Denying Evolution: Creationism, Scientism, and the Nature of Science

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 275 pages
• Published by: Sinauer Associates
• Edition: 1st Edition June 2002
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0878936599
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0878936595
• Book Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 8 ounces

Product Review
"Massimo Pigliucci’s finest work to date. … a penetrating, timely analysis of why the controversy still exists" -- Shawn Dawson, Free Inquiry

buy, beg or borrow it and read it before you next find yourself caught up in the ‘debate.’" -- John S. Edwards, Integrative and Comparative Biology

Denying Evolution is informative, interesting, and here and there entertaining. It has my strongest recommendation." -- William D. Anderson, Jr., Copeia

It is multifaceted, fascinating, and essential. -- Brian Alters, The Quarterly Review of Biology

Pigliucci presents the most powerful and readable treatise on the evolution–creationism debate to come along in decades. -- Michael Shermer, Publisher, Skeptic magazine, and Contributing Editor, Scientific American

Product Description
"Denying Evolution" aims at taking a fresh look at the evolution creation controversy, dividing the blame equally between creationists and scientists: the former for subscribing to various forms of anti-intellectualism, the latter for discounting science education and presenting science as scientism to the public and the media.

Reader Reviews
I have to give this book a less than perfect rating because I'm not quite sure what was the purpose of the book. I bought the book, thinking it was a manual on arguing with Creationists, but then I found a disclaimer clause in the book stating that it was not. "What good is half an eye?" Creationists ask us this question over and over, and I would like to answer it. Pigliucci only gives us is a reference to a journal article on this question. How can we answer the numerous arguments in "Darwin's Black Box" by Michael Behe? Pigliucci provides some rebuttal, but not much. Rather, he tosses off this responsibility by referring us to the talkorigins Website. I appreciate the references, but I had hoped to do all my shopping in one stop. And how about another tough challenger--"Icons of Evolution" by Jonathan Wells? He spends a few pages on this book, but not enough. He uses technical terms which he doesn't define, and he hastily presents arguments without clearly spelling out each premise. Is this book a history of the Creationist-Evolutionist dispute? It seems that way somewhat, but it doesn't stick to that subject either. But it's an interesting book, and a very informative book. That's why I give it an almost perfect rating.