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Darwinism as Religion

What Literature Tells Us about Evolution

by Michael Ruse

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Darwinism as Religion argues that the theory of evolution given by Charles Darwin in the nineteenth century has always functioned as much as a secular form of religion as anything purely scientific. Through the words of novelists and poets, Michael Ruse argues that Darwin took us from the secure world of Christian faith into a darker, less friendly world of chance and lack of meaning.

English literature, history and criticism, 19th centuryLiterature and scienceReligion and literatureNature in literatureReligion in literatureReligion and scienceDarwin, charles, 1809-1882English literatureHistory and criticismHistoryEvolution (Biology) in literatureInfluence