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For the rock record [electronic resource]

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According to the idea of intelligent design, nature's complexity is the result of deliberate planning by a supernatural creative force. To date, most scientific arguments against this form of creationism have been made by evolutionary biologists. In this volume, a team of earth scientists reveals that the flaws of intelligent design are not limited to the biological sciences. Indeed, the geological sciences offer some of the best refutations of intelligent design arguments. For the Rock Record is dedicated to the proposition that the idea of intelligent design should be of serious concern to everyone. Editors Jill S. Schneiderman and Warren D. Allmon have gathered leading figures from the geological community with a wide range of viewpoints that go to the heart of the debate over what is and is not science. The purveyors of intelligent design theories and its kindred philosophies threaten the scientific literacy that our society needs by confusing faith and the practice of science. This collection offers a much-needed response.

Title For the rock record [electronic resource] : geologists on intelligent design / edited by Jill S. Schneiderman and Warren D. Allmon.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Berkeley : University of California Press
Creation Date c2009
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Rocks and bones. Charles Darwin was a geologist : inorganic complexity and the rock record / Jill S. Schneiderman
Creationist perspectives on geology / Timothy H. Heaton
Missing links found : transitional forms in the fossil mammal record / Donald R. Prothero
Pigeonholing the "dino-birds" / Allison R. Tumarkin-Deratzian -- Education, politics, and philosophy. Pangloss, Paley, and the privileged planet : parrying the wedge strategy in earth science education / Mark Terry
It's not about the evidence : the role of metaphysics in the debate / Charles E. Mitchell
The misguided attack on methodological naturalism / Keith B. Miller
On the origin of species and the limits of science / David W. Goldsmith -- On religion. Teaching evolution during the week and Bible study on Sunday / Patricia H. Kelley
The "God" spectrum and the uneven search for a consistent view of the natural world / Warren D. Allmon.
Extent 1 online resource (271 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010715700105171
MARC RECORDS

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