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Hindu Perspectives on Evolution - Darwin, Dharma, and Design (Paperback)
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Hindu Perspectives on Evolution - Darwin, Dharma, and Design (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
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Providing new insights into the contemporary creationist-evolution
debates, this book looks at the Hindu cultural-religious traditions
of India, the Hindu Dharma traditions. By focusing on the
interaction of religion and science in a Hindu context, it offers a
global context for understanding contemporary creationist-evolution
conflicts and tensions utilizing a critical analysis of Hindu
perspectives on these issues. The cultural and political as well as
theological nature of these conflicts is illustrated by drawing
attention to parallels with contemporary Islamic and Buddhist
responses to modern science and Darwinism. The book explores
various ancient and classical Hindu models to explain the origin of
the universe encompassing creationist as well as evolutionary-but
non-Darwinian-interpretations of how we came to be. Complex schemes
of cosmic evolution were developed, alongside creationist proofs
for the existence of God utilizing distinctly Hindu versions of the
design argument. After examining diverse elements of the Hindu
Dharmic traditions that laid the groundwork for an ambivalent
response to Darwinism when it first became known in India, the book
highlights the significance of the colonial context. Analysing
critically the question of compatibility between traditional
Dharmic theories of knowledge and the epistemological assumptions
underlying contemporary scientific methodology, the book raises
broad questions regarding the frequently alleged harmony of
Hinduism, the eternal Dharma, with modern science, and with
Darwinian evolution in particular.
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