Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism
The Case Against Creationism
$53.74
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
23 June 1983
Summary
Abusing Science is a manual for intellectual self-defense, the most complete available for presenting the case against Creationist pseudo-science. It is also a lucid exposition of the nature and methods of genuine science. The book begins with a concise introduction to evolutionary theory for non-scientists and closes with a rebuttal of the charge that this theory undermines religious and moral values. It will astonish many readers that this case must still be made in the 1980s, but since it …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262610377 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026261037X |
| Author: | Philip Kitcher |
| Publisher: | Mit Press |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 23 June 1983 |
| Weight: | 358g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 148mm x 227mm |
| Series: | Abusing Science |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
With his book, Abusing Science, Kitcher…takes his place beside such eloquent champions of Darwin’s theory as Thomas Huxley and Clarence Darrow.
-Jill Sapinsley Mooney, San Francisco Chronicle Such outfits as the Moral Majority and the Institute for Creation Research seem to have inherited the hot air waves, if not the wind. And this has alarmed Philip Kitcher, a philosopher of science at the University of Vermont, enough to give us this thoughtful and witty attack on ‘scientific creationism’…Dr. Kitcher has mixed a great deal of cold logic and history into his case, thereby creating a book that is as valuable as it is fun to read for scientists and nonscientists alike.
-James P. Sterba, The New York Times A marvelously lucid summary of the evidence for evolution and the overwhelming case against its enemies…. As a philosopher concerned with the way science operates, Kitcher is good at showing how creationists distort Karl Popper’s views on scientific method, and how they misuse such books as Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions. He is equally skillful at showing how creationists persist in quoting out of context Stephen Jay Gould and other ‘punctuationists’…
-Martin Gardner, Discover
Philip Kitcher
Philip Kitcher is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, and Director of its Center for the Philosophy of Science. Kitcher is the author of a searching book on “Scientific” Creationism, Abusing Science, published by The MIT Press in 1982.
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