Constructing the Beginning: Discourses of Creation Science

ISBN-13: 9780805823462 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 248 str.

Simon Locke

Opis

Creation science is the target of much attack these days from both within and outside the orthodox scientific community. However, this text does not provide an attack on creationism - nor a defence. The author's interest is not in creationism, but rather, it is in the questions of the role and significance of science in modernity or the public understanding of science. Locke's approach to this issue is a discursive and rhetorical one. Creationism is treated as a case study of the argumentative engagement between science and non-science which - in his view - is as central to the commonsense lifeworld as it is to the lives of its intellectuals. An important dimension of the public meaning of science in modernity is its limits and its relations with other modes of thought and belief, which continue to survive as discourses in the wider culture. Creationism is merely one example of this general feature.

Recenzje

"This groundbreaking study was originally part of a PhD thesis in communication at a British university....The end result is a rich interplay of ideas and analysis that is helpful in understanding the rhetorical complexities in conversations about origins, the limits of scientific knowledge, and the limitations inherent in 'scientific' discourse."
—Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith

"Simon Locke's book pleases me very much, not because the author has mastered the particulars of creationist literature (which he has), but because he uses creationism as a case study to explore something far more important than the particulars of creationist thought--namely, relations between modernity and science."
—Social Studies of Science

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. Let There Be Rationalization. Creating "Creation Science." Science--After Its Kind(s). Why God Made Evolutionists. Constructing "The Beginning." Science--Variation in Species. Rhetoric as Usual.

O autorze

Locke, Simon