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Also by Michael Shermer:

The Believing Brain, June 2011
Hardcover
The Mind of the Market, January 2008
Hardcover
Why Darwin Matters, August 2007
Paperback
Why Darwin Matters, August 2006
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WHY DARWIN MATTERS
By: Michael Shermer

The Case Against Intelligent Design

Holt Paperbacks
August 2007
On Sale: July 24, 2007
224 pages
ISBN: 0805083065
EAN: 9780805083064
Paperback
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Non-Fiction

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 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. 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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