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基本説明
Foreword by Kevin Padian. Focusing on what other books omit, how science works and how pseudoscience works, the authors demonstrate the futility of "scientific" creationism
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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.
Contents
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
