The Case Against Darwin: Why the Evidence Should Be Examined

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The Case Against Darwin is James Perloff's newest title on the creation-evolution debate. Written from a creationist perspective, this 83-page book is a primer for those unfamiliar with the subject, and too busy for a full-length book such as the author's earlier Tornado in a Junkyard.

Perloff first explores the social impact of Darwinism to establish the relevance of the topic. Then, in layman's language, he discusses the growing body of evidence that is invalidating Darwin's theory of evolution: evidence from genetics, origins science, biochemistry, paleontology, taxonomy and molecular biology. Finally, he examines fallacies of certain evidences commonly said to support Darwin's theory: Ernst Haeckel's embryo drawings, vestigial organs, salt percentages in blood and seawater, babies born with "monkey tails," peppered moths, microevolution, and similarity as a proof of common descent.

Despite the scientific nature of the material, Perloff keeps it light and short, and most readers should find The Case Against Darwin an easy read.

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disappointing.......2007-09-12

I've read all the reviews here and I must say they all baffle me a little. There's simply not enough here to either hate or proclaim as the greatest thing since sliced bread. There's very little current religious thinking and I couldn't find any real science despite going back through it quite carefully. There are numerous valuable books on both sides of this debate, but unfortunately this isn't one of them.

Common Sense not based upon theory but fact.......2007-08-18

This was a great book. I enjoyed the refrences as well. It is a great starting place to part the fog that clouds most people's minds. Prove what you hear and read, don't just accept it because they are "scholars" or so called "scientists".

Fails at its Proclaimed Objective.......2006-10-13

Because its proclaimed objective is an impossibility.

All Perloff does is reiterate the same tired nonsensical "evidence against" the very real process of natural selection. Perloff's "arguments" have been repeatedly and summarily dismissed by the scientific community as either ignorance or willful misrepresentation of fact.

The notion that Science avoids the claims of so-called critics of evolutionary theory is both ironic and laughable given the fingers in the ears approach that "creationism" generally takes to the subject.

To call this book "logical" is to dilute the meaning of logic to the level of the superstitious pap that goes by the name of "intelligent-design".

Simple and straight to the point.......2005-10-12

For someone who didn't know there were any arguments against Darwinism, this book is small, easy to read and to the point. It summarizes a number of important arguments against Darwinism. It is a good "starter" book and has some references to some other books that the reader can follow up with if they are interested in pursuing this topic further.

However, don't expect this book to present you with "irrefutable evidence". If you don't have an open mind about the subject, this book will probably not force it open. But if you do have an open mind, it will point out some areas of the Darwinian theory that don't stand up against serious scrutiny. And given today's scientific bias, this may surprise you and awaken a desire to understand the issues in greater depth.

Therefore, I heartily recommend it.

Science, logic and clarity.......2005-09-14

The emperor has no clothes. Someone had to say it, and more and more scientists are choosing science over the religion of Darwinian evolution. Many of the books exposing macro-evolution as a fraud are written by scientists, and a bit over my head; James Perloff is a superb author, and puts matters clearly, with plenty of evidence from evolutionists. Only a totally closed-minded person would fail to be disturbed at the problems with evolution and the lies our children are being fed.

Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism

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Digging through the Dirt
This is one tower that's not coming down.
A Must Read!
Tower of Babel: Refuting Creationist Babble
The Evolution of Creationism

Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism
Robert T. Pennock
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The face of creationism has been through some major plastic surgery in the past decade or so. The leading proponents of "intelligent design theory" have left the ranting flat-earth types behind and found respected positions in the academic world from which to launch attacks on mainstream science. Philosopher of science Robert T. Pennock has explored all sides of the ongoing debate, which remains (despite the protestations of many creationists) more about biblical inerrancy than scientific evidence. His book Tower of Babel examines the new directions antievolutionists have taken lately, but goes beyond a mere recounting of recent history by proposing a new avenue of counterattack: linguistics.

The parallels are striking once we look closely: Genesis proclaims that God created all human languages at one stroke, while modern scientific thought proposes linguistic evolution similar in form to genetics. Best of all for scientists, though, linguistic change is much more rapid than biological change, and we have actually observed what might be called "speciation events" to have occurred historically in languages. While not meant to supplant traditional arguments against creationism, Pennock's ideas certainly supplement them and will be useful to educators and researchers alike. His sense of urgency is compelling; he sees the future of scientific education and freedom at stake and argues strongly for a separation between private beliefs and public knowledge. --Rob Lightner

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In Tower of Babel, philosopher Robert Pennock compares the views of the new creationists with those of the old and reveals the insubstantiality of their arguments. One of Pennock's major innovations is to turn from biological evolution to the less-charged subject of linguistic evolution, which has strong theoretical parallels with biological evolution both in content and in the sort of evidence scientists use to draw conclusions about origins.

Several chapters deal with the work of Phillip Johnson, a highly influential leader of the new creationists. Pennock explains how science uses naturalism and discusses the relationship between factual and moral issues in the creationism-evolution controversy. The book also includes a discussion of Darwin's own shift from creationist to evolutionist and an extended argument for keeping private religious beliefs separate from public scientific knowledge.

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Digging through the Dirt.......2007-09-03

The sheer visceral emotion invested into the Darwin-design debate is truly staggering. We can already witness this vitriol directly on the Amazon discussion boards. Thus, I can credit Robert Pennock for a mild tone in "Tower of Babel: Evidence against the New Creationism", but this does not mean he is exempt from throwing the usual sneering sludge that permeates both sides of the debate (with Richard Dawkins and Phillip Johnson being the North/South polar extremes). Along with the toxic rhetoric, while the bigwigs of the debate are cruising 90-MPH in massive SUVs on a bare freeway that is accelerating towards a metropolis of truth, poor Pennock and his book are left to pick up odd-looking pinecones on an obscure dirt road, deep within the woods, away from the action. This is meant to say that his book is a sideshow, and a rather poor one at that, blocking the real clashing of swords by such muskateers as Dawkins, Johnson, Michael Behe, Sam Harris, William Dembski and Daniel Dennett. This is not to say that there are not worthwhile insights in "Tower of Babel", but that you as a critical reader of this discussion would benefit more from works by the authors mentioned above.

Pennock's refutations of the YEC (young-earth creationism) camp consumes a lot of attention in the book, which is what makes this work such more verbose and less cogent than it should`ve been. The author exaggerates the influence and notable academic attention that are given to these people, which is to say it is virtually very little attention. There have been other works demonstrating the false science and lame inferences derived from groups like "Answers in Genesis" and the Institution of Creation Research. These books and articles can be found online and in popular literature from both intelligent design advocates and secular humanists like Dawkins. Why beat a dead horse? Also given too much time is the debate about the political forces regarding creationism in the classroom. Again, it has been done.

Chapter 4, entitled "Of Naturalism and Negativity", is generally a decent one, and the author distinguishes well the concepts of methodological naturalism and ontological naturalism. Methodological naturalism, of course, is a path of inquiry that is no way antithetical to Christian theism. We certainly do not posit a supernatural explanation for every observable natural phenomenon, nor even for most phenomena. I think Pennock makes an error here by claiming that because Christian scientists allow for the possibility of a supernatural explanation, then they necessarily will abuse the concept, or try to discover a supernatural cause for everything we cannot explain. This is the heart of hype about the "God of the Gaps" stuff. I do not think ID advocates like Behe and William Dembski introduce their theories about intelligent design into biology because of some pernicious God-of-the-Gaps strategy or for undermining Darwin's proposal of common descent with a certain religion's view, but because methodological naturalism has been exhausted time and again since the publication of "Origin of the Species". This, of course, does not mean that methodological naturalism should be discarded or will not discover an answer in light of new evidence sometime in the future. But for now, we do not have this new evidence, and who knows how long we will wait out for it. I hardly think this constitutes "burning science at the stake" or even as a provocation to end funding for new naturalistic research. Funding nowadays, of course, is always terminated for ID research, not for naturalistic research.

Pennock also takes some good hits against Phillip Johnson, some that work, some that do not. However, Pennock, in an attempt to discredit Johnson on his main point about ontological naturalism being intrinsic to evolutionary biology, states,

"Johnson claims that evolutionary biologists assume this sort of positivistic philosophy, but certainly evolutionary biology as a science does not have to do so, and it is hard to believe even that any scientist who has kept abreast of developments in philosophy of science would affirm this support of ontological naturalism." (Page 193)

Of course, evolutionary biology as a science does not have to assume the charge of naturalism that Johnson so criticizes, but I think Pennock misses the point in believing that "any scientist" keeping up the philosophy in science would grant ontological naturalism any adherence. Richard Dawkins, I think, would say different. So too would Daniel Dennett. In fact, Dawkins expressed in "God Delusion" that those who do not give in to ontological naturalism are severely mistaken as practicing scientists. How would Pennock not realize this? He cites Dawkins quite often in "Tower of Babel". Pennock, of course, IS a professor of philosophy of science, who would presume to know more about the subject than Dawkins, a zoologist. Pennock instead says on the same page that G.G. Simpson and Stephen Jay Gould are methodological naturalists, not ontological naturalists, which is why he thinks Johnson raises that objection unfairly against them. I do not know enough about Simpson and Gould's personal philosophies, but perhaps they are not ontological naturalists, and yet Pennock as a philosopher of science believes it incredulous that any scientist would support such a belief, but Dawkins and Dennett certainly do.

Although the book is generally lukewarm in its rhetoric, it does occasionally take its angry swipes at Christian theists, as most agnostics and atheists tend to do, decrying them as believing in something that faces strong countervailing evidence (Dawkins and his books make this severe error also). As an ex-atheist myself, I understand the euphoric feelings that accompany a fun and furious rhetorical punch against "fundamentalist freaks" and "right-wing crack jobs." I enjoyed doing it, too. However, there comes a time where you must educate yourself in reality and all the things that you did not think were there but are. Read David Marshall's reviews here on Amazon, or go to his website, to discover that this description of Christian faith is false and grossly misleading.

"Tower of Babel" has some decent nuggets piled below mounds of dirt, which is ultimately why I decided on two stars than three.

This is one tower that's not coming down........2007-02-13

Very well written and easy to read.

A Must Read!.......2007-01-07

Not as quick and clean as Abusing Science (Philip Kitcher, ISBN 026261037X) but still necessary intellectual self defense against those zealots who prey on ignorance and rely on misinformation. In a world that seems to be slipping into darkness this book is a beacon of intellectual light! The same is true for The Blind Watchmaker (Richard Dawkins, ISBN-10: 0393304485).
Required reading for all science teachers!

Tower of Babel: Refuting Creationist Babble.......2006-11-03

"Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism" is a cogent history of creationism and its sophistic spawn "creation science" - and a devastating refutation of the inane bibliolatrous arguments utilized by anti-Darwinists as the gaps available for polemics become increasingly circumscribed by the explanatory power of science. Pennock refutes creationist babble through a novel discussion of linguistic evolution and pays special attention to Paleyesque fallacies embedded in the "Intelligent Design" movement.

Pennock's bestiary classifies all anti-evolution Christians as creationists - kinds include Young Earth Creationists, Old Earth Creationists, Evolutionary Creationists, Progressive Creationists, and Intelligent Design Creationists - squabbling schisms whose theologically impelled supernaturalism places all variants well outside a scientific mainstream united in support of methodological naturalism.

Internecine creationist spats receive a useful historical, theological, and social context treatment, and the preponderance of crank creationist websites is ruefully noted - along with their intellectual and ethical squalor. Pennock debunks the most egregious examples, including the infamous "Lady Hope" hoax (Darwin's fraudulent deathbed conversion and recantation).

After lampooning creationist comedy websites (Google AiG for a slick but sick example), Pennock discusses the Genesis myth meme echoed in the title - the Tower of Babel. Scholars realized that languages were shaped by evolutionary processes and common descent before Darwin burst on the scene. Biological and linguistic evolution contradicts special revelation hallucination, and both have been obdurately attacked by bloviating biblical literalists. Like species and higher biological taxa, languages blur at boundaries and form sub-taxon variants known as dialects. Pennock utilizes these facts to illustrate creationist misinformation about evolution, including the spurious missing link objection, and epistemological issues encountered when science deals with past events - particularly the lack of direct observation and the status of evolution as both factual and theoretical.

Utilizing language illustrates evolutionary taxonomy (classification) and phylogeny (development) and "descent over time with modification" as spoken languages developed from precursors (e.g. Romance languages from Indo-European and Proto-Indo European). This approach exhibits the same quirks as biological evolution including loss through extinction, incomplete preservation, convergence, and horizontal transfer.

Neo-medieval creationists crib from postmodernist rivals by asserting that Darwinism is "a secular religion." Both also deny that human cognitive enterprises can approach the truth. Pennock skewers figures such as Alvin Plantinga, Paul Nelson, William Dembski, Michael Behe, and Philip Johnson who proffer ostensibly 'scientific' lines of reasoning that devolve into theological hand waving and philosophical special pleading upon close examination. Johnson's implicit conflation of ontological naturalism (materialism) with methodological naturalism is artfully deconstructed and Pennock shows that if science were to embrace miracles it would become useless as a way of knowing; an omnipotent and capricious deity would pull seemingly empirical strings. Pennock's characterization of Intelligent Design as a 'science of the gaps' that hamstrings what science could in principle explain is devastating - and portends rampant intellectual sloth "God said/did it, that settles it" - along with endemic theological or political meddling.

Pennock utilizes one of Behe's own examples to shred 'irreducibly complex' systems. Behe lays out the probability that a groundhog could mate across an eight-lane freeway to rebut speciation and adaptation. Pennock's version substitutes a population of groundhogs with survivors who make it to the center divider and reproduce before tackling the next lane, succinctly illustrating Darwinian processes. Behe's claims are then related to Dembski's opaque notion of 'complex specified information' (CSI) an arcane reimagining of Aquinas's argument from design and a mathematically absurd attempt to turn information theory against Darwin. Pennock lucidly explains what is wrong with CSI without overwhelming the reader with mathematical equations or technical terms - unlike Dembski who deliberately uses both to camouflage vacuous arguments.

Creationism and politics go together in America like bibles and thumping. The tortuous maneuvers creationists use to cross-dress theologically motivated political and educational agendas as science are exposed in detail. Creationists incessantly beaver away at court rulings prohibiting state funded public schools from promoting a religious viewpoint with bunko biblical hermeneutics and revelation repackaged as research. Pennock's defense of reason and science in the face of rampant superstition and magical thinking is passionate and compelling - and should be read into the minutes of every local school board or curriculum standards committee meeting.

Highly recommended on all counts - this is an erudite and necessary book.

The Evolution of Creationism.......2006-11-03

This is a rich and textured work. Pennock weaves together evolution, intelligent design, and literal creationism into an unexpectedly coherent tapestry.

I think some descriptions of this book do it a disservice, claiming that the point of the book is comparing language evolution with biological evolution. It is true, Pennock has that rather novel idea, which helps the reader better grasp the certainty of evolution. A literal reading of the Bible indicates that God directly creates both animals and languages- yet the scientific evidence indicates a process for both. But the changes in languages happen at a much more rapid and visible rate, making it more difficult for the Literal Creationist to deny them. And if one developmental process is accepted, the other is not too remote in logic. Yet this is not really the main point of the book, but rather a very helpful recurring analogy.

Pennock's brilliance is in another area. He very clearly stating what evolution is, and is not, for the lay reader. And for stating what the many brands of creationism are, including Theistic Evolution, Young Earth and Old Earth Literal Creationism, and Intelligent Design. He discusses with great frankness and equanimity the various groups, being fair yet not withholding all of the positive evidence for evolution. He doesn't deny where he stands, but tries to point out the myriad of different stances others hold. Through this he shows his true brilliance- describing the evolution of creationism. Applying (by analogy) principles of natural selection and biological evolution to languages, he extends that to the development of various creationist doctrines, thereby pointing out the danger in attempting to teach creationism in schools- for there are thousands of forms of this belief.

Like Pennock, I was once a Literal Creationist, and like Pennock, discovered the Light as a Quaker. I can relate to much of what he shares. Pennock helps the die-hard evolutionist understand better where creationists are coming from, and what ideas are important to them. He shows how clearly those in Intelligent Design are rejecting the foundations of Christianity in order to embrace Post-Modernist philosophies. He shows how clearly the evidence for evolution stands, and after everything, still stands. And dare I say it? As a former Literal Creationist, I'd say he comes quite close to being convincing to the open-minded Literal Creationist that evolution just might, after all, have some truth to it. And that's a hard path to create.

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Unbelievable

Evidence against evolution
Duane T Gish
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Unbelievable.......2000-06-28

It is very difficult to believe that Duane Gish received a degree from U.C. Berkeley when he writes nonsense such as this. I can't help but wonder if he perhaps suffered a head injury after he graduated.

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Evidence Against Evolution
George A. Zellers
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
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Stones and Bones: Powerful Evidence Against Evolution

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Stones and Bones: Powerful Evidence Against Evolution
Carl Wieland
Manufacturer: Master Books
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ASIN: B000NY46GM

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Mostly good.
An outstanding Primer on Creation Science!

Stones and Bones: Powerful Evidence Against Evolution
Carl Wieland
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A handy 48-page booklet that covers a wide range of questions in the evolution vs. creation debate. From radiometric dating to puzzling questions (Where did Cain get his wife?), this book is ideally suited for home and church studies, and also makes a great witnessing tool. High school - adult.

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Mostly good........2005-08-15

In this incredibly short, but packed, pamphlet, Carl Wieland takes some strong jabs at evolution. I like the fact that Wieland's pamphlet is accessible, and that it discusses some major problems with the theory of evolution. In addition, there are some great pictures, which reveal some interesting information about the theory of evolution...like the dinosaur to bird theory.

The one problem that I have with this "book", and most books that aim to refute evolution is the fact that the writer's attempt to "witness" to the readers. Writers that aim to defeat evolution should stick to the scientific information, because that is all it takes. Let the facts defeat evolution. I do not like the whole save your soul or burn in hell ending. If people are reading this material it is obviously because they have questions. I say, let them do their own exploring, so that they can strengthen their own beliefs. If people simply stop researching because they are afraid of burning in hell, what sort of enlightenment do they attain? The answer is, of course, none.

Read Wieland, but, do not allow him to witness to you because of the information. If you want to find faith, read some other, great literature on the subject. Lee Strobel, C.S. Lewis and Josh McDowell are just a few of the great writers out there. Read the "book" for the small, but tantalizing, arguments against evolution, and nothing more.

An outstanding Primer on Creation Science!.......2000-03-28

Dr. Wieland's booklet was handed out to over 6000 teachers during the more recent NEA Conventions.

The information in the booklet has proven to be most provocative & enlightening to those who have be victims of scientific censorship of valid empirical data that is unfavorable to evolutionary beliefs and dogma!

Evolution at a glance for the general reader: Did man descend from monkey? Five evidences of evolution. The Darwinian theory; arguments for and against ... and religion; an open letter to Mr. Bryan
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Evolution at a glance for the general reader: Did man descend from monkey? Five evidences of evolution. The Darwinian theory; arguments for and against ... and religion; an open letter to Mr. Bryan
Morris Berman
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Other evidence against evolution (Evolution disproved series)
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Other evidence against evolution (Evolution disproved series)
Vance Ferrell
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Minor League BAseball Analyst 2007
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Minor League BAseball Analyst 2007
Deric Mckamey
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ASIN: 1891566717

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Deric McKamey's Minor League Baseball Analyst is the first book to fully integrate sabermetrics and scouting. A long-term Bill James disciple and graduate of Major League Baseball's scout school, McKamey provides his unique brand of analysis for over 1000 minor leaguers. For baseball analysts and those who play in fantasy leagues with farm systems, the Analyst is designed exactly for your needs.

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Stats and more Stats
Solid read for people looking at future players.
Glad I picked it up
Excellent

Minor League Baseball Analyst
Deric Mckamey
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ASIN: 1891566709

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Deric McKamey's NEW Minor League Baseball Analyst is the first book to fully integrate sabermetrics and scouting. A long-term Bill James disciple and graduate of Major League Baseball's scout school, Deric provides his unique brand of analysis for over 1000 minor leaguers. Includes: Scouting reports, stats and leading indicators, batter skills ratings, runner speed, pitch repertoires, expected major league debuts, potential major league roles, 5-year major league equivalents, player ranking lists, essays and more. For baseball analysts and those who play in fantasy leagues with farm systems, the Minor League Baseball Analyst is designed exactly for your needs.

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Stats and more Stats.......2006-04-07

This book contains detailed scouting reports on hundreds of potential major league ball players. The amount of information garnered is truly amazing. Every serious baseball fan should have this book.

Solid read for people looking at future players........2006-04-05

I really like this book for the information that it has. You can really look into the guts of a players ability by the stats and writes ups that are provided by the writer. Anyone trying to find a future star in baseball needs to have this book.

Only issue I had is that there are a few older minor league players in this book. These guys to me seem to be 4A players for their career and could have been left out for me.

Glad I picked it up.......2006-03-27

I was hungry for another set of prospect evaluations after digesting all of the "Baseball America Propsect Handbook" and figured for $13 and from an author I was familiar with, what the heck.

I was impressed at the number of velocities he had(everyone's fastball) for the prospects secondary pitches and Home to First Base times he had for the position players( a 1/3 approx.). He also had his own top rankings for every position on the diamond including separating starting from relieving. There's over a 1000 players evaluated(around 35 for each) so you really get a good feel for each player with the combination of grades(on a 5 point scale), sabermetric stats and blurbs(and for 3/4th velocities or times). Not really a fan of sabermetrics but I liked the one used here to try to see how my favorite Giant prospects matched up with other team's.

He was really stingy with his accolades. He didn't hand out many 5's(his highest grade for the tools or pitches) and the ones he did hand out backed up what I've heard from a couple different sources. He also got a lot(around 95% for my Giants) of the velocities and times to 1b absolutely correct, as a couple places have gotten some exaggerated reports. Very interesting that he could have such a good read on so many players on what has to be a limited budget. Like the guy before me said, I will definetly be picking one up next year.

Excellent.......2006-03-02

Great combination of statistics and scouting methods. Quantifies scouting evaluations well, and has useful basic stats as well as sabermetric measures. Definitely will pick up again next year.

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