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



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Autore: Fitch Walter M. <1929-2011.> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The three failures of creationism [[electronic resource] ] : logic, rhetoric, and science / / Walter M. Fitch Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (194 p.)
Disciplina: 231.7/652
Soggetto topico: Creationism
Religion and science
Logic
Evolution (Biology)
Faith and reason
Soggetto non controllato: beginning of earth
beginning of mankind
big bang theory
biology and anthropology
charles darwin
creation of earth
creationist thinking
ecology
evolution and creationism
evolution and genetics
evolutionary science
evolutionary theory
existence of god
fossil dating
genes and evolution
god and science
human biology
human genetics
mendelian genetics
natural selection
religion and evolution
science and christianity
science and logic
science and religion
science of evolution
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.
Titolo autorizzato: The three failures of creationism  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-37355-6
9786613373557
0-520-95166-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910789895203321
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