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The Creation/Evolution Controversy - A Battle for Cultural Power (Hardcover, New)
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The Creation/Evolution Controversy - A Battle for Cultural Power (Hardcover, New)
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This rhetorical study of the various language strategies and
competing worldviews involved in the 140-year argument between
Biblical creationists and Darwinian evolutionists focuses on the
1860 Huxley/Wilberforce debate, the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, and
the 1981 Arkansas Creation-Science Trial. When Darwin published his
Origins of Species in 1859, he initiated a debate about the origin
of human life and the role of God in human affairs scarcely
equalled in world history. Smout traces the response of Biblical
creationists to Darwinian evolutionists. Looking carefully at the
stories told and the tactics used by both sides, he analyzes all
available accounts of the original debate culminating in the 1860
Huxley/Wilberforce debate, the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, and the
1981 Arkansas Creation-Science Trial. Professor Smout argues that
both sides in the controversy use various language strategies to
persuade the culture as a whole to see the world that they see and
to enact their position as public policy. As Smout illustrates, the
problem is that both sides rely on an inadequate conception of
language as a namer of timeless realities rather than as an
instrument used by human communities to achieve their goals. He
attempts to articulate a better view of language and to show how it
might help solve intractable arguments such as this. He argues that
we should see language as a tool that shapes what we see, and
definitions of terms as political acts rather than statements of
fact made by disciplinary experts. An important analysis for
students and scholars in rhetoric, history, religion, and
sociology.
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