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100 1 _aFitch, Walter M.,
_d1929-2011.
245 1 4 _aThe three failures of creationism :
_blogic, rhetoric, and science /
_cWalter M. Fitch.
260 _aCalifornia :
_bUniversity of California Press,
_c2012.
300 _a1 online resource (194 pages)
336 _atext
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505 0 _aCover; 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.
520 _aWalter 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.
650 0 _aCreationism.
650 0 _aReligion and science.
650 0 _aLogic.
650 0 _aEvolution (Biology)
650 0 _aFaith and reason.
650 7 _aCreationism.
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650 7 _aEvolution (Biology)
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650 7 _aFaith and reason.
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650 7 _aLogic.
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650 7 _aReligion and science.
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