Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails)

Matt Young, Paul Strode (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2009
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-4550-9 (ISBN)

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Focusing on how science works and how pseudoscience works, this work demonstrates the futility of 'scientific' creationism. It debunks the notion of intelligent design and other arguments that show evolution could not have produced life in its present form. It concludes with a frank discussion of science and religion.

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.

Matt Young is a senior lecturer in the department of physics at the Colorado School of Mines. A prolific writer, he is the coauthor of Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism (Rutgers University Press). Paul K. Strode is a biology teacher in Boulder, Colorado, and an instructor in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, with a doctoral degree in ecology and environmental science.

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I.
Introduction
The Structure of This Book
History of Creationism and Evolutionary Science in the United States
Part II.
How Science Works
How Pseudoscience Works
Why Creationism Fails
The Argument from Design
Why Intelligent-Design Creationism Fails
Part III.
The Father of Evolution
How Evolution Works
Recapitulation
Evo Devo: How Evolution Constantly Remodels
Phylogenetics
Design by Committee: The Twists, Turns, and Flips of Human Anatomy
Part IV.
How We Know the Age of the Earth
Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life?
Part V.
Evolution and Ethics
Why Science and Religion Are Compatible
Summary and Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.6.2009
Vorwort	Kevin Padian
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
ISBN-10	0-8135-4550-1 / 0813545501
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-4550-9 / 9780813545509
Zustand	Neuware