A History Of The Warfare Of Science With Theology In Christendom
By Andrew Dickson White
Chapter I. From Creation To Evolution
I. The Visible Universe
- Ancient and medieval views regarding the manner of creation
- Regarding the matter of creation Regarding the time of creation
- Regarding the date of creation Regarding the Creator
- Regarding light and darkness
- Rise of the conception of an evolution: among the Chaldeans, The Hebrews, the Greeks, the Romans
- Its survival through the Middle Ages, despite the disfavour of the Church Its development in modern times.
- The nebular hypothesis and its struggle with theology
- The idea of evolution at last victorious
- Our sacred books themselves an illustration of its truth
- The true reconciliation of Science and Theology
II. Theological Teachings regarding the Animals and Man
- Ancient and medieval representations of the creation of man
- Literal acceptance of the book of Genesis by the Christian fathers
- By the Reformers
- By modern theologians
- Catholic and Protestant Theological reasoning as to the divisions of the animal kingdom
- The Physiologus, the Bestiaries, the Exempila
- Beginnings of sceptical observation Development of a scientific method in the study of Nature
- Breaking down of the theological theory of creation
III. Theological and Scientific Theories of an Evolution in Animated Nature
- Ideas of evolution among the ancients
- In the early Church
- In the medieval Church
- Development of these ideas from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries
- The work of De Maillet Of Linneus Of Buffon
- Contributions to the theory of evolution at the close of the eighteenth century
- The work of Treviranus and Lamarck Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Cuvier
- Development of the theory up to the middle of the nineteenth century
- The contributions of Darwin and Wallace
- The opposition of Agassiz
IV. The Final Effort of Theology
- Attacks on Darwin and his theories in England
- In America
- Formation of sacro-scientific organizations to combat the theory of evolution
- The attack in France
- In Germany
- Conversion of Lyell to the theory of evolution
- The attack on Darwin's Descent of Man Difference between this and the former attack
- Hostility to Darwinism in America
- Change in the tone of the controversy.
- Attempts at compromise Dying-out of opposition to evolution
- Last outbursts of theological hostility
- Final victory of evolution
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