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Postcards from The Wedge: review and commentary on Explore Evolution
Wiley Interscience ^ | 19 Jan 2009 | Brian D. Metscher

Posted on 01/25/2009 9:55:41 PM PST by cacoethes_resipisco

Postcards from The Wedge: review and commentary on Explore Evolution: The Arguments For and Against Neo-Darwinism by Steven C. Meyer et al. Brian D. Metscher a a Department of Theoretical Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Correspondence (email: brian.metscher@univie.ac.at) Copyright Journal compilation © 2009 Wiley Periodicals ABSTRACT

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DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI) 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00309.x About DOI

Explore Evolution: The Arguments For and Against Neo-Darwinism by Steven C. Meyer et al. 2007 . Hill House Publishers, Melbourne & London . ISBN 0-947352-48-6 . The latest out of the Discovery Institute is 159 glossy pages of color-illustrated creationist nostalgia published by Hill House Publishers, best known for lavish butterfly books by their founder, antievolution lepidopterist Bernard d'Abrera. All the old favorites are here—fossils saying no, all the Icons, flightless Ubx flies, irreducible flagella, even that irritating homology-is-circular thing. There are no new arguments, no improved understanding of evolution, just a remastered scrapbook of the old ideas patched together in a high-gloss package pre-adapted to survive the post-Dover legal environment. The whole effort would be merely pathetic if it did not actually represent a serious and insidious threat to education...

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: evolution; science
Repackaged creationism is just creationism.
1 posted on 01/25/2009 9:55:41 PM PST by cacoethes_resipisco
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Postcards from The Wedge

Sweet Title!


2 posted on 01/25/2009 10:12:04 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - Horace Walpole)
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3 posted on 01/26/2009 2:30:07 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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Tagline bump.


4 posted on 01/26/2009 5:47:59 AM PST by Darwin Fish (God invented evolution. Man invented religion.)
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