WHY DARWIN MATTERS --- THE CASE AGAINST INTELLIGENT DESIGN by Michael Shermer. Times Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2006


    PROLOGUE --- WHY EVOLUTION MATTERS (piii-xx)

      1) The facts of evolution (p1-22)

      2) Why people do not accept evolution (p23-33)

      3) In search of the designer (p34-44)

      4) Debating intelligent design (p45-88)

      5) Science under attack (p89-105)

      6) The real agenda (p106-115)

      7) Why science cannot contradict religion (p116-125)

      8) Why christians and conservatives should accept evolution (p126-1138)

      9) The real unsolved problems in evolution (p138-153)

        [?] What is right in evolutionary theory? (p152-153)

          Seven reasons for assuming that Evolutionary Theory is correct

    EPILOGUE (p154-161)

    CODA --- GENESIS REVISITED (p162-165)

    APPENDIX --- Equal time for whom? (p166-168)

    NOTES (p169-184)

    SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --- A reader's guide to the evolution --- Intelligent Design debate (p185-187)

      Pro-Evolutionary websites include:

        14 websites listed

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (p188-190)

    INDEX (p191-199)

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR (p201-202)


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