Critique of intelligent design
Subtitle: materialism versus creationism from antiquity to the present
By: John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York.
Contributors: Clark, Brett.; York, Richard.
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781583671733; 9781583671740
Subjects: Intelligent design (Teleology); Creationism; Materialism
Description: Critique of Intelligent Design is a compelling account of the debate between materialism and religion as well as an overview of the contemporary fight concerning nature, science, history, morality, and knowledge. The authors demonstrate how historical materialism is a crucial social foundation from which to confront intelligent design. They provide a fascinating account of the development of science in opposition to the proponents of "received wisdom."--Publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The wedge strategy; title: Epicurus's swerve; title: Enlightenment materialism and natural theology; title: Marx's critique of heaven and critique of earth; title: On the origin of darwinism; title: Freud and the illusions of religion; title: In defense of natural science; title: Replaying the tape of life; title: The end of the wedge.