books about: darwinism

books about: darwinism

books:

Darwinism

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design

Jonathan Wells

Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2006

Smithy's take.
I really enjoyed reading this book.Dr Wells does a good job in trying to level the balance that the one eyed media have produced in portraying Darwinism as a fact and anybody deviating from that as a Philistine on a par with those who believe in fairies,little green ...

Financial Darwinism: Create Value or Self-Destruct in a World of Risk

Leo M. Tilman

Wiley, 2008

Fascinating, original, and desperately needed
I was fascinated by the premise of Financial Darwinism and found myself agreeing with most of its conclusions and remedies. The subject matter is extremely timely right now. Investors, politicians, and financial people are struggling to understand the new financial ...

Creative Evolution: A Physicist's Resolution Between Darwinism and Intelligent Design

Amit Goswami

Quest Books, 2008

Goswami Does It Again
Quantum physicist and former professor Amit Goswami again demonstrates his ability to convey complex concepts in an understandable fashion. I believe that the gap between science and religion needs to be closed and I applaud another effort by Goswami to heal the rift.

The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism

Michael J. Behe

Free Press, 2008

The Soul and Intelligent Design
In the United States, the public face of the science of intelligent design (ID) is an advocacy movement to change the way evolution is taught. Michael Behe is one of the leaders of the movement because of his concept of the irreducible complexity of molecular machinery ...

Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists

Benjamin Wiker, William Dembski

InterVarsity Press, 2002

Epicurus set in motion an intellectual movement that Charles Darwin brought to completion
According to John Maynard Keynes, great intellectual and cultural movements frequently trace back to thinkers who worked in obscurity and are now long forgotten. But some thinkers are both famous and influential. This book focuses on two such thinkers, one largely ...

Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds

Phillip E. Johnson

InterVarsity Press, 1997

We are done with dogma
The phenomena of dogma is what keeps people from buying into a philosophy, be it religious, political, or scientific in nature. I enjoyed reading this book, having purchased it 2 days ago and finishing it last night. It is eight chapters long, 120 pages, and not overly ...

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

Daniel C. Dennett

Simon & Schuster, 1996

Unintelligent design explained
This book is a philosophical work rather than straight science, the author does an excellent job of looking at all the various species of darwinian theories and their mutations, from scientific,to pop culture to philosophical,and subjecting them to a harsh environment ...

On Human Nature

Edward O. Wilson

Harvard University Press, 2004

One of my favorites...
I had to give a presentation on this book for a philosophy class in college. I didn't expect it to be all that interesting, but it ended up being a real eye-opener at the time. It's a very captivating introduction to sociobiology.

The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America

Lauri Lebo

New Press, 2008

The real devil in Dover
Written from an insider's perspective, this book exposes the emotional part of the Dover incident much better than Monkey Girl was able to. Both books need to be read to understand the dishonesty of the right-wing, anti-science crazies in our society. Why, when ...

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

Richard Dawkins

Houghton Mifflin, 2004

The perfect gift/get!
I've always loved Dawkins books, so when my son had this on his wish list at birthday time, even though I'd already spent all of my alloted birthday money (and more!), I had to add this one! I'm glad I did. He's told me how much he enjoyed it, and that, afterall, is ...

Race over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900
Eric T. L. Love

The University of North Carolina Press, 2004

Generations of historians have maintained that in the last decade of the nineteenth century white-supremacist racial ideologies such as Anglo-Saxonism, social Darwinism, benevolent assimilation, and the concept of the "white man's burden" drove American imperialist ventures in the nonwhite world. In Race over Empire, Eric T. L. Love sontests ...

Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism (Oxford Paperbacks)

James Rachels

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

Created from Animals...and then some!
Rachels spends a good deal of time setting the intellectual and historical context in which Darwin's theory appears. He slowly but surely initiates the reader into the labyrinth of evolutionary theory with all the interesting characters such as Huxley and Wallace. ...

A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation

Peter Singer

Yale University Press, 2000

Disappointing
"A Darwinian Left" is an attempt to reconcile the apparent brutality of natural selection with progressive compassion. I enjoyed reading the book, but was hoping for a bit more substance. Singer argued that humans naturally act altruistically and cooperatively, but ...

Social Darwinism in American Thought

Richard Hofstadter

Beacon Press, 1992

Fascinating
Richard Hofstadter is an excellent historian of the trends in American political, social, and religious thought. This book chronicles the rise and fall of Herbert Spencer's philosophy as a reinforcing doctrine for laissez-faire political economy. Hofstadter deftly ...

Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2004

Outstanding
This collection is must reading for anyone who has an interest in thinking about Darwinism and well-written responses to various types of Darwinism. No cheap shots or half-baked arguments found here. All are carefully selected pieces - and each is worth taking the ...