After the monkey trial
Subtitle: evangelical scientists and a new creationism
By: Christopher M. Rios
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780823256679
Subjects: Bible and evolution; Evangelikale Bewegung; Creationism; Evolution (Biology); Evolutionstheorie; Kreationismus; Christianity
Description: Studies two groups of scientists in the 20th century, who tried to bring about pro-evolutionary evangelicalism in the US and the UK.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Ebb and flow: Evangelicals and evolution, 1860s to 1940s; title: A society for the correlation of science and the Bible: the American Scientific Afflilation, 1940s to 1965; title: Unexpected resistance: the Research Scientists' Christian Fellowship, 1940s to 1965; title: An increasingly powerful movement: modern creationism to the 1980s; title: Against the tide: the American Scientific Afflilation, 1965 to 1985; title: A new apologetic: the Research Scientists' Christian Fellowship, 1965 to 1985; title: Conclusion.