Icons of Evolution FROM THE PUBLISHER
In this shocking book, Berkeley-educated doctor of biology Jonathan Wells lets you in on scientific discoveries you won't learn about from college and high school textbooks--and reveals a dirty little secret known only to some of his fellow biologists.
The best-known "icons" of evolution--from pictures of apes evolving into humans, to comparisons of fish and human embryos, to moths on tree trunks--are false or misleading. For decades, biology students have been taught things about evolution that are simply untrue.
These icons of evolution appear even in the most recent textbooks, although the scientific literature is full of evidence that they are false. Apparently, dogmatic promoters of Darwinian evolution fear that without these icons public faith in their claims will disappear, so they knowingly misinform our children and suppress scientific evidence.
Icons of Evolution is both an eye-opening tour of discoveries in contemporary biology and a stirring call for professional and educational honesty. It reveals that Darwinian evolution is a theory in crisis that distorts the truth to maintain its influence over science education. And it is a policeman's whistle, calling upon scientists to clean house and rid their textbooks of lies.
Icons of Evolution is also essential reading for taxpayers who want to know how their hard-earned money is being used to indoctrinate children in a myth.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
The author retraces the reasoning of proponents of evolution from Darwin to the present to show what he sees as their empirically false, and frequently faked conclusions. He contends that these conclusions are presented to the public so many times and in so many ways that they become irrefutable "icons." The information conveyed by these icons is never questioned and is in fact promoted with tax dollars in many contexts. Wells is a postdoctoral biologist (with Ph.D.s from both Yale and the U. of California at Berkeley) who is currently affiliated with the Discovery Institute, Seattle, Washington). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Internet Book Watch
Why is much of the popular theory of evolution wrong? This covers scientific discoveries under-explored in college and high school texts, probing the popular but false images of evolution which have dominated science - such as pictures of apes evolving into humans - and pinpointing scientifically why they are false. This calls for professional honesty in acknowledging recent contradictions to such images, providing a thought-provoking analysis of Darwin's theory in light of recent science discoveries.
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