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Rhetorical darwinism : religion, evolution, and the scientific identity /
Everything evolves, science tells us, including the public language used by scientists to sustain and perpetuate their work. Harkening back to the Protestant Reformation-a time when the promise of scientific inquiry was intimately connected with a deep faith in divine Providence-Thomas Lessl traces...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waco, Tex. :
Baylor University Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Studies in rhetoric and religion ;
11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Everything evolves, science tells us, including the public language used by scientists to sustain and perpetuate their work. Harkening back to the Protestant Reformation-a time when the promise of scientific inquiry was intimately connected with a deep faith in divine Providence-Thomas Lessl traces the evolving role and public identity of science in the West. As the Reformation gave way to the Enlightenment, notions of Providence evolved into progress. History's divine plan could now be found in nature, and scientists became history's new prophets. With Darwin and the emergence of ev. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 322 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781602584051 1602584052 |