By C. Mackenzie Brown
Providing new insights into the modern creationist-evolution debates, this e-book seems on the Hindu cultural-religious traditions of India, the Hindu Dharma traditions. by way of targeting the interplay of faith and technological know-how in a Hindu context, it bargains an international context for figuring out modern creationist-evolution conflicts and tensions using a serious research of Hindu views on those concerns. The cultural and political in addition to theological nature of those conflicts is illustrated by way of drawing cognizance to parallels with modern Islamic and Buddhist responses to fashionable technology and Darwinism.
The booklet explores a number of old and classical Hindu versions to provide an explanation for the beginning of the universe encompassing creationist in addition to evolutionary—but non-Darwinian—interpretations of ways we got here to be. advanced schemes of cosmic evolution have been built, along creationist proofs for the life of God using fantastically Hindu types of the layout argument. After reading different components of the Hindu Dharmic traditions that laid the foundation for an ambivalent reaction to Darwinism while it first turned identified in India, the ebook highlights the importance of the colonial context. Analysing seriously the query of compatibility among conventional Dharmic theories of data and the epistemological assumptions underlying modern clinical technique, the publication increases extensive questions in regards to the often alleged concord of Hinduism, the everlasting Dharma, with glossy technology, and with Darwinian evolution in particular.
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