TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fitch,Walter M.
TI  - The three failures of creationism: logic, rhetoric, and science 
SN  - 9780520951662 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BS651 
U1  - 231.7652 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Creationism
KW  - Religion and science
KW  - Logic
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - Faith and reason
KW  - fast
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Theology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Chapter 1. Logic, Logical Fallacies, and Rhetoric; Chapter 2. The Basics; Chapter 3. Some Simple Math and Statistics; Chapter 4. "Young- Earth" Creationism; Epilogue: The Literal Meaning of Genesis; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Annotated Reference List; Index
N2  - Walter M. Fitch, a pioneer in the study of molecular evolution, has written this cogent overview of why creationism fails with respect to all the fundamentals of scientific inquiry. He explains the basics of logic and rhetoric at the heart of scientific thinking, shows what a logical syllogism is, and tells how one can detect that an argument is logically fallacious, and therefore invalid, or even duplicitous. Fitch takes his readers through the arguments used by creationists to question the science of evolution. He clearly delineates the fallacies in logic that characterize creationist thinki
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