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Science and creationism

Author: Ashley Montagu; Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1984.
Series: A Galaxy book, GB 721
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Essays discuss creationism, conflicts between religion and science, fundamentalist views on science, paleontology, and court decisions concerning the teaching of evolution.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ashley Montagu; Isaac Asimov
ISBN: 0195032527 9780195032529 0195032535 9780195032536
OCLC Number: 8689463
Description: xvii, 415 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Tale with many connections / Roger Lewin --
Scientific creationism versus evolution: the mislabeled debate / Kenneth R. Miller --
On defining a scientific theory: creationism considered / Robert Root-Bernstein --
Understanding fundamentalist views of science / George M. Marsden --
Evolution as fact and theory / Stephen Jay Gould --
Creationism: Genesis versus geology / Stephen Jay Gould --
Scientific creationism: nemesis of sociobiology / Gunther S. Stent --
Toward an evolutionary theology / Kenneth E. Boulding --
Scientific creationism: marketing deception as truth / Garrett Hardin --
Scientific creationism: the art of distortion / Laurie R. Godfrey --
Threat of creationism / Isaac Asimov --
Creationism and evolutionary protobiogenesis / Sidney W. Fox --
Evolution--
the fossils say yes! / L. Beverly Halstead --
Paleontologic evidence and organic evolution / Roger J. Cuffey --
To hell with evolution / Roy A. Gallant --
Creation, evolution, and high school texts / Robert M. May --
A philosopher's day in court / Michael Ruse --
Decision of the court / WIlliam R. Overton --
Evolution and the rise of the scientific spirit in America / Sidney Ratner.
Series Title: A Galaxy book, GB 721
Responsibility: edited by Ashley Montagu ; [with essays by Isaac Asimov ... and others].
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Essays discuss creationism, conflicts between religion and science, fundamentalist views on science, paleontology, and court decisions concerning the teaching of evolution.

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The worst book I have ever been unfortunate enough to read

by FatJason (WorldCat user published 2009-05-27) Excellent Permalink

It was shit. Don't read it. Don't even think about reading this shit. It was like having several angry porkipines running wild inside my head. Blah. Just ew. NO. NO, NO, NO!

Fail author, fail writing, fail everything

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