Evolution and Religious Creation Myths

How Scientists Respond

Paul F. Lurquin, Linda Stone (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2007
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-531538-7 (ISBN)

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Relying mostly on modern genetic science, this book exposes how various forms of creationism - including intelligent design - fail to provide testable models for the appearance and evolution of life. On the contrary, science has been very successful in the description of the unguided processes that led to the creation of the universe and one of its consequences, the appearance of life forms, including humans.

Chapter 1.: Creationism and Intelligent Design: The evolution of an idea.
Chapter 2.: What is evolutionary biology and where is it coming from?
Chapter 3.: Creationist purpose and irreducible complexity rebutted
Chapter 4.: The origins and evolution of Homo sapiens
Chapter 5.: The origins of life and the cosmos as evolutionary themes
Chapter 6.: Evolution of the DNA world and the chance events that accompanied it. More about complexity
Chapter 7.: The dangers of creationism
Appendix I: The Brusselator
Appendix II: Experiments for educators
Glossary
Further Reading

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.7.2007
Zusatzinfo	8 halftones, 18 line illus.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	237 x 165 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-531538-3 / 0195315383
ISBN-13	978-0-19-531538-7 / 9780195315387
Zustand	Neuware