Scientists Confront Creationism Intelligent Design and Beyond

Name: Scientists Confront Creationism Intelligent Design and Beyond
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ISBN: 9780393330731

ISBN-10: 0393330737

ISBN-13: 9780393330731

Edition: 2008

Authors: Andrew J. Petto, Laurie R. Godfrey

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From leading scientists, lawyers, and educatorsa decisive rebuttal to those who undermine science in the name of religion. In a time when creationist textbooks continue to appear in classrooms and the president of the United States encourages educators to "teach both sides" of the argument,Scientists Confront Creationismpresents an accessible defense of evolution and a blueprint to save public education in this country from the dangers of pseudoscience. With sixteen essays from some of the most important advocates in the field, including Kevin Padian, John R. Cole, and Wesley R. Elsberry,Scientists Confront Creationismreveals the persuasive evidence for evolution and the bankruptcy of the…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.82" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 0.792

Andrew J. Petto is the editor of Reports of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, California, and a lecturer in anatomy and physiology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He lives in Wisconsin.

Laurie R. Godfrey is a professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She lives in Massachusetts.



Acknowledgments


Preface: Why We Did It Again



Introduction: The Problems with Creationism




Creationism and "Intelligent Design"


Darwinism, Creationism, and "Intelligent Design"



Creation Science Lite: "Intelligent Design" as the New Anti-Evolutionism



Wielding the Wedge: Keeping Anti-Evolutionism Alive




Scientific Perspectives


Physics, Cosmology, and the New Creationism



The Ages of the Earth, Solar System, Galaxy, and Universe



Creationism and the Origin of Life: Did It All Begin in a "Warm Little Pond"?



"Transitional Forms" versus Transitional Features



Biological Complexity



Logic and Math Turn to Smoke and Mirrors: William Dembski's "Design Inference"



Human Emergence: Natural Process or Divine Creation?




Understanding Science


God of the Gaps: The Argument from Ignorance and the Limits of Methodological Naturalism



Is Evolution "Only a Theory"? Scientific Methodologies and Evolutionary Biology



The Invisible Bible: The Logic of Creation Science



Why Target Evolution? The Problem of Authority



Why Teach Evolution?



Authors


Index