| Description |
459 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-442) and index. |
| Contents |
Unintelligent design. A consistent inconsistency: how William Dembski infers intelligent design ; Irreducible contradiction ; A militant dilettante in judgment of science -- Mental acrobatics: how religious writers prove the compatibility of the Bible with science. Verifying the eternal by means of the temporal? An introduction to the reviews of books asserting harmony between the Bible and science ; A crusade of arrogance ; The signature of an ignoramus: Canadian preacher Grant Jeffrey proves the Bible's inerrancy ; Show me proof: a preacher in a skeptic's diguise ; Challenging the challenge: did a book published over twenty years ago indeed prove the harmony between the Torah and science? ; The end of the beginning: Nathan Aviezer explains how to interpret the Book of Genesis ; Not a very Big Bang about Genesis: Gerald Schroeder calculates the duration of the six days of creation ; A lost chance: Lee Spetner derives nonrandom evolution from the Talmud -- Two bits of a general discussion and one telltale example. Science in the eyes of a scientist ; Improbable probabilities: assorted comments on some uses and misuses of probability theory ; The rise and fall of the Bible code. |
| Summary |
Physicist Mark Perakh critically reviews recent trends toward harmonizing religion and science, showing that, however sophisticated in appearance, all such approaches are little more than tailoring evidence to fit the desired theory. Beginning with three top intelligent design theorists, Perakh demonstrates lack of substantiation, internal contradictions, and multiple fallacies that mar their works. In Part Two he critiques the "mental acrobatics" of various writers whose works attempt to prove such unlikely propositions as: the inerrancy of the Bible, the harmony of the Torah and science, the duration of the six days of creation, and deriving a theory of nonrandom evolution from the Talmud. Part Three describes how genuine science is conducted, what the laws of science actually mean to practicing scientists, and what distinguishes real science from pseudoscience.--From publisher description. |
| Subject |
Religion and science.
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Bible and science.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Intelligent design (Teleology)
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| ISBN |
1591020840 alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
9781591020844 (alk. paper) 90000 |
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