Living with Darwin

Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith

Philip Kitcher (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2009
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-538434-5 (ISBN)

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Charles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century. In Living With Darwin, Philip Kitcher stokes the flames swirling around Darwin's theory, sifting through the scientific evidence for evolution, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design, and revealing why evolution has been the object of such vehement attack. Kitcher first provides valuable perspective on the present controversy, describing the many puzzles that blocked evolution's acceptance in the early years, and explaining how scientific research eventually found the answers to these conundrums. Interestingly, Kitcher shows that many of these early questions have been resurrected in recent years by proponents of Intelligent Design. In fact, Darwin himself considered the issue of intelligent design, and amassed a mountain of evidence that effectively refuted the idea. Kitcher argues that the problem with Intelligent Design isn't that it's "not science," as many critics say, but that it's "dead science," raising questions long resolved by scientists. But Kitcher points out that it is also important to recognize the cost of Darwin's success--the price of "life with Darwin." Darwinism has a profound effect on our understanding of our place in the universe, on our religious beliefs and aspirations. It is in truth the focal point of a larger clash between religious faith and modern science. Unless we can resolve this larger issue, the war over evolution will go on.

Philip Kitcher is the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. An eminent philosopher, he is the author of many books on science, literature, and music, including Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism; The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities; Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Knowledge; Science, Truth, and Democracy; and In Mendel's Mirror.

Preface ; 1. Disinterring Darwin ; 2. Goodbye to Genesis ; 3. One Tree of Life ; 4. At the Mercy of Chance? ; 5. A Mess of Pottage ; Notes ; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.6.2009
Reihe/Serie	Philosophy In Action
Zusatzinfo	3 black and white line illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	175 x 127 mm
Gewicht	204 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
ISBN-10	0-19-538434-2 / 0195384342
ISBN-13	978-0-19-538434-5 / 9780195384345
Zustand	Neuware