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Creationist and Anti-Creationist Views on the Order of Their Conflict

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In his ethnological research, Claude Lévi-Strauss repeatedly observed that the structure of a group as it appears to an outsider does not need to be identical with its actual constitution. For instance, the Bororo of Brazil live in villages where all huts form a circle around a larger house in the middle. This structure obscures the fact that each hut belongs to one of three social groups that are strictly separated from each other by marriage rules. While at first glance the Bororo seem to live in an egalitarian society, their social classes divide them in a way that is similar to the Indian caste system.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Lévi-Strauss 2007.

  2. 2.

    Answers in Genesis n.d. A version of the graphic was first published in Ham 1987, p. 108. It also appears in Ham 2008, p. 11.

  3. 3.

    Cf. Almond et al. 2004; Kaden 2014 (in German).

  4. 4.

    The analysis of power types follows Heinrich Popitz’ work, which is described in Sect. 6.4.2.

  5. 5.

    Popitz 2017, p. 14.

  6. 6.

    The notion of secularization is multi-faceted. Following Casanova’s distinction (Casanova 1994), it refers to the separation of religious and political action. This differentiation does not necessarily entail the privatization of religious convictions or the decline of religion altogether (which are the two other dimensions of Casanova’s notion of secularization).

  7. 7.

    Popitz 2017, p. 17.

  8. 8.

    See Sect. 7.1.

  9. 9.

    See Sect. 6.3.2.

  10. 10.

    Scott 2000a.

  11. 11.

    Scott 2005, p. 57.

  12. 12.

    See Sect. 4.2.5.

  13. 13.

    See Sect. 5.1.4.

  14. 14.

    One example for this is Tennessee’s law HB0368, which claims that issues such as evolution, global warming and cloning are controversial, and that teachers are obliged to present the „scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories“. This includes the possibility to make use of Intelligent Design textbooks such as Explore Evolution (Meyer et al. 2007) and Discovering Intelligent Design (Kemper et al. 2013). An article series about the “Tennessee Monkey Bill” is provided by the National Center for Science Education (n.d.-a).

  15. 15.

    See Sect. 6.4.

  16. 16.

    This kind of “consecration “can take many forms, for instance, positive reviews in secular media (see West 2009) or collaborations with secular scientists (see Stewart 2007).

  17. 17.

    See Sect. 3.1.1.

  18. 18.

    The transcription of the interview glosses over some repetitions and other bumps that are common in non-scripted conversations. Emphasized words are in italics, omissions are marked by the symbol […].

  19. 19.

    Interview of Eugenie Scott by Tom Kaden, 14.05.2012 (see appendix).

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Kaden, T. (2019). Creationist and Anti-Creationist Views on the Order of Their Conflict. In: Creationism and Anti-Creationism in the United States. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99380-5_8

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