TY - BOOK ID - 841308 TI - Science and religion in the nineteenth century PY - 1984 SN - 0521244021 0521286689 0511553617 0511867522 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy of science KW - Religious studies KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - 215 KW - Religion and science KW - Christianity and science KW - Geology KW - Geology and religion KW - Science KW - Science and religion KW - Godsdienst en wetenschap KW - Religious aspects KW - Religion and science. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:841308 AB - Cambridge English Prose Texts consists of volumes devoted to substantial selections from non-fictional English prose of the late sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. The series provides students, primarily though not exclusively those of English literature, with the opportunity of reading significant prose writers who, for a variety of reasons (not least their generally being unavailable in suitable editions) are rarely studied, but whose influence on their times was very considerable. This volume contains selections from nineteenth-century writers involved in the debate about the relation of science and religion. It centres on the Darwinian controversy, with extracts from The Origin Of Species and The Descent of Man, and from opponents and supporters of Darwin. This controversy is placed in the wider context of the earlier debates on geology and evolution; the relation of science to Natural Theology; the effect of Biblical Criticism on the interpretation of Genesis; and the professionalisation of science by aggressively agnostic scientists. ER -