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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 means of concentrating on the interplay of faith and technological know-how in a Hindu context, it deals a world 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 via drawing awareness to parallels with modern Islamic and Buddhist responses to trendy technological know-how and Darwinism.


The publication explores numerous historical and classical Hindu versions to provide an explanation for the foundation of the universe encompassing creationist in addition to evolutionary—but non-Darwinian—interpretations of ways we got here to be. complicated schemes of cosmic evolution have been constructed, along creationist proofs for the lifestyles of God using tremendously Hindu types of the layout argument. After studying diversified parts of the Hindu Dharmic traditions that laid the foundation for an ambivalent reaction to Darwinism whilst it first grew to become recognized in India, the e-book highlights the importance of the colonial context. Analysing severely the query of compatibility among conventional Dharmic theories of data and the epistemological assumptions underlying modern clinical technique, the e-book increases extensive questions concerning the often alleged concord of Hinduism, the everlasting Dharma, with glossy technological know-how, and with Darwinian evolution in particular.

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