Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design - Couverture souple

Shermer, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0805083065 ISBN 13 : 9780805083064

Editeur : St Martin's Press, 2007

Synopsis

"Shermer is savage about the shortcomings of intelligent design
and eloquent about the spirituality of science . . . An invaluable primer."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review

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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À propos de l?auteur

Michael Shermer is the author of The Moral Arc, Why People Believe Weird Things, The Believing Brain, and several other books on the evolution of human beliefs and behavior. He is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, the editor of Skeptic.com, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. He lives in Southern California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: St Martin's Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0805083065
• ISBN 13: 9780805083064
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 199
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible