The Problem of War: Darwinism, Christianity, and Their Battle to Understand Human Conflict
- ISBN-10
- 0190867574
- ISBN-13
- 9780190867577
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-11-12
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Michael Ruse
Description
"Darwinism and war: science or religion? argues that the different perspectives of Christians and Darwinians on the nature and causes of warfare reveal them to be playing the same game, offering not so much scientific or empirical explanations but rival value-laden analyses, suggesting we have less a science-religion conflict and more one between two rival religious visions - Christianity and a form of secular Darwinian humanism"--
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