Preadamite Theory and the Marriage of Science and Religion: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 82, Part 3)

by David N. Livingstone

Among the harmonizing tactics that have been deployed to keep alive the marriage of science and religion, is the preadamite theory -- the idea that human beings existed before the biblical Adam. This overview of the preadamite attempts to reveal how inter-penetrative scientific and religious discourses have been. Contents: (1) Preadamism (PA) and Pagan Chronology; and The Peyrerean Formula; (2) PA, Polygenism, and Race; Reconciling Ethnology and Theology;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871698234
• ISBN13: 9780871698230
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 81 Pages