Scientists confront intelligent design and creationism
With the pseudoscience of creationism rising again under the guise of "intelligent design," this powerful collection reveals the pervasive and insidious threat posed to genuine science by ID proponents. The sixteen original essays by leading scientists, lawyers, and educators address two key issues: the overwhelming scientific evidence for evolution gathered over 150 years and the dubious underpinnings of creationism; and how society can mount better educational and legal policies to prevent a theological takeover of our public and scientific institutions. The book includes powerful voices in the modern culture war against ID. With creationist arguments forever morphing and reappearing under new aliases, this new confrontation is a must-read for teachers, students, and general readers, and a lasting refutation of creationism's fraudulent claims.--From publisher description
Nonfiction
463 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780393050905, 0393050904
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The problems with creationism / Massimo Pigliucci
Darwinism, creationism, and "intelligent design" / Ronald L. Numbers
Creation science lite : "intelligent design" as the new anti-evolutionism / Eugenie C. Scott
Wielding the wedge : keeping anti-evolutionism alive / John R. Cole
Physics, cosmology, and the new creationism / Victor J. Stenger
The ages of the earth, solar system, galaxy, and universe / G. Brent Dalrymple
Creationism and the origin of life : did it all begin in a "warm little pond"? / Antonio Lazcano
"Transitional forms" versus transitional features / Kevin Padian & Kenneth D. Angielczyk
Biological complexity / Robert Dorit
Logic and math turn to smoke and mirrors : William Dembski's "Design inference" / Wesley R. Elsberry
Human emergence : natural process or divine creation? / C. Loring Brace
God of the gaps : the argument from ignorance and the limits of methodological naturalism / Robert T. Pennock
Is evolution "only a theory"? Scientific methodologies and evolutionary biology / Norman A. Johnson
The invisible Bible : the logic of creation science / J. Michael Plavcan
Why target evolution? The problem of authority / Alice Beck Kehoe
Why teach evolution? / Andrew J. Petto & Laurie R. Godfrey