num_pages: 275
description: Denying Evolution aims at taking a fresh look at the evolutioncreation controversy. It presents a truly balanced treatment not in the sense of treating creationism as a legitimate scientific theory (it demonstrably is not) but in the sense of dividing the blame for the controversy equally between creationists and scientiststhe former for subscribing to various forms of anti-intellectualism the latter for discounting science education and presenting science as scientism to the public and the media. The central part of the book focuses on a series of creationist fallacies (aimed at showing errors of thought not at deriding) and of mistakes by scientists and science educators. The last part of the book discusses long-term solutions to the problem from better science teaching at all levels to the necessity of widespread understanding of how the brain works and why people have difficulties with critical thinking.
language: English
title: Denying Evolution: Creationism, Scientism, and the Nature of Science
publisher: Sinauer Associates, an Imprint of Oxford University Press