Overview

One in the series New Dialogues in Philosophy, edited by Dale Jacquette, Michael Ruse, a leading expert on Charles Darwin, presents a fictional dialogue among characters with sharply contrasting positions regarding the tensions between science and religious belief. Ruse's main characters—an atheist scientist, a skeptical historian and philosopher of science, a relatively liberal female Episcopalian priest, and a Southern Baptist pastor who denies evolution—passionately argue about pressing issues, in a context framed within a television show: ""Science versus God— Who is Winning?"" These characters represent the different positions concerning science and religion often held today: evolution versus creation, the implications of Christian beliefs upon technological advances in medicine, and the everlasting debate over free will.

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Ingeniously, in Evolution and Religion, Michael Ruse deftly tackles the evolution-religion controversies by devising a spirited dialogue among five mavens with disparate views. Highly entertaining as well as instructive.--Ayala, Francisco J.

Michael Ruse portrays a dispute that concerns the proper relationship between science and religion, about which the several clamorous representatives clash, often in comedic confusion. Yet from the din emerges rational clarity about the epistemic riches of science and the moral significance of religion. Reading Ruse rouses one from the lethargy of those boring sermons preached either from the pulpit or the laboratory.--Robert J. Richards

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Michael Ruse is Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science at Florida State University. Ruse has received two honorary doctorates, is a fellow in the Royal Society of Canada, and is a recipient of the John Templeton Book Prize. He is the author of over 25 books, with many on Charles Darwin and related themes, including the widely reviewed Taking Darwin Seriously.

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