The Counter Creationism Handbook
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Author | : Mark Isaak |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2007-01-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0520249267 |
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Those opposed to the teaching of evolution often make well-rehearsed claims about science that sound powerful and convincing. This work seeks to serve as a resource for addressing over 400 of the most prevalent claims made by creationists. Each claim is followed by a scientifically valid rebuttal.
Author | : Brian J. Alters |
Publisher | : Jones & Bartlett Learning |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780763711184 |
Download Defending Evolution in the Classroom Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A novel handbook that explains why so many secondary and college students reject evolution and are antagonistic toward its teaching.
Author | : Philip Kitcher |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1983-06-23 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780262610377 |
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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.
Author | : Bill Nye |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-11-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1250007135 |
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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 | : Robert T. Pennock |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2000-02-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780262264051 |
Download Tower of Babel Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Creationists have acquired a more sophisticated intellectual arsenal. This book reveals the insubstantiality of their arguments. Creationism is no longer the simple notion it once was taken to be. Its new advocates have become more sophisticated in how they present their views, speaking of "intelligent design" rather than "creation science" and aiming their arguments against the naturalistic philosophical method that underlies science, proposing to replace it with a "theistic science." The creationism controversy is not just about the status of Darwinian evolution—it is a clash of religious and philosophical worldviews, for a common underlying fear among Creationists is that evolution undermines both the basis of morality as they understand it and the possibility of purpose in life. In Tower of Babel, philosopher Robert T. Pennock compares the views of the new creationists with those of the old and reveals the insubstantiality of their arguments. One of Pennock's major innovations is to turn from biological evolution to the less charged subject of linguistic evolution, which has strong theoretical parallels with biological evolution, both in content and in the sort of evidence scientists use to draw conclusions about origins. Of course, an evolutionary view of language does conflict with the Bible, which says that God created the variety of languages at one time as punishment for the Tower of Babel. Several chapters deal with the work of Phillip Johnson, a highly influential leader of the new Creationists. Against his and other views, Pennock explains how science uses naturalism and discusses the relationship between factual and moral issues in the creationism-evolution controversy. The book also includes a discussion of Darwin's own shift from creationist to evolutionist and an extended argument for keeping private religious beliefs separate from public scientific knowledge.
Author | : Thomas F. Heinze |
Publisher | : Baker Publishing Group (MI) |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Bible and evolution |
ISBN | : 9780801040023 |
Download The Creation Vs. Evolution Handbook Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Eugenie C. Scott |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2009-08-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0520261879 |
Download Evolution Vs. Creationism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Presents the scientific evidence for evolution and reasons why it should be taught in schools, provides various religious points of view, and offers insight to the evolution-creationism controversy.
Author | : Institute for Creation Research |
Publisher | : New Leaf Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Bible and evolution |
ISBN | : 0890510032 |
Download Scientific Creationism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book deals with all the important aspects of the creation-evolution question from a strictly scientific point of view, attempting to evaluate the physical evidence from the relevant scientific fields without reference to the Bible or other religious literature. It demonstrates that the real evidences dealing with origins and ancient history support creationism rather than evolutionism. This General Edition (rather than the Public School Edition) includes a chapter, "Creation According to Scripture," which places the scientific evidence in its proper Biblical and theological context.
Author | : Langdon Gilkey |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813918549 |
Download Creationism on Trial Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
On the author's role as an expert witness for the ACLU in the "creationist" trial (regarding Arkansas Act 590 of 1981) in Little Rock, Arkansas, Dec. 1981.
Author | : Tom Kaden |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2018-09-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3319993801 |
Download Creationism and Anti-Creationism in the United States Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book deals with professional creationist and anti-creationist organizations in America, and describes how the “conflict between science and religion” is the result of the interaction between these two groups. It retraces their history from the 1960s onwards, and identifies crucial turning points that led to new forms of creationism and anti-creationism. It explains their strategies, labels and arguments as effects of this history and structure. Taking a field theoretical approach, the book avoids problems of prior creationism research, making it possible to identify the mechanisms through which creationism generates new strategies, arguments, and media output. The field model is used as an interpretive tool to make sense of some of the most important creationist and anti-creationist publications and media statements.