Scientists Confront Creationism

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'''''Scientists Confront Creationism''''' is a collection of essays pertaining to [[creation science]], published in 1984 by Norton Paperbacks.<ref>''Scientists Confront Creationism'', edited by Laurie R. Godfrey (1984). W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0393301540.</ref>  This is one of the first books to directly attack the arguments offered by creation science, rather than just discussing the veracity of [[evolution]] itself.   

==Contributors==
*'''George O. Abell''' Ph.D. [[astronomy]]: on the age of the [[Earth]] and creationists' common mischaracterization of the reliability of [[radiometric dating]].
*'''C. Loring Brace''' Ph.D. [[anthropology]]: dismisses the idea that [[humans]] are "new" (like 6,000 years new) to the planet by providing mounds of anthropological evidence of civilizations older than 6,000 years.
*'''Stephen G. Brush''' Ph.D. theoretical [[physics]]
*'''John R. Cole''' Ph.D. anthropology
*'''Joel L. Cracraft''' Ph.D. [[biology]]
*'''Russell F. Doolittle''' Ph.D. [[chemistry]]: on debunking the [[Probability#Misuse_by_creationists|"probability" argument]].
*'''Frederick Edwords''': administrator of the American Humanist Association.
*'''Laurie R. Godfrey''' Ph.D. anthropology: specifically addresses the creationist claim that gaps in the fossil records undermine evolution.
*'''Stephen J. Gould''' Ph.D. professor of [[geology]]: does what [[Stephen Jay Gould| Gould]] does best: eviscerate creationist lies.
*'''Thomas H. Jukes''' Ph.D.: [[biochemistry]] on the then-new molecular evidence for evolution.
*'''Alice B. Kehoe''' professor of anthropology and expert on the cultures of pre-Columbian North Americans.
*'''John W. Patterson''' M.S. mining engineering: explains and debunks the chronic bad habit of [[Second law of thermodynamics#Misapplication by creationists|creationists using the 2<sup>nd</sup> Law of Thermodynamics to "disprove" evolution]].
*'''David M. Raup''' Ph.D. [[paleontology]]: retired department head of the University of Chicago Department of Geophysical Sciences and curator of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, specifically debunks "[[Flood geology]]".
*'''Robert J. Schadewald''': freelance science writer.
*'''Steven D. Schafersman''' Ph.D. geology: debunks the common creationist canard that "evolution is based on unproven preconceptions" that lead to [[confirmation bias]] and flawed conclusions.

A new edition of the book with different chapters was published in 2008 to confront [[intelligent design]].<ref>''Scientists Confront Creationism: Intelligent Design and Beyond'', edited by Andrew J. Petto & Laurie R. Godfrey (editors) (2008). W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0393330737.</ref>

==External links==
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=bjYPs9siZzgC&dq=&pg=PP1&ots=lSLoq0zT6G&sig=977iM1VVasnWN4DqXpMhOwtNnJQ&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3Da0M%26sa%3DX%26oi%3Dspell%26resnum%3D0%26ct%3Dresult%26cd%3D1%26q%3DScientists%2Bconfront%2Bcreationism%26spell%3D1&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title Google books]
*Website of the [http://www.americanhumanist.org American Humanist Association].

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