Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails) / / Matt Young, Paul Strode.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Young, Matt,; Strode, Paul,
• TeilnehmendeR: Padian, Kevin.
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables and Boxes -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part I. The Basics and the History -- Part II. How Science Works (and Creationism Doesn't) -- Part III. The Science of Evolution -- Part IV. The Universe -- Part V. Evolution, Ethics, and Religion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors