The problem of war : Darwinism, Christianity, and their battle to understand human conflict / Michae...
The problem of war : Darwinism, Christianity, and their battle to understand human conflict / Michae...
The problem of war : Darwinism, Christianity, and their battle to understand human conflict / Michael Ruse.
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New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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G 2019/2986
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English
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xiv, 261 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Darwinian evolutionary theory -- Darwinism as religion -- Two visions of war -- Darwinism after Darwin -- Onward Christian soldiers -- The biology of war -- Realists and pacifists -- From Hitler to UNESCO -- The bomb and Vietnam -- Darwinian theory comes of age -- Rival paradigms -- Moving forward.
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New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Date Published
[2019]
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"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 t...
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The problem of war : Darwinism, Christianity, and their battle to understand human conflict / Michael Ruse.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index.
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G 2019/2986
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74VKVB8MGLm3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVB8MGLm3
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9780190867577
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303.4
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991024242009002626
