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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809698803321

Autore

Fitch Walter M. <1929-2011.>

Titolo

The three failures of creationism : logic, rhetoric, and science / / Walter M. Fitch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-37355-6

9786613373557

0-520-95166-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Disciplina

231.7/652

Soggetti

Creationism

Religion and science

Logic

Evolution (Biology)

Faith and reason

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Logic, logical fallacies, and rhetoric -- The basics -- Some simple math and statistics -- "Young-earth" creationism.

Sommario/riassunto

Walter M. Fitch, a pioneer in the study of molecular evolution, has written this cogent overview of why creationism fails with respect to all the fundamentals of scientific inquiry. He explains the basics of logic and rhetoric at the heart of scientific thinking, shows what a logical syllogism is, and tells how one can detect that an argument is logically fallacious, and therefore invalid, or even duplicitous. Fitch takes his readers through the arguments used by creationists to question the science of evolution. He clearly delineates the fallacies in logic that characterize creationist thinking, and explores the basic statistics that creationists tend to ignore, including elementary genetics, the age of the Earth, and fossil dating. His book gives readers the tools they need for detecting and disassembling the ideas most frequently repeated by creationists.