Darwin on Trial
Published on 1. December 2015
195 pages
978-1-62157-513-9 (ISBN)
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Darwin's theory of evolution is accepted by most educated Americans as simple fact. This easy acceptance, however, hides from us the many ways in which evolution-as an idea-shapes our thinking about a great many things. What if this idea is wrong?
Berkeley law professor Phillip E. Johnson looks at the evidence for Darwinistic evolution the way a lawyer would-with a cold dispassionate eye for logic and proof. His discovery is that scientists have put the cart before the horse. They prematurely accepted Darwin's theory as fact and have been scrambling to find evidence for it.
Darwin on Trial is a cogent and stunning tour de force that not only rattles the cages of conventional wisdom, but could provide the basis for a fundamental change in the way educated Americans regard themselves, their origins, and their fate.
Berkeley law professor Phillip E. Johnson looks at the evidence for Darwinistic evolution the way a lawyer would-with a cold dispassionate eye for logic and proof. His discovery is that scientists have put the cart before the horse. They prematurely accepted Darwin's theory as fact and have been scrambling to find evidence for it.
Darwin on Trial is a cogent and stunning tour de force that not only rattles the cages of conventional wisdom, but could provide the basis for a fundamental change in the way educated Americans regard themselves, their origins, and their fate.
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Darwin on Trial
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06/1991
Regnery Publishing Inc
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- CHAPTER ONE: THE LEGAL SETTING
- CHAPTER TWO: NATURAL SELECTION
- CHAPTER THREE: MUTATIONS GREAT AND SMALL
- CHAPTER FOUR: THE FOSSIL PROBLEM
- CHAPTER FIVE: THE FACT OF EVOLUTION
- CHAPTER SIX: THE VERTEBRATE SEQUENCE
- CHAPTER SEVEN: THE MOLECULAR EVIDENCE
- CHAPTER EIGHT: PREBIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
- CHAPTER NINE: THE RULES OF SCIENCE
- CHAPTER TEN: DARWINIST RELIGION
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: DARWINIST EDUCATION
- CHAPTER TWELVE: SCIENCE AND PSEUDOSCIENCE
- RESEARCH NOTES
