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Darwin on Trial
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Darwin's theory of evolution is accepted by most educated Americans as simple fact. This easy acceptance, however, hides from us the many ways in which evolution - as an idea - shapes our thinking about a great many things. What if this idea is wrong? What if "evolution" is just a word that covers up scientific ignorance of how the wonders of the living world could have been created?
Berkeley law professor Phillip Johnson looks at the evidence for Darwinistic evolution the way a lawyer would - with a cold dispassionate eye for logic and proof. His discovery is that scientists have put the cart before the horse. They prematurely accepted Darwin's theory as fact and have been scrambling to find evidence for it - mostly unsuccessfully. As the evidentiary difficulties have piled up, scientists have clung to the theory out of fear of encouraging religious fundamentalism, and in the process have turned belief in Darwinism into their own religion.
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- Wim
- 08-03-2024
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Very convincing book
IT was surprising
I enjoyed reading iT
Good arguments
Clear speach and good tone of voice
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- Stacey
- 30-10-2021
Great narrator, well-written, incisive critique.
Some hostile atheists, such as Richard Dawkins, believe that religious belief (of any and every variety) is dangerous zealotry based merely on blind faith without any empirical justification, and that believers are willfully ignorant of the implausibility of their worldview and beliefs. Johnson illucidates the several ways in which such believers as Dawkins are just as zealous, ideological, blinded by their own basic assumptions and presuppositions, and lacking in convincing empirical justification for the fundamental doctrine that they espouse as anyone else. There are so many areas of uncertainty in Darwinism that the frequent proclamation of it as 'fact' smacks more of powerplay than scientific surety.
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- RUTH
- 29-07-2023
The Evolution of Evolutionary Theory.
Very interesting. Took a while to get used to the narrator's voice but then found out a lot about the history of critical thought around Darwins theory of Evolution. very good.
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