Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) PDF
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MONKEY TRIALS AND GORILLA SERMONS new histories of science, technology, and medicine series editors MargaretC.JacobandSpencerR.Weart p e t e r j . b o w l e r MONKEY TRIALS AND GORILLA SERMONS EVOLUTION AND CHRISTIANITY FROM DARWIN TO INTELLIGENT DESIGN HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS LONDON, ENGLAND Copyright©2007bythePresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollege Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica FirstHarvardUniversityPresspaperbackedition,2009. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Bowler,PeterJ. Monkeytrialsandgorillasermons:evolutionandChristianityfromDarwin tointelligentdesign/PeterJ.Bowler. p. cm.—(Newhistoriesofscience,technology,andmedicine) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-674-02615-5(cloth:alk.paper) ISBN978-0-674-03220-0(pbk.) 1.Creationism. 2.Evolution(Biology)—Religiousaspects—Christianity. I.Title. BS651.B755 2007 231.7(cid:2)652—dc22 2007011200 c o n t e n t s Preface • vii 1. TheMythsofHistory (cid:129) 1 2. SettingtheScene (cid:129) 30 3. DarwinandHisBulldog (cid:129) 79 4. TheEclipseofDarwinism (cid:129) 134 5. ModernDebates (cid:129) 189 Bibliography (cid:129) 231 Index (cid:129) 251 p r e f a c e My purpose in writing a book on such a controversial topic is ex- plained in the first chapter and need not be repeated here. Suffice ittosaythatIhavebeenworkingonthehistoryofDarwinismand its implications for most of my career,and I hope that a balanced historicalaccountof thedebateoverthetheory’sreligiousimplica- tions will be of some interest to those engaged in the current con- troversies. Perhaps by writing from a perspective shaped by resi- dence outside North America, I can shed some light on the less confrontationalaspectsoftheinteraction. Mostofwhatfollowsisadistillationofmyownandotherschol- ars’workoverthepastyears.If thereisanythingoriginalhere,itis my brief foray into the work of the early twentieth-century Mod- ernistswithintheAmericanchurches,whosewritingsareoftenne- glected in accounts of the period defined in the popular imagina- tionbytheScopes“MonkeyTrial.” FortheirhelpandinspirationIamparticularlyindebtedtoJohn Brooke,JimMoore,RonNumbers,TedDavis,andMichaelRuse.I amalsogratefultoSpencerWeartandtwoanonymousrefereesfor theircommentsontheoriginalmanuscript. MONKEY TRIALS AND GORILLA SERMONS
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