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Nye discusses the creationism versus evolution debate. [1] He lays out evidence about life on earth evolving. [5] He provides an overview of the evolutionary theories such as bottlenecking, punctuated equilibrium, Red Queen hypothesis, and the good enough design theory while at the same time providing counter arguments for creationism theories such as the second law of thermodynamics. [1]
Rejection of evolution by religious groups, sometimes called creation–evolution controversy, has a long history. [1] In response to theories developed by scientists, some religious individuals and organizations question the legitimacy of scientific ideas that contradicted the young earth pseudoscientific interpretation of the creation account in Genesis.
The book was released as several states, particularly Texas and Florida, considered revisions in state science standards. [8] A study at Arizona State University used the book as part of a two-week module, within an introductory biology course, focusing on science, evolution, and religion. The percentage of students who held the view that there ...
History of Modern Creationism, Master Books, San Diego, 1984. (ISBN 0-89051-102-0) The Long War Against God: the history and impact of the creation/evolution conflict, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, 1989. (ISBN 0-89051-291-4) That Their Words May Be Used Against Them, Master Books, Green Forest, 1997.
Young Earth creationism (YEC) is a form of creationism which holds as a central tenet that the Earth and its lifeforms were created by supernatural acts of the Abrahamic God between about 6,000 and 10,000 years ago, [1] [2] contradicting established scientific data for the age of Earth putting it at around 4.54 billion years.
Creation science is based largely upon chapters 1–11 of the Book of Genesis. These describe how God calls the world into existence through the power of speech ("And God said, Let there be light," etc.) in six days, calls all the animals and plants into existence, and molds the first man from clay and the first woman from a rib taken from the man's side; a worldwide flood destroys all life ...
God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible (1911) The Fundamentals of Geology and their Bearings on the Doctrine of a Literal Creation (1913) Q.E.D.; or, New light on the doctrine of creation (1917) A Textbook of General Science for Secondary Schools (1917) Back to the Bible: or, The new Protestantism (1920)
Following political controversy, creation science was reformulated as intelligent design and neo-creationism. [9] [10] Mainline Protestants and the Catholic Church reconcile modern science with their faith in Creation through forms of theistic evolution which hold that God purposefully created through the laws of nature, and accept