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Christianity Today's Books of the YearFor decades, Christians have felt voiceless in the critical debate over evolution. Until now. Finally, ordinary Christians have the opportunity and the resources to defeat the false claims of Darwinism.With all of the complicated scientific debate swirling around the topic of evolution, Christians need an easy way to understand the basic issues without oversimplifying. Phillip Johnson has the answer: the key to defeating the false claims of Darwinism is to open our minds to good thinking habits. Here is first-rate advice on avoiding common mistakes in discussions about evolution, understanding the legacy of the Scopes trial, spotting deceptive arguments, and grasping the basic scientific issues without getting bogged down in unnecessary details.In the bestselling and critically acclaimed Darwin on Trial and Reason in the Balance, Phillip Johnson took on the academic elites and exposed the misleading claims of evolutionary naturalism. Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds provides a new and powerful treatment of these issues for high-school students, parents, teachers, pastors, youth advisors and ordinary readers. Johnson aims not just to defeat a bad theory, but to defeat it in the right way-by opening minds to the truth.

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InterVarsity Press
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0830813608
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9780830813605
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Book Title
Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds
Author
Phillip E. Johnson
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Evolution, Religion & Science
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Religion, Science
Number of Pages
131 Pages

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8.2in
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Qh366.2.J655 1997
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Johnson feels his successful antievolution books, Darwin on Trial (1991) and Reason in the Balance (1995), are more complicated than parents and teachers need to prepare students to take on the evolutionists. Hence, this shorter version of his overall thesis that also advises how to debate evolution. Johnson first makes clear what he perceives the real adversary to be: a dogma that insists life arose solely by chance and that denies contrary evidence a hearing. He then counsels believers to avoid such common mistakes as retreating from theism to deism (and so transforming a continuously creative God into an uninvolved First Cause), to learn to spot faulty analogies and other forms of poor logic, to know the soundest scientific data casting doubt on classical evolution, and to persist--for, he says, the days of Darwinian hegemony are numbered. He firmly believes and seeks to persuade readers that his ultimate causes, aside from religious faith, are freedom of inquiry and the opening of now closed minds., By profaning the scientific establishment's most sacred cows, U.C.-Berkeley law professor Johnson has earned critical acclaim and brisk sales. Now, the witty iconoclast who questioned the scientific evidence for Darwinian evolution in his Darwin on Trial (1991) provides a short, simple manual to help students, parents, teachers and pastors debate evolution, 'a subject,' Johnson says, 'that has for too long been protected from critical thinking by law and academic custom.' Included in the book are tips for using what Carl Sagan once called a 'baloney detector kit' to verify the evidence used by opponents in an argument, as well as tips for detecting ad hominem and straw man arguments. Johnson's greatest contribution, however, is that he helps non-scientists distinguish between scientific fact, like microevolution within species, and unproved scientific theories, like macroevolution, which claims that molecules became men. He is also adept at exposing philosophical bias behind ostensibly 'objective' scientific arguments. With measured prose and systematic thinking, Johnson uses his legal expertise to demonstrate the ways in which arguments about evolutionary theory may be conducted.
Table of Content
Introduction 1. Emilio's Letter: Three Common Mistakes 2. Inherit the Wind: The Play's the Thing 3. Tuning Up Your Baloney Detector 4. A Real Education in Evolution 5. Intelligent Design 6. The Wedge: A Strategy for Truth 7. Modernism: The Established Religion of the West 8. Stepping Off the Reservation Notes
Copyright Date
1997
Lccn
97-012916
Dewey Decimal
576.8/2
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21

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What a great book. It just shows that God is true! Our Church has put this on the recommended list for students. I like the humor and it is an easy read. If you need more proof check out Dr. Carl Baugh. God is real and all evolution is trying to do is to "try" to make us think that we just happened. I ask you this. If you had all the parts for a 57 Chevy just laying around in a million years would you have a built car? Of course not. What makes you think that we as complex human beings ever evolved?
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by bp02602Jan 26, 2008
Explains how & why evolutionists in schools w/o agree
Now I know why Christians are looked upon as bigots whereas many liberals actually are bigots. (See the movie "Inherit the Wind" from 1960. This book explains where biases come from and how deceptive mainstream media is when speaking of evolution and science. It's not evolution vs. Bible but evolution vs. science. The overwhelming evidence is against evolutionists theories and for creation by a superintelligent being. Learn how and why to discuss "evolution vs. creation" intelligently. Apologetics at its best. I purchased this book for my eighth grader but will be sharing it with all my science teachers and evolutionist/creationist friends. Trying to explain creation by saying that God used evolution is logically inaccurate by definition. This book is a must read for all adults and any high school age children who want to know the truth because the "truth shall set us free." It is an intellectual challenge but enjoy!!!Read full review
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