books about: darwinism     books:       The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America21 reviews Lauri Lebo New Press, 2008 Lebo's pen has music and power Lebo's narrative both public and personal of Kitzmiller v. Dover has a polish that is rarely found in a book written by a journalist. While journalists by definition are writers and can make a short topical piece sing, it seems that many tend to have a rather leaden voice in a more complex and multilayered story. Lebo is a rare exception. Her story of the clumsy machinations of the board ...             The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution179 reviews Richard Dawkins Houghton Mifflin, 2004 The perfect gift/get! I've always loved Dawkins books, so when my son had this on his wish list at birthday time, even though I'd already spent all of my alloted birthday money (and more!), I had to add this one! I'm glad I did. He's told me how much he enjoyed it, and that, afterall, is the whole point of a gift, giving something the receiver will enjoy. Of course, now I want the book, but it will have to wait a ...             The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism95 reviews Michael J. Behe Free Press, 2008 The Soul and Intelligent Design In the United States, the public face of the science of intelligent design (ID) is an advocacy movement to change the way evolution is taught. Michael Behe is one of the leaders of the movement because of his concept of the irreducible complexity of molecular machinery (Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution). In this latest book he distances himself from this movement to a ...             The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design93 reviews Jonathan Wells Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2006 Excellent! This is a very good book. If you wish a more scientific approach to ID, I would refer you to Michael Behe's "Edge of Evolution."             Darwin Day In America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science7 reviews John G. West Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2007 Essential Study of the Impact of Materialist Ideology on Amercian Society In Darwin Day in America, Dr. John West brings into sharp focus the manipulation of our political and cultural institutions by metaphysical materialist ideology. A superb work of scholarship, Darwin Day in America chronicles how some of the top scientific, medical and elite thinkers of the 20th and 21st Centuries pushed an ardent materialist agenda into our hospitals, courtrooms, schools, and ...             Social Darwinism in American Thought5 reviews Richard Hofstadter Beacon Press, 1992 Fascinating Richard Hofstadter is an excellent historian of the trends in American political, social, and religious thought. This book chronicles the rise and fall of Herbert Spencer's philosophy as a reinforcing doctrine for laissez-faire political economy. Hofstadter deftly combines his own observations with carefully selected quotes from the thinkers themselves. One lesson that may be gleaned from this ...             Financial Darwinism: Create Value or Self-Destruct in a World of Risk2 reviews Leo M. Tilman Wiley, 2008 "Survival is not mandatory" Is it really necessary to understand the ongoing tectonic financial shift and evolve, asks Financial Darwinism? Lehman, Fannie, Freddie, Bear Stearns, Countrywide, Wachovia, and AIG did not think so. "survival is not mandatory" is the core theme of this book. If nothing else, this statement is the evident fact of the current crisis. ...             On Human Nature31 reviews Edward O. Wilson Harvard University Press, 2004 Evolutionary determinism In 1975 Wilson published 'Sociobiology' which proposed the idea that social structures in the animal kingdom could be explained by biological evolution. The last chapter in that book dealt with humans and created a wave of praise and critic. Many detractors, including influential evolutionists such as Stephen J. Gould, saw Wilson as crossing the fine between the science of evolution and Social ...             Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life149 reviews Daniel C. Dennett Simon & Schuster, 1996 Unintelligent design explained This book is a philosophical work rather than straight science, the author does an excellent job of looking at all the various species of darwinian theories and their mutations, from scientific,to pop culture to philosophical,and subjecting them to a harsh environment of critical thought and logic, so selecting out the fittest for survival at the end of the book.I may be a bit biased as I have ...             Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds109 reviews Phillip E. Johnson InterVarsity Press, 1997 We are done with dogma The phenomena of dogma is what keeps people from buying into a philosophy, be it religious, political, or scientific in nature. I enjoyed reading this book, having purchased it 2 days ago and finishing it last night. It is eight chapters long, 120 pages, and not overly technical. The author knows his subject and explains it clearly and wisely. This is not another intransigent one-sided dogma ...             Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing41 reviews ISI Books, 2004 Outstanding This collection is must reading for anyone who has an interest in thinking about Darwinism and well-written responses to various types of Darwinism. No cheap shots or half-baked arguments found here. All are carefully selected pieces - and each is worth taking the time to mentally engage.             Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature4 reviews Joseph Carroll Routledge, 2004 A Potentially Revolutionary Contribution The various essays, articles and book reviews comprising Joseph Carroll's Literary Darwinism are rooted in two principles: first, humans share a common nature that can be revealed through the scientific method; second, this universal nature is the product of relentless Darwinian selection over eons. While this is obviously orthodox stuff in the world of behavioral biology, these notions remain ...             Tornado in a Junkyard: The Relentless Myth of Darwinism47 reviews James Perloff Refuge Books, 1999 Fascinating, Eye-Opening, Compelling. I just finished this book on a plane. I am an attorney, and largely an agnostic, though I believe there is a higher power. This book specifically addresses virtually every aspect of Darwinism and evolution, answering many of the questions I had along the way. As I have written elsewhere, I always "believed" in evolution because it seemed, on the surface, logical. However, after reading this ...             Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists19 reviews Benjamin Wiker, William Dembski InterVarsity Press, 2002 Epicurus set in motion an intellectual movement that Charles Darwin brought to completion According to John Maynard Keynes, great intellectual and cultural movements frequently trace back to thinkers who worked in obscurity and are now long forgotten. But some thinkers are both famous and influential. This book focuses on two such thinkers, one largely forgotten, the other a household name. The largely forgotten thinker is Epicurus. The household name is Charles Darwin. The two are ...             Creative Evolution: A Physicist's Resolution Between Darwinism and Intelligent Design3 reviews Amit Goswami Quest Books, 2008 Goswami Does It Again Quantum physicist and former professor Amit Goswami again demonstrates his ability to convey complex concepts in an understandable fashion. I believe that the gap between science and religion needs to be closed and I applaud another effort by Goswami to heal the rift.             The Island of Dr. Moreau75 reviews BompaCrazy.com, 2008 A freaky tale of man playing God. More of a horror than science fiction, THE ISLAND OF DR MOREAU is a disturbing and unforgettable book. Wells had a knack for making his stories come to life through the voice of the narrator, whom, as Pendrick in this book, seems like he's telling the story of something that really did happen. You can almost feel the emotion behind the words as Pendrick tells his tale. The almost-human ...             Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers: How Agriculture Really Began (Darwinism Today series)12 reviews Colin Tudge Yale University Press, 1999 A gift for the intellect The book barely caught my eye as it is so small, something like 5 X 8 in size and small as in 52 pages. I even wondered how much ionformation could someone share in 52 small pages. First off, this is a small book that is a series of short books by leading experts in evolutionary theory from the Darwin@LSE programme at the London School of Economics. Having said that, the book has 3 basic ...             Darwinism Under the Microscope: How Recent Scientific Evidence Points to Divine Design James P. Gills, Tom Woodward Creation House, 2002             Darwinism, Design, and Public Education (Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series)14 reviews Michigan State University Press, 2004 Scaling the Mount Everest of assumptions made by dogmatic neo-Darwinians It is refreshing that at least some healthy discussion has commenced regarding the literal plethora of misinformation on which most of the assumptions regarding Darwin's theory on the origin of the species are based. This book and others of its kind, though not exhaustive enough to tackle in only a single volume every aspect of the countless controversies surrounding Intelligent Design vs. ...             World History and the Eonic Effect: Civilization, Darwinism and Theories of Evolution, 3rd Edition7 reviews John C. Landon Xlibris Corporation, 2008 Landon's Mysterious Drumbeat John C. Landon's "Word History and the Eonic Effect" is a worthy read for anyone interested in cultural evolution and theories of evolution. Historicism, the belief that history unfolds from universal laws (leading to a blind induction without remainder), is exposed as fraud. The best example of fraud is Darwinism, the belief that macro-evolution is explained by random variation and natural ...              search for books agriculture, american, ancestor, civilization, creative, dangerous, darwinism, defeating, dehumanized, destruct, education, evolution, financial, hedonists, incorrect, intellectuals, intelligent, junkyard, literature, microscope, neanderthals, physicist, pilgrimage, politically, relentless, resolution, scientific, self-destruct, small-town, unconvincing books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen VHS: Rising Damp - Collection Set 1 (Rooksby/ Black Magic/ Night Out/ Gharisma/ ... leave a comment home  impressum - about us