The Triumph of Evolution: and the Failure of Creationism
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (601 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0716744783 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Who is This Book For?" according to Kevin Currie-Knight. Niles Eldredge admits in this book that he could care less whether people, in their private lives, choose to believe evolution or creationism. The reason Eldredge wrote this book, then, is becuase of the evergrowing tumult over whether to teach 'intelligent design' in schools as a science. This, Eldredge contents, is often due to creationists' misunderstanding of what science is, and hence, why 'God did it,' can't qualify as serious science, and also creationists' misunderstanding (or willing misreading) of sceintific evidence corroborating evolution. In brief, Eldredge is trying to 'set the record stra. "There is a war" according to Omer Belsky. Having read, reviewed and thoroughly enjoyed Niles Eldredge's 'Reinventing Darwin', I was looking forward to his account of the creationism controversy. Although an interesting read, I found unfocused and disappointing.Much of the problem is that Eldredge writes what are in essence several different books. We have discussions of the Scientific Method, primers on evolution, the fossil record, patterns of life and punctuated equilibrium, attacks on young earth creationism, and a reply to Intelligent Design Creationism. All this in a framework (expressed in the introduction and the concluding chapter) clai. Katie G said More than one version of Creationism. Niles Eldredge, in this book, constantly attacks the idea of creationism, though he makes NO distinction between young earth creationism and old earth creationism. I was very frustrated thoughout my reading by his constant belittling of the idea of creationism, based on the lack of scientific information to support a young earth (and overwhelming information to support an old earth), though Hugh Ross is never mentioned. Hugh Ross is an old earth creationist, an astronomer, and the developer of a creation model that can be scientifically tested. Eldredge attacks creationism as a whole, but he fails to to
In this incisive narrative, he reveals the creationists' basic argument and their strategies for advancing it--including the recent attack on "philosophical naturalism" and emphasis on models of "intelligent design" by creationist Phillip Johnson and his colleagues. It is a problem that can be solved only if science and the adherents of the world's religious traditions pool their understanding, knowledge, and resources together. Eldredge disavows the ongoing dissonance between science and religion and seeks instead a resonance in the pressing issue of catastrophic species loss on Earth. Ultimately, The Triumph of Evolution challenges all of us to leave the stale debates of the nineteenth century to confront the vital problems of the next century.. Why is there still so much anti-evolution sentiment in th
Pennock, author of Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism "I can't imagine a better book by a finer scientist and writer on a more vital and contemporary subject. Creationists are attacking science with renewed vigor, so this is a timely, much-needed book. Are they right that there are no fossil intermediates? Does the Cambrian explosion really pose an insurmountable problem? Are the fossils that support human evolution really all mistakes or fakes? Was the geological column and the sequence of horse fossils really just invented by scientists who simply 'assumed' evolution? Do distinguished paleontologists like Niles Eldredge in