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Tower of Babel: The evidence against the new creationism

By Robert T. Pennock

Book information

Publisher
MIT
Year
2000
ISBN
9780262661119, 0262661659
LCC
QH366.2 .P428 2000
Open Library ID
OL23021991M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (2788302 bytes)
Pages
448\448
Topic
Biology
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Time added
2010-07-29 05:14:56

Description

In Tower of Babel , philosopher Robert Pennock compares the views of the new creationists with those of the old and reveals the insubstantiality of their arguments. One of Pennock's major innovations is to turn from biological evolution to the less-charged subject of linguistic evolution, which has strong theoretical parallels with biological evolution both in content and in the sort of evidence scientists use to draw conclusions about origins. Several chapters deal with the work of Phillip Johnson, a highly influential leader of the new creationists. Pennock explains how science uses naturalism and discusses the relationship between factual and moral issues in the creationism-evolution controversy. The book also includes a discussion of Darwin's own shift from creationist to evolutionist and an extended argument for keeping private religious beliefs separate from public scientific knowledge.

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