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200 14$aThe three failures of creationism $elogic, rhetoric, and science /$fWalter M. Fitch
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2012
215   $a1 online resource (194 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-520-27053-3 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aLogic, logical fallacies, and rhetoric -- The basics -- Some simple math and statistics -- "Young-earth" creationism.
330   $aWalter 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.
606   $aCreationism
606   $aReligion and science
606   $aLogic
606   $aEvolution (Biology)
606   $aFaith and reason
610   $abeginning of earth.
610   $abeginning of mankind.
610   $abig bang theory.
610   $abiology and anthropology.
610   $acharles darwin.
610   $acreation of earth.
610   $acreationist thinking.
610   $aecology.
610   $aevolution and creationism.
610   $aevolution and genetics.
610   $aevolutionary science.
610   $aevolutionary theory.
610   $aexistence of god.
610   $afossil dating.
610   $agenes and evolution.
610   $agod and science.
610   $ahuman biology.
610   $ahuman genetics.
610   $amendelian genetics.
610   $anatural selection.
610   $areligion and evolution.
610   $ascience and christianity.
610   $ascience and logic.
610   $ascience and religion.
610   $ascience of evolution.
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615  0$aReligion and science.
615  0$aLogic.
615  0$aEvolution (Biology)
615  0$aFaith and reason.
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