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[FMH]Contents Tables and Figures 000 Preface 000 Prologue: Going by the Book 000 0.1 When Words Fail 000 0.2 Was There a Beginning? 000 0.3 Two Models of the Universe 000 0.4 Do Biology and Physics Conflict? 000 1. Why Does the Right Wage War on Darwin? 000 1.1 What Is Evolution? 000 1.2 Are Species Individuals? 000 1.3 Is Creation Science Science? 000 2 Where Is Evolution Going? 000 2.1 The Tautology Problem 000 2.2 Does Evolution Optimize? 000 2.3 Is Evolution Algorithmic? 000 3 Let's See Some ID 000 3.1 Why Intelligent Design Won't Do 000 3.2 Bad Arguments for Intelligent Design 000 3.3 Intelligent Design before the Court of Law 000 4 The Immorality of the Christian Right 000 4.1 Is Morality without Religion Possible? 000 4.2 Abortion, Stem Cells, and Cloning 000 4.3 Consciousness and Personhood 000 5 Religion, Morality, and the New American Fascism 000 5.1 Flag Burners, Hookers, and Pot Heads 000 5.2 Are Corporations Inherently Immoral? 000 5.3 Corporatism as American-Style Fascism 000 Epilogue: How Science Can Help Public Policy 000 6.1 The Morality of Science 000 6.2 Politics and the Good Society 000 6.3 Must Science and Religion Conflict? 000 Appendix: Defining Science 000 7.1 What Are Natural Laws? 000 7.2 What Is Science? 000 7.3 Is Creationism Science? 000 References 000 Index 000 [FMH]Figures and Tables Figure 1.1 Science as the Study of Causes and Effects 000 Figure 1.2 An Isolated Region of (Local) Space and Time 000 Figure 1.3 A Causal Theory Square 000 Figure 1.4 The Evolutionary Explanandum 000 Figure 1.5 Alternative Evolutionary Theories 000 Table 2.1 Morris's Evolution and Creation Models 000 Figure 2.1 Brown's Comparison of Creation and Evolution 000 Figure 4.1 Some Stages in Embryogenesis 000 Figure 4.2 The Court's Trimester Division 000 Table 4.1 Abortion, Stem Cells, Cloning: A Summary Overview 000 Figure 6.1 A Model of Genetic Evolution 000 Figure 6.2 A Model of Gene-Culture Co-Evolution 000 Table 6.1 Three Theses of The Bell Curve 000 Table 7.1 Some Properties and Attributes 000 Table 7.2 Means, Modes, and Medians 000 Table 7.3 Alternative Conceptions of Scientific Procedure 000 Figure 7.1 Inference to the Best Explanation 000 Figure 7.2 Are Creationist Hypotheses Scientific? 000 Figure 7.3 A Deterministic-Deductive Explanation 000 Figure 7.4 A Retrodictive Inference 000 Figure 7.5 An Inadequate Explanation 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Religion and science.
Christian conservatism -- United States.
Christianity and politics -- United States.
United States -- Church history.