Why Evolution Works And Creationism Fails
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Author | : Zondervan, |
Publisher | : Zondervan Academic |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2017-11-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0310080983 |
Evolution--or the broader topic of origins--has enormous relevance to how we understand the Christian faith and how we interpret Scripture. Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design presents the current "state of the conversation" about origins among evangelicals representing four key positions: Young Earth Creationism - Ken Ham (Answers in Genesis) Old Earth (Progressive) Creationism - Hugh Ross (Reasons to Believe) Evolutionary Creation - Deborah B. Haarsma (BioLogos) Intelligent Design - Stephen C. Meyer (The Discovery Institute) The contributors offer their best defense of their position addressing questions such as: What is your position on origins - understood broadly to include the physical universe, life, and human beings in particular? What do you take to be the most persuasive arguments in defense of your position? How do you demarcate and correlate evidence about origins from current science and from divine revelation? What hinges on answering these questions correctly? This book allows each contributor to not only present the case for his or her view, but also to critique and respond to the critiques of the other contributors, allowing you to compare their beliefs in an open forum setting to see where they overlap and where they differ.
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.
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
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.
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”.
Author | : Philip Kitcher |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1983-06-23 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780262610377 |
Abusing Science is a manual for intellectual self-defense, the most complete available for presenting the case against Creationist pseudo-science. It is also a lucid exposition of the nature and methods of genuine science. The book begins with a concise introduction to evolutionary theory for non-scientists and closes with a rebuttal of the charge that this theory undermines religious and moral values. It will astonish many readers that this case must still be made in the 1980s, but since it must, Philip Kitcher makes it irresistibly and forcefully. Not long ago, a federal court struck down an Arkansas law requiring that "scientific" Creationism be taught in high school science classes. Contemporary Creationists may have lost one legal battle, but their cause continues to thrive. Their efforts are directed not only at state legislatures but at local school boards and textbook publishers. As Kitcher argues in this rigorous but highly readable book, the integrity of science is under attack. The methods of inquiry used in evolutionary biology are those which are used throughout the sciences. Moreover, modern biology is intertwined with other fields of science—physics, chemistry, astronomy, and geology. Creationists hope to persuade the public that education in science should be torn apart to make room for a literal reading of Genesis. Abusing Science refutes the popular complaint that the scientific establishment is dogmatic and intolerant, denying "academic freedom" to the unorthodox. It examines Creationist claims seriously and systematically, one by one, showing clearly just why they are at best misguided, at worst ludicrous.