Evolution and creationism : a documentary and reference guide / Christian C. Young and Mark A. Largent.

Author/creator Young, Christian C.
Other author Largent, Mark A.
Format Book
Publication InfoWestport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
Descriptionxviii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Evolution (Biology)
Creationism.

Contents Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Evolution before Darwin's On the origin of species -- Zoonomia / Erasmus Darwin (1794-1796) -- Zoological philosophy / Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1809) -- Discourse on the revolutionary upheavals on the surface of the globe and on the changes which they have produced in the animal kingdom / Baron Georges Cuvier (1825) -- Natural theology / William Paley -- Vestiges of the natural history of creation / Robert Chambers (1844) -- 2. Darwin's theory of natural selection -- The voyage of the Beagle / Charles Darwin (1839) -- On the origin of species / Charles Darwin (1858) -- "Letters and reminiscences" / Alfred Russel Wallace (1916) -- "On a piece of chalk" / Thomas H. Huxley (1868) -- The descent of man / Charles Darwin (1871) -- 3. Reviews of Darwin's work -- "Design versus necessity : discussion between two readers of Darwin's treatise On the origin of species, upon its natural theology" / Asa Gray 1860) -- Essay on classification / Louis Agassiz -- The antiquity of man / Charles Lyell (1863) -- "The origin of species [review article]" / Fleeming Jenkin (1867) -- "Review of Darwin's Origin of species" / Samuel Wilberforce --
Contents 4. Evolution and anti-evolution in the interphase -- Darwinism to-day / Vernon Kellogg (1907) -- "Evolutionary faith and modern doubts" / William Bateson (1921) -- "William Bateson on Darwinism" / Henry Fairfield Osborn (1922) -- "Why we must be evolutionists" / J. Arthur Thomson (1928) -- "Some aspects of evolution" / Richard Goldschmidt (1933) -- 6. The rise of fundamentalism and its opposition to evolution -- World's Christian Fundamentals Association Doctrinal Statement (1919) -- Headquarters nights : a record of conversations and experiences at the headquarters of the German army in France and Belgium / Vernon Kellogg (1917) -- Butler Act, Public Acts of the State of Tennessee (1925) -- John Thomas Scopes v. the State, Supreme Court of Tennessee (1926) -- "Summary argument in Scopes trial" / William Jennings Bryan (1925) -- "A brief reply by Clarence Darrow, likens Bryan speech to lawyer's argumentative statement" (1925) -- American inquisitors : a commentary on Dayton and Chicago / Walter Lippmann (1928) --
Contents 6. The modern evolutionary synthesis -- "The God of evolution" / Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1953) -- "Christianity and Darwin's revolution" / Reinhold Niebuhr (1958) -- "Darwin and the idea of evolution" / Julian Huxley (1958) -- "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution" / Theodosius Dobzhansky (1973) -- Repeal of the Butler Act (1967) -- Epperson v. Arkansas (1968) -- 7. From equal time to the de-emphasis of evolution in American schools -- Life / George Gaylord Simpson, Colin S. Pittendrigh, and Lewis H. Tiffany (1958) -- "Evolution, creation, and the public schools" / Henry Morris (1973) -- "The mathematical impossibility of evolution" / Henry Morris (1972) -- McLean v. Arkansas / William R. Overton (1982) -- "Science at the bar : causes for concern" / Larry Laudan (1982) -- "Pro judice" / Michael Ruse (1982) -- "Truth cannot contradict truth" / Pope John Paul II (1996) -- "The new antievolutionism" / Michael Ruse (1993) -- 8. Intelligent design and the school board debates -- Darwin's black box : a biochemical challenge to evolution / Michael Behe (1996) -- "They're here!" / Michael Ruse (1989) -- Defeating Darwinism by opening minds / Phillip E. Johnson (1997) -- "The Wedge document" / The Discovery Institute, Center for the Renewal of Science & Culture (1998) -- Kitzmiller v. Dover / John E. Jones III (2005) -- Resources : Electronic and print -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [291]-295) and index.
LCCN 2007010682
ISBN9780313339530 (alk. paper)
ISBN0313339538 (alk. paper)