advancements in evolutionary theory.\"--Publisher.
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Reconciling science and religion
Although much has been written about the vigorous debates over science and religion in the Victorian era, little attention has been paid to their continuing importance in early twentieth-century Britain. Reconciling Science and Religion provides a comprehensive survey of the interplay between British science and religion from the late nineteenth century to World War II. Peter J. Bowler argues that unlike the United States, where a strong fundamentalist opposition to evolutionism developed in the 1920s (most famously expressed in the Scopes \"monkey trial\" of 1925), in Britain there was a concerted effort to reconcile science and religion. Intellectually conservative scientists championed the reconciliation and were supported by liberal theologians in the Free Churches and the Church of England, especially the Anglican \"Modernists.\" Popular writers such as Julian Huxley and George Bernard Shaw sought to create a non-Christian religion similar in some respects to the Modernist position. Younger scientists and secularists—including Rationalists such as H. G. Wells and the Marxists—tended to oppose these efforts, as did conservative Christians, who saw the liberal position as a betrayal of the true spirit of their religion. With the increased social tensions of the 1930s, as the churches moved toward a neo-orthodoxy unfriendly to natural theology and biologists adopted the \"Modern Synthesis\" of genetics and evolutionary theory, the proposed reconciliation fell apart. Because the tensions between science and religion—and efforts at reconciling the two—are still very much with us today, Bowler's book will be important for everyone interested in these issues.
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The Superior person's complete book of words : an orgulous verbal arsenal for everyday use
\"What Bowler manages to do in this omnium gatherum of over 1,000 words that all of us have (very) occasionally heard but have no idea how to use, is not only to provide their definitions (easy enough) but also to offer, for the first time, practical advice on how to use these words in real-life situations, to confound your friends, irritate your enemies, and impress your superiors. Thus the reader will not only learn the meaning of aprosexia, but also how best to use it when filling out their sick leave application form. Sample sentences, in comprehensible and often hilarious prose, are given for every word providing a verbal arsenal potent enough to 'confuse, deter, embarrass, humiliate, puzzle, deceive, disconcert, alarm, insult (and occasionally compliment) everyone' with relative impunity\"--Amazon.com.
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WHAT DID THE GREYWACKE SAY?
Yet Mr. [Martin J. S. Rudwick] does not go along with the more radical sociologists who argue that all scientific ''knowledge'' is no more than the privately agreed opinion expressed by a group of experts. The Devonian has retained its meaning as a key period in the earth's history, during which terrestrial plants appeared and vertebrate animals became abundant. To use an analogy, for Mr. Rudwick the geologists were attempting to ''map'' the sequence of events in the past, and their arguments finally determined which convention would be seen as the most fruitful way of representing the hidden reality. I T would be a mistake to suppose that so technical an issue could only be of interest to specialist historians of geology. Some chapters of Mr. Rudwick's book may well make heavy going for the uninitiated, but the value of his study lies in the great detail he has furnished on the day-to-day reactions of the scientists engaged in the controversy. The activity of early-19th-century scientists is probably better documented than that of any other period - including the present -thanks to the introduction of an efficient postal service and the absence of that more ephemeral form of communication, the telephone conversation. After years of work in various archives, Mr. Rudwick has unearthed a comprehensive series of letters, notebooks and records of meetings and reconstructed every aspect of the Devonian controversy. Anyone interested in the way science actually works (as opposed to the myths created by philosophers of science and the scientists themselves) cannot fail to be fascinated by this book.
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The Secrets of Generation
From theories of conception and concepts of species to museum displays of male genitalia and the politics of breastmilk, The Secrets of Generation is an interdisciplinary examination of the many aspects of reproduction in the eighteenth century.
Exploring the theme of generation from the perspective of histories of medicine, literature, biology, technology, and culture, this collection offers a range of cutting-edge approaches. Its twenty-four contributors, scholars from across Europe and North America, bring an international perspective to discuss reproduction in British, French, American, German, and Italian contexts.
The definitive collection on eighteenth-century generation and its many milieus, The Secrets of Generation will be an essential resource for studying this topic for years to come.
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Autism spectrum disorder in mid and later life
Bringing together international academics and professionals who are actively researching and working in the field, this pioneering scholarly volume covers the issues faced by individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD) in mid and later life.
Including a range of personal, academic and clinical perspectives, the book considers historical and contemporary perspectives on autism, including diagnosis, developmental outcomes and life course issues. Attention is given to medical, care and psychological issues that arise as people with ASD age, such as declining cognitive function and speech and communication issues. Family, community support, housing, advocacy, and socio-cultural considerations for older adults with ASD are also given careful consideration, and there are chapters on relationship and sexuality issues and on environmental design.
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