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Is It Time to Abandon Darwin?

Author : Michael Barber
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291949305
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book Is It Time to Abandon Darwin? written by Michael Barber and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The road to acceptance for the theory of Darwin's Evolution has been a rocky one. But today it is under attack more than ever before. These attacks are no longer just from the religious arena, they are coming from the scientific community, and from highly respected individuals. This work postulates a new scientific theory, 'Dynamic Evolution', the ideas of which are demonstrated to be superior to the precepts of Darwin's theories. This is not a religious or philosophical approach. You will find within these pages a sound, scientifically based theory that will have no less an effect than to put the final nail in the coffin of Darwinian Evolution! This book offers a comprehensive challenge to the Darwinian premise that the diversity of life is explained solely by the natural selection and survival of the fittest. It will become apparent from a complete study of this work that the principles of Darwinian Evolution fall under the shadow of the complete picture provided by Dynamic Evolution.

Taking Leave of Darwin

Author : Neil Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781637120033
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Taking Leave of Darwin written by Neil Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: University professor Neil Thomas was a committed Darwinist and agnostic-until an investigation of evolutionary theory led him to a startling conclusion: "I had been conned!" As he studied the work of Darwin's defenders, he found himself encountering tactics eerily similar to the methods of political brainwashing he had studied as a scholar. Thomas felt impelled to write a book as a sort of warning call to humanity: "Beware! You have been fooled!" The result is Taking Leave of Darwin, a wide-ranging history of the evolution debate. Thomas uncovers many formidable Darwin opponents that most people know nothing about, ably distills crucial objections raised early and late against Darwinism, and shows that those objections have been explained away but never effectively answered. Thomas's deeply personal conclusion? Intelligent design is not only possible but, indeed, is presently the most reasonable explanation for the origin of life's great diversity of forms.

Cosmosapiens

Author : John Hands
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 146831324X
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Cosmosapiens written by John Hands and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A critical overview of scientific orthodoxy in an attempt to answer the fundamental questions “what are we?” and “why are we here?” (Kirkus Reviews). Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we as humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth? John Hands’s extraordinarily ambitious book merges scientific knowledge from multiple disciplines and evaluates without bias or preconception all the theories and evidence about the origin and evolution of matter, consciousness, and mankind. The result, a “pearl of dialectical reasoning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), provides the most comprehensive account yet of current ideas such as cosmic inflation, dark energy, the selfish gene, and neurogenetic determinism. In the clearest possible prose, it differentiates the firmly established from the speculative and examines the claims of various fields to approach a unified theory of everything. In doing so it challenges the orthodox consensus in those branches of cosmology, biology, and neuroscience that have ossified into dogma. Its “shocking and invigorating” analysis (Daily Telegraph, A Best Science Book of 2015) reveals underlying patterns of cooperation, complexification, and convergence that lead to the unique emergence in humans of a self-reflective consciousness that enables us to determine our future evolution. This groundbreaking book is destined to become a classic of scientific thinking. Praise for Cosmosapiens “This is a truly exceptional piece of work.” —Tim Crane, Knightsbridge Professor of Philosophy, The University of Cambridge “A game-changer. In the tradition of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, this lucidly written, penetrating analysis challenges us to rethink many things we take for granted about ourselves, our society, and our universe. It will become a classic.” —Peter Dreier, E P Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Occidental College “Hands is an astute observer of recent trends in scientific ideas bold enough to point out what he sees as sense and nonsense and intelligently explain why. Even in cases where one might disagree, the arguments are thought-provoking.” —Paul Steinhardt, Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Princeton University

Darwin's Evolving Identity

Author : Alistair Sponsel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022652325X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Darwin's Evolving Identity written by Alistair Sponsel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why—against his mentor’s exhortations to publish—did Charles Darwin take twenty years to reveal his theory of evolution by natural selection? In Darwin’s Evolving Identity, Alistair Sponsel argues that Darwin adopted this cautious approach to atone for his provocative theorizing as a young author spurred by that mentor, the geologist Charles Lyell. While we might expect him to have been tormented by guilt about his private study of evolution, Darwin was most distressed by harsh reactions to his published work on coral reefs, volcanoes, and earthquakes, judging himself guilty of an authorial “sin of speculation.” It was the battle to defend himself against charges of overzealous theorizing as a geologist, rather than the prospect of broader public outcry over evolution, which made Darwin such a cautious author of Origin of Species. Drawing on his own ambitious research in Darwin’s manuscripts and at the Beagle’s remotest ports of call, Sponsel takes us from the ocean to the Origin and beyond. He provides a vivid new picture of Darwin’s career as a voyaging naturalist and metropolitan author, and in doing so makes a bold argument about how we should understand the history of scientific theories.

Darwin's Doubt

Author : Stephen C. Meyer
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062071491
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Darwin's Doubt written by Stephen C. Meyer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, he thought that he had explained every clue, but one. Though his theory could explain many facts, Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. During this event, the “Cambrian explosion,” many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock. In Darwin’s Doubt, Stephen C. Meyer tells the story of the mystery surrounding this explosion of animal life—a mystery that has intensified, not only because the expected ancestors of these animals have not been found, but because scientists have learned more about what it takes to construct an animal. During the last half century, biologists have come to appreciate the central importance of biological information—stored in DNA and elsewhere in cells—to building animal forms. Expanding on the compelling case he presented in his last book, Signature in the Cell, Meyer argues that the origin of this information, as well as other mysterious features of the Cambrian event, are best explained by intelligent design, rather than purely undirected evolutionary processes.

A Generation Abandoned

Author : Peter D. Beaulieu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761869123
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book A Generation Abandoned written by Peter D. Beaulieu and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-04-26 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Generation Abandoned explores the disruptive cultural events especially of the past half century as these have undermined the confidence of the young in themselves and in civil society, and finally in our place in the universe. The overall theme is the contrast between this sense of abandonment and our inborn and neglected orientation toward personal worth and the common good (the natural law). Much of what is peddled as “social evolution” today is shown to be a throwback to darker times. The analysis submits to a refreshingly conversational tone, but also draws incisively from a very broad pallet of history, literature, theater, theology, and simplifying and illuminating anecdotes (some of them first hand). An early chapter outlines the “perfect storm” of the 1960s. Later chapters expose the word games of the cultural elite, the saga of the family through history and now its abrupt erosion, and the difference between any meandering “arc of history” and a more grounded arc of relations—our rationalized “culture of death” versus a flourishing “human ecology.”

Only a Theory

Author : Kenneth Raymond Miller
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780670018833
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Only a Theory written by Kenneth Raymond Miller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluates the debate between advocates for evolution and intelligent design which occured during the 2005 Dover evolution trial, dissecting the claims of the intelligent design movement and explaining why the conflict is compromising America's position a

The Collapse of Darwinism, Or, The Rise of a Realist Theory of Life

Author : Graeme Donald Snooks
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739106136
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Collapse of Darwinism, Or, The Rise of a Realist Theory of Life written by Graeme Donald Snooks and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative work, noted social and economic theorist Graeme D. Snooks exposes fatal flaws in the foundations of the Darwinian theory of evolution, which he deems an "artificial algorithm," as well as the neo-Darwinian synthesis adopted by many social scientists. Utilizing the historical method, Snooks develops a remarkable replacement theory of evolution, which he calls the "dynamic-strategy" theory. While the neo-Darwinian position places too great an emphasis on genetic change--giving rise to untenable but popular concepts such as the "selfish gene"--and fails to explain the fluctuating fortunes of life's most successful species (mankind), Snooks' framework starts by systematically observing the broad patterns of life and human society. The resultant realist theory of life posits life as a strategic pursuit (rather than a game of chance) in which organisms adopt dynamic strategies (only one of which is genetic change) to survive and prosper. Organisms' and species' progress is achieved through "strategic selection"--a concept that displaces the "divine selection" of creationists and the "natural selection" of Darwinists. This new theory reveals the organism as empowered, rather than as the plaything of gods, genes, or blind chance; and it provides a new basis for humanism.

The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674417933
Total Pages : 1099 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book The Structure of Evolutionary Theory written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-21 with total page 1099 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time--a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision. With characteristic attention to detail, Stephen Jay Gould first describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of classical Darwinism: that natural selection works on organisms, not genes or species; that it is almost exclusively the mechanism of adaptive evolutionary change; and that these changes are incremental, not drastic. Next, he examines the three critiques that currently challenge this classic Darwinian edifice: that selection operates on multiple levels, from the gene to the group; that evolution proceeds by a variety of mechanisms, not just natural selection; and that causes operating at broader scales, including catastrophes, have figured prominently in the course of evolution. Then, in a stunning tour de force that will likely stimulate discussion and debate for decades, Gould proposes his own system for integrating these classical commitments and contemporary critiques into a new structure of evolutionary thought. In 2001 the Library of Congress named Stephen Jay Gould one of America's eighty-three Living Legends--people who embody the "quintessentially American ideal of individual creativity, conviction, dedication, and exuberance." Each of these qualities finds full expression in this peerless work, the likes of which the scientific world has not seen--and may not see again--for well over a century.

Darwin in Galápagos

Author : K. Thalia Grant
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691142106
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Darwin in Galápagos written by K. Thalia Grant and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreates the scientist's historic visit to the Galapagos Islands using his original notebooks and logs, the latest findings by scholars and researchers, and the authors' first-hand knowledge of the archipelago.

Leaving Home

Author : David P. Celani
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231134762
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Leaving Home written by David P. Celani and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giving up family attachments that failed to meet our needs as children, David Celani argues, is the hardest psychological task an adult can undertake. Yet the reality is that many adults re-create the most painful aspects of their early relationships with their parents in new relationships with peers and romantic partners, frustrating themselves and discouraging them from leaving their family of origin. Leaving Home emphasizes the life-saving benefits of separating from destructive parents and offers a viable program for personal emancipation.

Leaving the Cave

Author : Pat Duffy Hutcheon
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889202583
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Leaving the Cave written by Pat Duffy Hutcheon and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1996-05-31 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can one explain the general failure of the social sciences to accumulate reliable knowledge? According to Pat Duffy Hutcheon the social sciences have failed us in the twentieth century. Practitioners in the social realm (such as politicians, therapists, educators and economists) are unable to provide the answers we seek to meet the challenges of our everyday lives and the next millennium. In Leaving the Cave Hutcheon explores the reasons for this failure. In this pioneering study of the development of social and biological evolutionary theory she contends that, for the first time in history, there exists a paradigm capable of integrating the life sciences and the social/behavioural sciences, a model to make effective social science a reality. To illustrate her arguments Hutcheon traces the development of a current of thought she identifies as evolutionary naturalism. She focusses on the lives and writings of those thinkers who have most illuminated this philosophy, from the Hellenic Greeks, through the works of the early pioneers of modern social scientific thought, to the social theorists of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries whose ideas have been firmly rooted in the Darwinian and Pavlovian revolutions in biology and neuroscience. Leaving the Cave is an innovative, multidisciplinary study of the development of social science, the philosophy of evolutionary naturalism and the effect of each on the other. Certain to arouse controversy, this is a book which everyone concerned for the future of the social sciences will want to read.

Darwin's Garden

Author : Michael Boulter
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582435588
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Darwin's Garden written by Michael Boulter and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five years after returning from his trip around the world, young Charles Darwin became the owner of Down House in Kent, England, where he moved his growing family, far away from the turmoil and distractions of London. He would live there for the rest of his life, and it would become the place where he began work on his masterpiece, On the Origin of Species. For almost twenty years, he used the garden around him as a laboratory. In the orchard, he conducted experiments on pollination. He built a dovecote where breeding new strains of pigeons helped him understand the intricacies of generation. On his daily walk along the sandbank, he observed how plants competed for survival. In solitude he struggled with the ideas of evolution that had haunted him since his voyage, which, in turn, gave him the courage to publish his revolutionary ideas. Bringing Darwin's garden to the present day, Boulter unfolds a shining portrait of the formation of one of England's greatest thinkers and his relationship with the place he loved, and shows how his experiments—conducted more than 150 years ago—are still revealing new proofs as we continue to search for the origins of life.

Darwinism

Author : Mark Fuson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462070329
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Darwinism written by Mark Fuson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darwin Foster has become a werewolf through unknown means, and with each passing day his bloodlust is growing. The young man, damaged through years of abuse and neglect, is ready to exact his revenge on his home town of New Haven. As his lycanthropic desire consumes him, Darwin begins his slaughter. Through his own carelessness he finds himself under investigation by the local police and he knows they will soon arrest him. In one rash decision, to prevent his incarceration, Darwin begins making more werewolves, starting with the police investigators. Before long Darwin finds himself in the leadership role of an ever expanding pack of hungry werewolves. Feeling superior, Darwin, with the help of his council of wolves, makes a plan to take over the entire town, eliminating anyone seen as unworthy of receiving "the gift" of lycanthropy. A list of citizens is drawn up and soon the undesirable humans of New Haven find themselves being rounded up and sent to a make shift detention center in the abandoned coal mine called "Special Handling". Here they wait... for their invitation to dinner. Evolution of the Species has begun! Which side will you be selected for? Look for the exciting sequel to "Darwinism" with "Wolf Asylum" to be released in 2014!

The Charles Colson Collection: The Good Life / How Now Shall We Live?

Author : Charles Colson
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1496425057
Total Pages : 919 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book The Charles Colson Collection: The Good Life / How Now Shall We Live? written by Charles Colson and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 919 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection bundles two of popular author Chuck Colson’s classics into one volume for a great value! The Good Life What constitutes “the good life?” Chuck Colson explores the ways in which people define and live “the pursuit of happiness.” Colson uses fascinating real-life stories to illustrate the philosophies and worldviews by which individuals seek the good life. Colson speaks directly and revealingly about his Watergate years, and he examines the beliefs and assumptions that make up the fabric of our lives. The Good Life searches for answers to the questions we all ask: Who am I? Why am I here? How can I make my life count? How Now Shall We Live? True Christianity goes far beyond John 3:16—beyond private faith and personal salvation. It is nothing less than a framework for understanding all of reality. It is a worldview. In How Now Shall We Live?, the 2000 Gold Medallion winner for best book about Christianity and society, Chuck Colson and Nancy Pearcey show that the great spiritual battle today is a cosmic struggle between competing worldviews. Through inspiring true stories and compelling teaching, they demonstrate how to Expose the false views and values of modern culture Live a more fulfilling life the way God created us to live Contend for the faith by understanding how nonbelievers think Build a society that reflects biblical principles In short, How Now Shall We Live? will give you the confidence you need to make a difference in the world today and most of all in the lives of people around you.

Darwin's Fox and My Coyote

Author : H. M. Menino
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813926759
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Darwin's Fox and My Coyote written by H. M. Menino and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holly Menino is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in National Geographic and Smithsonian. She is the author of Calls beyond Our Hearing: Unlocking the Secrets of Animal Voices and Forward Motion: Horses, Humans, and the Competitive Enterprise.

Replacing Darwin

Author : Nathaniel T Jeanson
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1614586349
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Replacing Darwin written by Nathaniel T Jeanson and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Darwin were to examine the evidence today using modern science, would his conclusions be the same? Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, published over 150 years ago, is considered one of history’s most influential books and continues to serve as the foundation of thought for evolutionary biology. Since Darwin’s time, however, new fields of science have immerged that simply give us better answers to the question of origins. With a Ph.D. in cell and developmental biology from Harvard University, Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson is uniquely qualified to investigate what genetics reveal about origins. The Origins Puzzle Comes Together If the science surrounding origins were a puzzle, Darwin would have had fewer than 15% of the pieces to work with when he developed his theory of evolution. We now have a much greater percentage of the pieces because of modern scientific research. As Dr. Jeanson puts the new pieces together, a whole new picture emerges, giving us a testable, predictive model to explain the origin of species. A New Scientific Revolution Begins Darwin’s theory of evolution may be one of science’s “sacred cows,” but genetics research is proving it wrong. Changing an entrenched narrative, even if it’s wrong, is no easy task. Replacing Darwin asks you to consider the possibility that, based on genetics research, our origins are more easily understood in the context of . . . In the beginning . . . God, with the timeline found in the biblical narrative of Genesis. There is a better answer to the origins debate than what we have been led to believe. Let the revolution begin! About the Author Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson is a scientist and a scholar, trained in one of the most prestigious universities in the world. He earned his B.S. in Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and his PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology from Harvard University. As an undergraduate, he researched the molecular control of photosynthesis, and his graduate work involved investigating the molecular and physiological control of adult blood stem cells. His findings have been presented at regional and national conferences and have been published in peer-reviewed journals, such as Blood, Nature, and Cell. Since 2009, he has been actively researching the origin of species, both at the Institute for Creation Research and at Answers in Genesis.