TITLE

Neo-Darwinism and Religion

AUTHOR(S)

Goodheart, Eugene

PUB. DATE

March 2008

SOURCE

Society;Mar/Apr2008, Vol. 45 Issue 2, p125

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

In recent decades, the humanities have been in thrall to postmodern skepticism, whereas Darwinism, brimming with confidence in the genuine progress they have made in the sciences of biology and psychology, have set their sights on rescuing the humanities from the ravages of postmodernism. In their attempt to formulate a biological theory of religion, the neo-Darwinists (Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, among others) have moved beyond their area of competence, revealing themselves to be inverted fundamentalists. Ignorant of the long and rich history of religious thought, they commit an ideology, rather than a science.

ACCESSION #

30055970

Tags: EVOLUTION (Biology);  NATURAL selection;  EVOLUTION -- Religious aspects;  POSTMODERNISM;  SCIENCE & the humanities;  RELIGION & science

 

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