Author:
Rosenhouse, Jason.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Descriptionxiv, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:1. Vignettes -- Studies in insularity -- Showdown at Subway -- The prospects for agreeable disagreements -- How I got here -- My problems with religion -- 2. The creation mega-conference, Lynchburg, Virginia, July 2005 -- An introduction to evolution -- An introduction to creationism -- Literalism and other canards -- Browsing the bookstore -- The best evidence that God created -- Fossils, human and otherwise -- On information -- Movies and television -- 3. The "Darwin vs. Design" conference, Knoxville, Tennessee, March 2007 -- The marginality of Genesis 1 -- Intelligent design vs. young-earth creationism -- Rhetorical legerdemain -- Conversion stories -- On religious experience -- Creation as fishtank -- Methodological naturalism -- Irreducible complexity -- 4. Visiting the creation museum, Petersburg, Kentucky, August 2010 -- Creation cinema -- Creation and corruption -- Groaning under the curse -- From catastrophe to consummation -- What does Genesis mean? -- Theological phlogiston -- Why I love being Jewish -- 5. The sixth international conference on creationism, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 2008 -- Building the creation model -- Inevitable humans? -- Unpleasantness -- Conversations in bookstores -- Is the earth at the center of the universe? -- Things I learned at the banquet.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-249) and index.
