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Paranoid science : the Christian Right's war on reality /

Explores the Christian Right's fierce opposition to science, explaining how and why its leaders came to see scientific truths as their enemy. For decades, the Christian Right's high-profile clashes with science have made national headlines. From attempts to ban the teaching of evolution in...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alumkal, Antony William, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2017.
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505 0 |a Preface -- Introduction. Paranoid-style politics -- Updating Hofstadter's theory -- The paranoid style in American evangelicalism -- The Christan Right within the American evangelical elite -- The Christian Right's paranoid science agenda -- The Christian Right's war on reality -- 1. Fear of a Darwinist Culture : The Intelligent Design Movement. Protestantism and Enlightenment "faith" in science -- Intelligent design takes flight -- Phillip E. Johnson's paranoid vision. Stage 1 : Laying the foundation ; Stage 2 : A fully paranoid worldview ; Stage 3 : Reaching new audiences ; Stage 4 : Twenty-first-century optimism ; Stage 5 : Intelligent design in the post-9/11 era ; Stage 6 : Engaging the new atheism ; Conclusion : Intelligent design's paranoid foundation -- Reaching for scientific credibility -- Intelligent design on a cosmic scale -- Intelligent design and its critics -- Intelligent design's atheist "frenemies" -- The Dover Trial -- Intelligent design goes Hollywood -- The continued battle over public school curricula -- Intelligent design's identity crisis. Division of labor ; Discursive tacking ; Distinguishing between supposed primary and secondary missions ; Conclusion : Even worse than a Trojan Horse -- Reality check : How secular is the academy? -- Unmasking "theistic realism" -- Fair-weather postmodernists -- Conclusion -- 2. Sex, Sin, and Science : The Persistence of the Ex-Gay Movement. Psychiatry and homosexuality -- The formation of NARTH -- Ex-gay ministries -- The evangelical embrace of "change" -- The ex-gay literature : Religious and scientific arguments. Countering the use of science by Christians who affirm homosexuality ; The Bible as a source of data on sexuality ; Scientific proof that homosexuality is contrary to God's will ; Rejecting mainstream psychiatry and psychology -- The ex-gay movement's identity dilemma. Division of labor ; Distinguishing between supposed primary and secondary missions -- Managing failure -- Selective skepticism of psychological theories -- Creationist assumptions -- Lies, damn lies, and statistics -- Conclusion -- 3. "Our Way or a Brave New World" : Christian Right Bioethics. Stem cell research : Basic issues -- From abortion to embryonic stem cells -- Arguments against embryonic stem cell research and cloning -- The dangers of eugenics and transhumanism -- Euthanasia's slippery slope -- Why the slippery slope is slippery logic -- Is Oregon the new Netherlands? And is the Netherlands as bad as the Christian Right claims? -- Moral hypocrisy -- Conclusion -- 4. Seeing Red Over Green Evangelicals : The Crusade Against Environmentalism. American evangelics and the environment in the twentieth century -- The battle for the evangelical center -- Explaining the evangelical climate change fault line -- The Cornwall Alliance : Core beliefs before the Green Dragon. Dominion theology ; God designed and sustains the Earth ; Fighting climate change will hurt the poor ; Climate change skepticism -- The Cornucopian connection -- Enter the Green Dragon -- Assessing the evangelical rank and file -- The impossible defense of dominion theology -- Still more fair-weather postmodernists -- Beisner's "total" fabrication -- Conclusion -- Conclusion. The Purpose-Driven Life of unreality -- The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind revisited -- Looking forward -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author. 
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