Why Are There Still Creationists?: Human Evolution and the Ancestors

by Jonathan Marks

Book Overview

The evidence for the ancestry of the human species among the apes is overwhelming. But the facts are never "just" facts. Human evolution has always been a value-laden scientific theory and, as anthropology makes clear, the ancestors are always sacred. They may be ghosts, or corpses, or fossils, or a naked couple in a garden, but the idea that you are part of a lineage is a powerful and universal one. Meaning and morals are at play, which most certainly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509547479
• ISBN13: 9781509547470
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"