The Three Failures of Creationism : Logic, Rhetoric, and Science
by
 
Fitch, Walter M., 1929-2011.

Title
The Three Failures of Creationism : Logic, Rhetoric, and Science

Author
Fitch, Walter M., 1929-2011.

ISBN
9780520951662
 
9781283373555

Publication Information
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012.

Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 177 pages) : illustrations

Abstract
"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"--Provided by publisher.

Subject Term
Creationism.
 
Religion and science.
 
Logic.
 
Evolution (Biology)
 
Faith and reason.

Electronic Access
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnn5n


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