Evolution What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters

The Ape’s Reflection? 375 Swisher, C. C., III, G. H. Curtis, and R. Lewin. 2000. Java Man. New York: Scribner. Tattersall, I. 19 ...

FIGURE 16.1. Creationist attacks on science are not just attempts to replace evolutionary biology with religious dogma but to re ...

16 Why Does It Matter? Deceit in the Name of the Lord It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so staunchly and proud ...

378 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! inconsistencies between our beliefs about ourselves and our behavior. As George Orwell put i ...

Why Does It Matter? 379 Not to overdo the Fitzgerald, but I shall think of [the creationists] often, as day after day they beat ...

380 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! the availability of 24/7 news channels and unlimited Internet access, these people only read ...

Why Does It Matter? 381 What often shatters the beliefs of creationists, however, is not the misdeeds of their leaders, but the ...

382 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! In a democracy, it is very important that the public have a basic understanding of sci- ence ...

Why Does It Matter? 383 organisms. From this he showed that you could trace the ancestry of various creationist bills and docume ...

384 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! museums. Because the courts have turned them down every time, they resort to pressure tactic ...

Why Does It Matter? 385 “We’re going to arm you with Christian Patriot missiles,” Ham, 54, recently told 1,200 adults gathered a ...

386 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! of the Apes. Taylor, the marooned human astronaut (played, ironically, by the conservative i ...

Why Does It Matter? 387 America has fallen behind many other nations in technological and scientific suprem- acy, which threate ...

388 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! evolve resistance to whatever we throw at them. If creationists ran the labs that produce th ...

Why Does It Matter? 389 of immune rejection, given the baboon’s great evolutionary distance from humans. Bailey said, “Er, I fin ...

390 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! creationist like DeVos tries to cripple public education while funneling tax dollars to priv ...

Why Does It Matter? 391 tion, in which only 29 percent agreed that “Human beings evolved from earlier spe- cies,” but in a separ ...

392 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! 65 percent of Americans seem to accept evolution in some form, not the 55 percent that Gal- ...

Why Does It Matter? 393 In short, not only are the polls skewed by the way questions are written, but the trends are positive. Y ...

394 Evolution? The Fossils Say YES! that such an issue is driving people away from religious zealots in politics, and their caus ...