Darwin and Darwinism
Subtitle: revolutionary insights concerning man, nature, religion, and society.
By: Edited and with an introd. by Harold Y. Vanderpool.
Series: Problems in European civilization
Publisher: Heath
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Lexington, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882; Evolution; Social evolution
Table of contents: title: Genesis 1:1-2:9, 2:15-25; the Biblical story of creation.; title: Perowne, J. J. S. The character of religion.; title: Dana, J. D. The character of science.; title: Paley, W. Proof of God from the world of biology.; title: Cowper, W. Hymns to the God of nature.; title: Wordsworth, W. Nature as moral guide and divine presence.; title: Psalms 8:1, 3-9; Romans 1:18-20, 28-32; mankind's proximity to the angels.; title: Kirby, W. The noblest of species.; title: Darwin, C. A new, revolutionary world view.; title: Wilberforce, S. and Sedgwick, A. Traditional religion and science oppose evolution.; title: Huxley, T. H. Orthodoxy scotched, if not slain.; title: Stephen, L. Spreading agnosticism.; title: Gray, A. The compatibility of evolution and religion.; title: Powell, B. The validation of religion apart from rational proof.; title: Driver, S. R. A new understanding of the Bible.; title: Hardy, T. and Tennyson, A. L. The new faces of nature.; title: Darwin, C. The natural evolution of man and morality.; title: Wallace, A. R. The inadequacies of Darwinian evolution.; title: Fiske, J. The ascent of man.; title: Huxley, T. H. Secular humanism.; title: Hardy, T. and Swinburne, A. C. Mankind's post-Darwinian status: loneliness or liberation?; title: Spencer, H. Society conditioned by evolution.; title: Huxley, T. H. Society modified according to human standards.; title: Suggestions for additional reading (p. 216-220)