Evolution What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters

The first edition of this book was written in 2005 and came out in 2007, and a lot has happened in the past decade. Most importa ...

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Many people have guided my lifelong odyssey through science and religion. I am grateful to my brilliant pastor, the late Rev. Dr ...

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Time-Rock Units of the Geologic Column Time Units of the Geologic Time Scale (Numbers are numerical dates in millions of years b ...

Jawless fishes Sharks Ray-finned fish Lobe-finned fish Echinodermata Amphibians Lizards and snakes Crocodiles Birds Dinosaurs Tu ...

FIGURE 1.1. Scientists cannot revert to supernaturalism and invoke miracles, or their explanations will lead nowhere. (Cartoon c ...

1 The Nature of Science What Is Science? The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. —Th ...

4 Evolution and the Fossil Record In that regard, the scientific method is similar to many other human endeavors, such as mythol ...

The Nature of Science 5 logic of the scientific method. Science is not about final truth or “facts”; it is only about con- tinua ...

6 Evolution and the Fossil Record evolution during his 1980 campaign) said, “Well, it is a theory. It is a scientific theory onl ...

The Nature of Science 7 because maintaining the belief system is more important than allowing any inconvenient facts to undermin ...

8 Evolution and the Fossil Record There are a whole range of ideas that might be considered what Al Gore very aptly called “inco ...

The Nature of Science 9 Science is not perfect, of course. Scientists are human, and as humans, we do make mis- takes or may dev ...

10 Evolution and the Fossil Record More importantly, it is a classic example of a completely unfalsifiable theory of the world. ...

The Nature of Science 11 Another issue in the philosophy of science has come up as a result of the creationism con- troversy. Be ...

12 Evolution and the Fossil Record could be caused by evil spirits inside us trying to escape; stock market fluctuations could b ...

The Nature of Science 13 of whom we can have no reliable knowledge, is of no importance to us.” As Pennock (1999: 192) points ou ...

14 Evolution and the Fossil Record with the unknown or with dead loved ones, humans readily suspend these skeptical filters and ...