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Title: Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism by Philip Kitcher ISBN: 0-262-61037-X Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 23 June, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.7 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Info on Creationist Irrationality
Comment: This book does exactly what it sets out to do: further reveal creationism as myth. It is not the job of science to make facts intertwine with scripture, facts will stand on their own whether you like them or not. Religion and science can co-exist but they must occupy their own domains.
Read this book if you would like additional insight into creationist shortcomings in the scientific realm.
Rating: 1
Summary: Doesn't cut the mustard
Comment:
Strong on research and defense of previously-established evolutionary theories, but fails to prove that life evolved out of still matter.
This book succesfully explains how organisms are malleable and evolve according to environmental demands. However, it fails to convincingly prove or even attempt to describe how life started and expanded into the plethora of plants and animals that now inhabit Earth. By what natural process did chemicals combine to form even a single living cell? This is not convincingly explained in this book.
While this book's details and technical information are quite hefty, there are innumerable questions concerning our origins that are left untouched. For example, what about anomolous creatures with features that cannot have been developed by a competition for limited resources, like the spider and her web, or the electric eel? How did an unconcious accident produce the first photoreceptor?
Until these questions are convincingly answered - especially the question of what kicked life off in the first place, the idea that the universe and life within it is the creative product of an unimaginable force or god makes more sense than the theory that it was all random.
-- JJ Timmins
Rating: 1
Summary: Not the case it claims to be
Comment: Kitcher's book continues the unfair diatribes against any scientist who questions the sacred cow of evolutionary theory. His so-called case against the creationist model fails to establish its case because the plain fact is, as more and more evolutionary scientists are privately admitting, the case for evolutionary theory continues to crumble in the face of ever increasing legitimate scientific knowledge. As is the case with all anti-creationist books, Kitcher attempts to settle the question by defining science only within the framework of naturalistic philosophy. Evolutionists hate it when this fact is pointed out; nevertheless, it has been sufficiently documented by such writers as Phillip Johnson. If Kitcher feels so strongly that creationism "abuses" science, he should debate a top-notch creationist such as Kent Hovind, Duane Gish, or Johnson.
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Title: Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism by Robert T. Pennock ISBN: 0262661659 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 28 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Evolution and the Myth of Creationism: A Basic Guide to the Facts in the Evolution Debate by Tim M. Berra ISBN: 0804717702 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences by National Academy Of Sciences ISBN: 0309064066 Publisher: National Academy Press Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Triumph of Evolution : and the Failure of Creationism by Niles Eldredge ISBN: 0805071474 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution by Douglas J. Futuyma ISBN: 0878931848 Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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