Evolution and the Myth of Creationism: A Basic Guide to the Facts in the Evolution Debate

Tim M. Berra

ISBN 10: 0804715483 / ISBN 13: 9780804715485

Published by Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1990

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Book condition: Near Fine. Jacket: Near Fine. A bright copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Evolution and the Myth of Creationism: A Basic Guide to the Facts in the Evolution Debate
• Publisher: Stanford University Press, Stanford
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804715483
• ISBN 13: 9780804715485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Theology/Religious Interest
  • Science, Technology, Mathematics

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Synopsis

This clear, candid, and generously illustrated book is written for the open-minded reader who does not understand the technical issues of evolution, but would like to, who sees everywhere the signs of a bitter political, philosophical, and educational debate, but does not know what to make of it or who to believe. It tells how science proceeds, what evolution is, how science knows that it has occurred and continues to occur, and what biologists can point to, in fossils and in the living world, as hard evidence of evolution. For its content and foundations, the book draws on zoology, botany, genetics, embryology, geology, geophysics, cosmology, astronomy, astrophysics, history, religion, and science education - everything expressed with a clarity that enables the general reader without a science background, as well as high school students and their teachers, to understand the argument.

Review

'Berra's brilliant exposition offers a refreshing, lucid, and insightful view of one of the most important ideas in the history of science. After readingthis superb book, anyone with prior qualms about the scientific validity of evolution should be convinced that evolution is the explanation for the diversity of life on the planet. This is not an anti-religion book, but a very successful attempt to assist us all in understanding the scientific basis for evolution.' Donald C. Johanson, Institute of Human Origins