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Book SynopsisCharles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century. In Living With Darwin, Philip Kitcher stokes the flames swirling around Darwin''s theory, sifting through the scientific evidence for evolution, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design, and revealing why evolution has been the object of such vehement attack. Kitcher first provides valuable perspective on the present controversy, describing the many puzzles that blocked evolution''s acceptance in the early years, and explaining how scientific research eventually found the answers to these conundrums. Interestingly, Kitcher shows that many of these early questions have been resurrected in recent years by proponents of Intelligent Design. In fact, Darwin himself considered the issue of intelligent design, and amassed a mountain of evidence that effectively refuted the idea. Kitcher argues that the problem with Intelligent Design isn''t that it''s not science, as many critics say, but that it''s dead
Trade Review"[Contains] useful contributions to the critique of creationism and the defense of science and evolution." --International Socialist Review
Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Disinterring Darwin ; 2. Goodbye to Genesis ; 3. One Tree of Life ; 4. At the Mercy of Chance? ; 5. A Mess of Pottage ; Notes ; Index
