Among the Creationists : Dispatches from the Anti-Evolutionist Front Line
Jason. Rosenhouse
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | New York : : Oxford University Press, , c2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (272 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; PART I: Vignettes; 1 Studies in Insularity; 2 Showdown at Subway; 3 The Prospects for Agreeable Disagreements; 4 How I Got Here; 5 My Problems with Religion; PART II: The Creation Mega-Conference, Lynchburg, Virginia, July 2005; 6 An Introduction to Evolution; 7 An Introduction to Creationism; 8 Literalism and Other Canards; 9 Browsing the Bookstore; 10 The Best Evidence That God Created; 11 Fossils, Human and Otherwise; 12 On Information; 13 Movies and Television; PART III: The "Darwin vs. Design" Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee, March 2007. - 14 The Marginality of Genesis 115 Intelligent Design vs. Young-Earth Creationism; 16 Rhetorical Legerdemain; 17 Conversion Stories; 18 On Religious Experience; 19 Creation as Fishtank; 20 Methodological Naturalism; 21 Irreducible Complexity; PART IV: Visiting the Creation Museum, Petersburg, Kentucky, August 2010; 22 Creation Cinema; 23 Creation and Corruption; 24 Groaning under the Curse; 25 From Catastrophe to Consummation; 26 What Does Genesis Mean?; 27 Theological Phlogiston; 28 Why I Love Being Jewish. - PART V: The Sixth International Conference on Creationism, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 200829 Building the Creation Model; 30 Inevitable Humans?; 31 Unpleasantness; 32 Conversations in Bookstores; 33 Is the Earth at the Center of the Universe?; 34 Things I Learned at the Banquet; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. - Why do so many Americans reject the modern theory of evolution? Seeking answers, mathematician Jason Rosenhouse became a regular attendee at creationist conferences and other gatherings. After ten years of attending events like the giant Creation Mega-Conference in Lynchburg, Virginia, and visiting sites like the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, and after hundreds of mostly friendly conversations with creationists of varying stripes, he has emerged with a story to tell, a story that goes well beyond the usual stereotypes of Bible-thumping fanatics railing against coldly rational scient
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| ISBN | 9780199744633
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