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In clear, concise chapters, Johnson offers a casual, reasoned and scientifically sound evaluation of the support for Darwinism--from fossil records to molecular biology. In a new afterword, he responds to his critics and their arguments. "Unquestionably the best critique of Darwinism I... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Darwinists: Add a description of this character.
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Popper
- Richard Dawkins
- Goldschmidt
- Eldredge
- George Gaylord Simpson
- Kuhn
- Douglas Futuyma
- Kristol
- Zuckerman
- Charles Darwin
- Patterson
- T. H. Huxley
- Dobzhansky
- Darwinism
- Julian Huxley
- Bryan
- Ernst Mayr
- Woese
- Haeckel
- Steven Stanley
First Sentence edit
In 1981 the state legislature of Louisiana passed a law requiring that if "evolution-science" is taught in the public schools, the schools must also provide balanced treatment for something called "creation-science."
Table of Contents edit
Preface
Chapter One: The Legal Setting
Chapter Two: Natural Selection
Chapter Three: Mutations Great and Small
Chapter Four: The Fossil Problem
Chapter Five: The Fact of Evolution
Chapter Six: The Vertebrate Sequence
Chapter Seven: The Molecular Evidence
Chapter Eight: Prebiological Evolution
Chapter Nine: The Rules of Science
Chapter Ten: Darwinist Religion
Chapter Eleven: Darwinist Education
Chapter Twelve: Science and Pseudoscience
Epilogue
Research Notes
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Phillip E. Johnson (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: QH366.2 .J65 1993
- Dewey: 575
Subjects edit
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Authors, A-Z › ( J ) › Johnson, Phillip E.
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Christianity › Theology › Philosophy
- Books › Science › Biological Sciences › Biology
- Books › Nonfiction › Philosophy › Philosophy of Religion
- Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Evolution
- Books › Science › Evolution
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