02416 a2200337 4500 1138119369 20250317100402.0 250312042015GB 6 eng 9781138119369 Taylor & Francis GBP 45.99 BB 01 eng QRD thema QRAM3 thema GTM thema 1FK bisac HRG bic HRAM3 bic GTB bic 1FK bisac REL032000 bisac SOC008000 bisac SOC053000 bisac 294.524 bisac C. Mackenzie Brown Hindu Perspectives on Evolution Darwin, Dharma, and Design 1 Oxford Routledge 20150804 276 p Providing new insights into the contemporary creationist-evolution debates, this book looks at the Hindu cultural-religious traditions of India, the Hindu Dharma traditions. By focusing on the interaction of religion and science in a Hindu context, it offers a global context for understanding contemporary creationist-evolution conflicts and tensions utilizing a critical analysis of Hindu perspectives on these issues. The cultural and political as well as theological nature of these conflicts is illustrated by drawing attention to parallels with contemporary Islamic and Buddhist responses to modern science and Darwinism. The book explores various ancient and classical Hindu models to explain the origin of the universe encompassing creationist as well as evolutionary—but non-Darwinian—interpretations of how we came to be. Complex schemes of cosmic evolution were developed, alongside creationist proofs for the existence of God utilizing distinctly Hindu versions of the design argument. After examining diverse elements of the Hindu Dharmic traditions that laid the groundwork for an ambivalent response to Darwinism when it first became known in India, the book highlights the significance of the colonial context. Analysing critically the question of compatibility between traditional Dharmic theories of knowledge and the epistemological assumptions underlying contemporary scientific methodology, the book raises broad questions regarding the frequently alleged harmony of Hinduism, the eternal Dharma, with modern science, and with Darwinian evolution in particular. 1369 1369