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Living with Darwin - Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith (Paperback)
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Living with Darwin - Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith (Paperback)
Series: Philosophy In Action
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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.
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