Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails)

Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails)
Author: Matt Young
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2009-05-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0813548640

Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails) is an impassioned argument in favor of science—primarily the theory of evolution—and against creationism. Why impassioned? Should not scientists be dispassionate in their work? “Perhaps,” write the authors, “but it is impossible to remain neutral when our most successful scientific theories are under attack, for religious and other reasons, by laypeople and even some scientists who willfully distort scientific findings and use them for their own purposes.” Focusing on what other books omit, how science works and how pseudoscience works, Matt Young and Paul K. Strode demonstrate the futility of “scientific” creationism. They debunk the notion of intelligent design and other arguments that show evolution could not have produced life in its present form. Concluding with a frank discussion of science and religion, Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails) argues that science by no means excludes religion, though it ought tocast doubt on certain religious claims that are contrary to known scientific fact.

The Triumph of Evolution

The Triumph of Evolution
Author: Niles Eldredge
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2001-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780805071474

After studying the debate for 20 years, a leading expert on evolution counters creationist arguments with a simple overview of the evolutionary process. Instead of pitting science against religion, the author focuses on evolution to address catastrophic species loss on Earth. 2 illus.

Evolution and the Myth of Creationism

Evolution and the Myth of Creationism
Author: Tim M. Berra
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1990
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780804717700

Gives a description of evolutionary theory and analyzes the arguments of the creationists.

Creationism USA

Creationism USA
Author: Adam Laats
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-09-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0197516610

Who are America's creationists? What do they want? Do they truly believe Jesus rode around on dinosaurs, as sometimes depicted? Creationism USA reveals how common misconceptions about creationism have led Americans into a century of unnecessary culture-war histrionics about evolution education and creationism. Adam Laats argues that Americans do not have deep, fundamental disagreements about evolution - not about the actual science behind it and not in ways that truly matter to public policy. Laats asserts that Americans do, however, have significant disagreements about creationism. By describing the history of creationism and its many variations, Laats demonstrates that the real conflict about evolution is not between creationists and evolution. The true landscape of American creationism is far more complicated than headlines suggest. Creationism USA digs beyond those headlines to prove two fundamental facts about American creationism. First, almost all Americans can be classified as creationists of one type or another. Second, nearly all Americans (including self-identified creationists) want their children to learn mainstream evolutionary science. Taken together, these truths about American creationism point to a large and productive middle ground, a widely shared public vision of the proper relationship between schools, science, and religion. Creationism USA both explains the current state of America's battles over creationism and offers a nuanced yet straight-forward prescription to solve them.

Evolution or Creation?

Evolution or Creation?
Author: Albert Debenedictis
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 671
Release: 2014-04-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1493168851

This book is designed to share the research on the origins of the universe and the origins of life with those who are truly interested in making their decisions regarding origins as well as those who are simply curious about opposing views.

Undeniable

Undeniable
Author: Bill Nye
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2014-11-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1250007135

From the host of "Bill Nye the Science Guy" comes an impassioned explanation of how the science of our origins is fundamental to our understanding of the nature of science

Defending Evolution in the Classroom

Defending Evolution in the Classroom
Author: Brian J. Alters
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780763711184

A novel handbook that explains why so many secondary and college students reject evolution and are antagonistic toward its teaching.

Chronology of the Evolution-Creationism Controversy

Chronology of the Evolution-Creationism Controversy
Author: Randy Moore
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2009-11-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0313362882

A unique chronology with entries describing the key events in the 3,000-year conflict between religion and science over the explanation and definition of life on Earth. Exhaustively researched and authoritative, Chronology of the Evolution-Creationism Controversy does what no other work does: it examines the conflict between the religious and scientific views of life on Earth in its full 3,000-year historical context, showing readers how this roiling debate has played out over the centuries. With hundreds of entries, Chronology of the Evolution-Creationism Controversy describes specific cultural, religious, and scientific events relevant to the evolution-creationism controversy from the first notions of creationism in ancient Egypt to the present. Within this historical approach, it identifies a number of recurring themes that have shaped the debate through the ages, including famous court cases, the recurrence of the "intelligent design" argument, disagreements over the age of the Earth, and the impact of technological advances on both the scientific and faith-based viewpoints. While approaching the subject globally throughout, the book's second half focuses on tensions between science and religious thought in the United States since the early 1900s.

Icons of Evolution

Icons of Evolution
Author: Jonathan Wells
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 159698533X

Everything you were taught about evolution is wrong.

The God Con

The God Con
Author: Lee Moller
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2017-06-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1525506803

The crucifix is in! You can fool most of the people most of the time. In The God Con, Lee Moller, a life-long atheist and skeptic, looks at organized religion through the lens of the con. Organized religion has been selling an invisible product, that it never has to deliver, for thousands of years. It has given us bigotry, rampant pedophilia, terrorism, and bloodshed beyond imagining. And its acolytes have, in turn, given organized religion power over their bank accounts, their reproduction, and their very “souls”.