Modern ideas of evolution as related to revelation and science

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Modern ideas of evolution as related to revelation and science

John William Dawson

(Cambridge library collection, . Religion)

Cambridge University Press, 2009

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"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso

Facsim. of 4th ed. published: London : Religious Tract Society, [1890]

Includes bibliographical references

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Description

Darwin's theory of evolution generated a storm of controversy within the scientific community in the later nineteenth century, and Sir J. William Dawson, a renowned geologist of his time, was one of those who vehemently opposed it. In Modern Ideas of Evolution as related to Revelation and Science, first published in 1890, Dawson maintains that it is religion alone that forms a stable base for all new ideas. He dismisses the theory of evolution as a crude and heretical hypothesis, inconsistent with religion and undeserving of acceptance. If adopted as proven truth, he argues, it would lead to unscientific and unspiritual degeneration of the mind. More than a century later, evolution is generally accepted but still not 'proven', and the debates continue. Dawson's energetic polemic remains a key document for historians of science concerned with the Victorian reception of Darwinism and the rise of evolutionary theory.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Present aspects of the question
  • 2. What is evolution? 3. The origin of life
  • 4. The apparition of species in geological time
  • 5. Monistic evolution
  • 6. Agnostic evolution
  • 7. Theistic evolution
  • 8. God in nature
  • 9. Man in nature
  • 10 General conclusions
  • Appendix 1
  • Appendix 2.

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  • NCID
    BB02912239
  • ISBN
    • 9781108000239
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge [England]
  • Pages/Volumes
    240 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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