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- Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails)
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
summary
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 to cast doubt on certain religious claims that are contrary to known scientific fact.
Table of Contents
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- Tables and Boxes
- p. xi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xvii-xviii
- Part One: The Basics and the History
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- pp. 3-13
- Part Two: How Science Works (and Creationism Doesn’t)
- Chapter 4: How Science Works
- pp. 37-48
- Chapter 5: How Pseudoscience Works
- pp. 49-53
- Chapter 6: Why Creationism Fails
- pp. 54-58
- Chapter 7: The Argument from Design
- pp. 59-63
- Part Three: The Science of Evolution
- Chapter 9: The Father of Evolution
- pp. 81-85
- Chapter 10: How Evolution Works
- pp. 86-98
- Chapter 11: Recapitulation
- pp. 99-102
- Chapter 13: Phylogenetics
- pp. 118-130
- Part Four: The Universe
- Chapter 15: How We Know the Age of the Earth
- pp. 145-164
- Part Five: Evolution, Ethics, and Religion
- Chapter 17: Evolution and Ethics
- pp. 175-183
- Chapter 19: Summary and Conclusion
- pp. 194-195
- Bibliography
- pp. 217-220
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813548647
Related ISBN(s)
9780813545493
MARC Record
OCLC
593320616
Pages
264
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No