Biology Reference
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24
Davi Johnson, “Dawkins' Myth: The Religious Dimensions of Evolutionary
Discourse,”
Journal of Communication and Religion
29 (2006): 285-314.
25
Richard Dawkins,
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004), 4-6.
26
Johnson, “Dawkins' Myth,” 293-96.
27
Dawkins,
Ancestor's Tal e
, 8.
28
Dawkins,
Ancestor's Tal e
, 111.
29
F. Newport, “Half of Americans Believe in Creationist Origins of Man,”
Gal-
lup Poll Monthly
336 (1993): 24-28. The scientific account of human evolution
is rejected by 47% of Americans and 53% of Canadians in favor of the bibli-
cal story of creation. In the United States, a quarter of all college graduates
believe that “God created man pretty much in his present form at one time
within the last 10,000 years.” A more recent poll by
Newsweek
, December 4,
2004, shows a similar percentage of doubters, 45% in total.
30
Thomas M. Lessl, “The Priestly Voice,”
Quarterly Journal of Speech
75 (1989):
183-97.
31
Ronald C. Tobey,
The American Ideology of National Science, 1919-1930
(Pitts-
burgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971).
32
Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
, trans. Richard Heffner (New
York: Penguin, 1984), 164-65.
33
Émile Durkheim,
Rules of Sociological Method
, trans. Sarah A. Solovay and
John H. Mueller, ed. George E. G. Catlin (Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1964);
Émile Durkheim,
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
, trans. Joseph Ward
Swain (London: Allen & Unwin, 1915).
34
Durkheim,
Elementary Forms
, 419.
35
Émile Durkheim,
Suicide: A Study in Sociology
, trans. J. A. Spaulding and G.
Simpson (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951), 312.
36
Clifford Geertz,
The Interpretation of Cultures
(New York: Basic Books, 1973),
131.
37
Geertz,
Interpretation
, 127.
38
Berger,
Sacred Canopy,
11.
39
Durkheim,
Elementary Forms
, 422.
40
Geertz,
Interpretation
, 126.
41
Geertz,
Interpretation
, 126.
42
Mary Douglas,
Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology
(London: Routledge &
Kegan Paul, 1975), xvi. Durkheim does appear to acknowledge this himself
when he states that “the fundamental categories of thought, and consequently
of science, are of religious origin.”
Elementary Forms,
466.
