Zombie science jonathan wells download pdf

Critics of the book complained that Wells had merely gathered up a handful of innocent textbook errors and blown them out of proportion. Now, in Zombie Science , Wells asks a simple question: If the icons of evolution were just innocent textbook errors, why do so many of them still persist? Science has enriched our lives and led to countless discoveries. Empirical science is devolving into zombie science, shuffling along unfazed by opposing evidence.

Discredited icons of evolution rise from the dead while more icons—equally bogus—join their ranks. Like a B horror movie, they just keep coming! Zombies are make believe, but zombie science is real—and it threatens not just science, but our whole culture.

Is there a solution? Wells is sure of it, and points the way. He holds a Ph. Many of them were fraudulent and known to be so. Nevertheless, they appeared in these textbooks. In his latest book, Zombie Science , he asks a simple question. If these icons of evolution published 17 years ago were just innocent textbook errors, why do so many of them still persist? In his book, he also adds a number of other icons that are also wrong. These erroneous icons were present in textbooks decades ago, and continue to show up in textbooks today.

Jonathan Wells spends a chapter critiquing that spectacular claim. In a previous book, he also dealt with the claim that we have so much junk DNA and addresses that again in this book. If evolution is true, we might expect to have lots of leftover and unused DNA. He shows that is not the case.

This book not only will be helpful to science students with questions, it can also be a manual for activists. After all, our tax dollars each year go to purchase textbooks that have erroneous icons of evolution.

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