"An interesting analysis of a controversy that just won't go away."- Science Books & Films
Is "creation science" really scientific'? What criteria, if any. exist for identifying a discipline as science'? This collection of essays answers these questions and many more about the creation/evolution controversy and the very nature of science itself. It takes as its point of departure the editor's experience as an expert witness in a creation "science" test case in Arkansas.
The works of prominent evolutionists and creationists acre collected and organized to define the boundaries between science and religion. Contributors include Francisco J. Ayala, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Duane T, Gish, Stephen Jay Gould, T.H, Huxley, Larry Laudan, Ronald L. Numbers, Judge William R. Overton, William Paley. Sir Karl Popper, Philip L. Quirnn, Michael Ruse, Adam Sedgwick, and John Maynard Smith.
Michael Ruse is professor of philosophy and history at the University of Guelph, Ontario.
406 pp (IIIustrations Glossary)
ISBN 1-57392-087-8 Paper £19.50 $22.95