Jonathan Marks - Why Are There Still Creationists?

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2 Title Page Why Are There Still Creationists? Human Evolution and the Ancestors Jonathan Marks polity

3 Copyright Copyright © Jonathan Marks 2021 The right of Jonathan Marks to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2021 by Polity Press Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Polity Press 101 Station Landing Suite 300 Medford, MA 02155, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4748-7 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition. For further information on Polity, visit our website: politybooks.com

4 Acknowledgments Acknowledgments This book was way too much fun to write. It was completed while I was a Director’s Fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. I am very grateful to Brad Gregory, Meghan Sullivan, Don Stelluto, Carolyn Sherman, Kristian Olsen, and the rest of the NDIAS, for their support and collegiality. Parts of this book were presented in seminar there, and for participating in the stimulating and helpful discussion that followed, I thank Ani Aprahamian, Dylan Belton, Eileen Hunt Botting, Eric Bugyis, Fr. Terrence Ehrman, David Bentley Hart, Faisal Husain, Robert Latiff, Yulia Minets, Cara Ocobock, Matt Ravosa, Phillip Sloan, and Joshua Stuchlik. For their especially valuable comments on the manuscript I thank Thomas Bolin, Neil Arner, and Sarah Morice Brubaker. At UNC Charlotte I have benefitted from the wisdom of my co-instructor Joanne Maguire and my colleague Gregg Starrett. The lunchtime discussions with Mark Pizzato, Trevor Pearce, Bill Chu, Ron Lunsford, and Mike Corwin were also both fun and useful in shaping this book. It has been a pleasure to interact with biblical scholars and theologians over the past few years, and I am particularly intellectually indebted to Celia Deane-Drummond and Agustín Fuentes and the other participants in their stimulating conference, “Humility, Wisdom, and Grace in Deep Time” back in 2017, which resulted in a wonderful volume called Theology and Evolutionary Anthropology . Thanks to my editor at Polity, Jonathan Skerrett, for seeing the manuscript through from beginning to end. Thanks to Karen Strier for decades of insights. For their encouraging notes and comments I thank the reviewers, especially Reviewer #1. And as always, I am grateful for the support of my wife, Peta Katz, through the creative process and beyond.

5 Preface Notes

6 1 Introducing the Ancestors Rethinking Species and Scriptures Theology and Evolution Ancestry and Relatedness Notes

7 2 Scientific Stories of Our Ancestors Human Ancestry as the Dental and the Mental The Revolution in Communicating, Interacting, and Thinking The Evolution of Inequality Notes

8 3 Attacking Evolution Germans Against Darwinism The Scopes Trial Science Has Its Story, and I’ve Got Mine Intelligent Design: Old Wine in New Bottles Notes

9 4 Biblical Literalism and Rationalism Biblical Bibliographies, Geometry, and Figures of Speech Cultural Evolution and the Bible Notes

10 5 Myths of Science and Religion Why Are There Savages? Science and Religion Anti-Anti-Science Science and the Moral Realm Notes

11 6 Sacred Ancestry The Power of Ancestry Conclusions Notes

12 Bibliography

13 Index

14 End User License Agreement

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2 Table of Contents

3 Title Page

4 Copyright

5 Acknowledgments

6 Preface

7 Begin Reading

8 Bibliography

9 Index

10 End User License Agreement

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Jonathan Marks

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Copyright © Jonathan Marks 2021

The right of Jonathan Marks to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

First published in 2021 by Polity Press

Polity Press

65 Bridge Street

Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK

Polity Press

101 Station Landing

Suite 300

Medford, MA 02155, USA

All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.

ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4748-7

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate.

Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition.