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For the rock record : geologists on intelligent design creationism /
According to the idea of intelligent design, nature's complexity is the result of deliberate planning by a supernatural creative force. To date, most scientific arguments against this form of creationism have been made by evolutionary biologists. In this volume, a team of earth scientists revea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Jill S. Schneiderman and Warren D. Allmon
- Part one Rocks and bones
- Charles Darwin was a geologist: inorganic complexity and the rock record / Jill S. Schneiderman
- Creationist perspective on geology / Timothy H. Heaton
- Missing links found: transitional forms in the fossil mammal record / Donald R. Prothero
- Pigeonholing the "dino-birds" / Allison R. Tumarkin-Deratzian
- Part two Education, politics, and philosophy
- Pangloss, Paley, and the privileged planet: parrying the wedge strategy in earth science education / Mark Terry
- It's not about the evidence: the role of metaphysics in the debate / Charles E. Mitchell
- The misguided attack on methodological naturalism / Keith B. Miller
- On the origin of species and the limits of science / David W. Goldsmith
- Part three On religion
- Teaching evolution during the week and bible study on Sunday / Patricia H. Kelley
- The "god spectrum" and the uneven search for a consistent view of the natural world / Warren D. Allmon
- Selected resources relevant to intelligent design
- About the contributors
- Index.