Why Are There Still Creationists?

Human Evolution and the Ancestors

Why Are There Still Creationists?
Jonathan Marks
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2 Jul 2021 UK
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9781509547470
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The evidence for the ancestry of the human species among the apes is overwhelming. But the facts are never "just" facts. Human evolution has always been a value-laden scientific theory and, as anthropology makes clear, the ancestors are always sacred. They may be ghosts, or corpses, or fossils, or a naked couple in a garden, but the idea that you are part of a lineage is a powerful and universal one. Meaning and morals are at play, which most certainly transcend science and its quest for maximum accuracy. With clarity and wit, Jonathan Marks shows that the creation/evolution debate is not science versus religion. After all, modern anti-evolutionists reject humanistic scholarship about the Bible even more fundamentally than they reject the science of our simian ancestry. Widening horizons on both sides of the debate, Marks makes clear that creationism is a theological, not a scientific, debate and that thinking perceptively about values and meanings should not be an alternative to thinking about science - it should be a key part of it.
"When the gadfly of contemporary anthropology turns his attention to the creationism/evolution controversy, neither creationists nor their foes emerge unscathed. Insightful and delightful. "Glenn Branch, Deputy Director, National Center for Science Education"This deeply thoughtful history of ideas engages evolutionary science, biblical studies, and contemporary culture to tackle head on the book' s title question. In unfurling his persuasive argument, Marks shows that science and religion are both dogmatic and demonstrates the unexpected ways in which scholars of science and religion should be ' allies' . His ability to push past sweeping dismissals to actual facts is unparalleled. "Candida Moss, Professor of Theology, University of Birmingham
Jonathan Marks is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781509547470
Published: 2 Jul 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Polity Press
Publisher: Polity Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 214mm
Width: 153mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 224g
Pages: 112

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