Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Science, Evolution, and Creationism
The chapter headings of Science, Evolution, and Creationism show that its authors honor Stephen Jay Gould's NOMA principle. The NOMA principle presents two "magisteria" (science and religion) as non-overlapping ideas which is backed up by the chapter and section headings of this book. The book essentially divides itself into two separate, main sections. The first section is very thorough about presenting the truth, evidence, and intelligence of evolution. All of the ideas, theories, and facts accounted for by evolution are presented by the section titles of the book in a very convincing, positive manner. The second section, though also convincing, presents the creationist views as something completely separate from the studies of evolution. The titles for this section clearly describe creationism as rejecting, unsupportive, and ultimately incomparable to that of evolution. The two large sections of the book each present their claims in different lights, which suggests that these two magisteria of the NOMA principle shouldn't even be in opposition because they are so different.
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