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The Case Against Intelligent Design
Times Books
August 2006
On Sale: August 8, 2006
224 pages ISBN: 0805081216 EAN: 9780805081213 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
A creationist-turned-scientist demonstrates the facts of
evolution and exposes Intelligent Design’s real agenda Science is on the defensive. Half of Americans reject the
theory of evolution and “Intelligent Design” campaigns are
gaining ground. Classroom by classroom, creationism is
overthrowing biology. In Why Darwin Matters, bestselling author Michael Shermer
explains how the newest brand of creationism appeals to our
predisposition to look for a designer behind life’s
complexity. Shermer decodes the scientific evidence to show
that evolution is not “just a theory” and illustrates how it
achieves the design of life through the bottom-up process of
natural selection. Shermer, once an evangelical Christian
and a creationist, argues that Intelligent Design proponents
are invoking a combination of bad science, political
antipathy, and flawed theology. He refutes their
pseudoscientific arguments and then demonstrates why
conservatives and people of faith can and should embrace
evolution. He then appraises the evolutionary questions that
truly need to be settled, building a powerful argument for
science itself. Cutting the politics away from the facts, Why Darwin Matters
is an incisive examination of what is at stake in the debate
over evolution.
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