The Science of Evolution and the Myth of Creationism: Knowing What's Real and Why It Matters

By Wendy Bernard

Book Overview

This clear, lively, and systematic presentation examines the scientific evidence for evolution and reaches for the widest possible audience--from scientific minds to those with no science background at all. Forcefully rejecting creationist objections to evolution and including a critique of Intelligent Design, it argues that they are part of a larger social agenda. With discussion that celebrates the fascination to be found in studying the diversity and complexity of life, this examination suggests with some urgency that the science of evolution is crucial to the existence of science itself. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617690996
• ISBN13: 9781617690990
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.4" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Very Useful Book

This book includes many topics that the school systems like to avoid, but are good to know. It shatters some basic misconceptions about the nature of science and the definition of a theory. It represents what american society in particular considers "unwanted knowledge." I would reccomend this book to anyone who still wonders why monkeys are stil around if evolution exists and who are apathetic about accepting scientific...

Great starter and refresher

Great book for just about anybody wanting to know about evolution and how life really works. Also tells about all the religions and how they evolved and spread and how some are attacking science especially in America. For anyone wanting to know the world around them and those who want to learn more this is well written and easy to comprehend.

If you buy only one book on creationism, make it this one!

"Everyone needs to understand the basic facts of evolution as well as the essentials of the scientific method... When people are deprived of a scientific approach to reality as a whole, they are robbed of both a full appreciation of the beauty and richness of the natural world and the means to understand the dynamics of change not only in nature but in human society as well." -Ardea Skybreak, "The Science of Evolution and...

A refreshing way to defend evolution

A very interesting attack on creationism. Skybreak presents a very up to date scientific case for evolution and against creationism (including "intelligent design"), taking care to explain all of this in an accessible manner. This really is a book for the general public, with no trace of a dry textbook tone. What makes it particularly interesting is the way Skybreak does not shy away from attacking fundamentalist religion...

Ardea Skybreak teaches the controversy

Most books that teach the basics of evolutionary biology are fairly genteel in their treatment of creationism--they don't endorse it, of course, but they either ignore it, or more frequently now, they segregate off a chapter to deal with the major claims. There are also whole books dedicated to combating creationist myths, of course, but they're not usually the kind of book you pick up to get a tutorial in basic biology. In...