Visions of Creation in the Late Modern Age

Over the past hundred years, the tools offered by science have quite often been presumed to be in fundamental conflict with those offered by religion, especially in accounting for how the universe came to be as it is today. This study examines four popular versions of the creation story and the manner in which their principal proponents have, over the past generation, offered distinct visions of science, humanity, and the divine. Indeed, by combining elements of science and religion, these "cultural entrepreneurs" address the legitimate source and scope of knowledge and revelation, amid competing claims to truth, in a highly pluralized world.