The Death of Adam: Evolution and Its Impact on Western Thought by John C. Greene

With the reissue of this well-known book, John Greene, in a new preface, puts into present-day perspectives the concepts of evolution and static creationism. Writing as a historian, not as a biologist, theologian or philosopher, Professor John Greene describes analytically and synthetically the tremendous revolution in human thought that took place in the two centuries separating Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. Greene connects the progress in biology with similar progress in astronomy, geology, paleontology, and anthropology and demonstrates the impact of the newly born mechanical view of nature on these sciences.