文档介绍：DARWIN ON TRIAL
by Phillip E. Johnson
(C) Copyright 1991, Phillip E. Johnson
Used with permission of Phillip E. Johnson and
Regnery Gateway Publishing Co.
Electronically Enhanced Text (c) Copyright 1993 World Library, Inc.
CONTENTS
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Chapter One: The Legal Setting
Chapter Two: Natural Selection
As a Tautology
As a Scientific Hypothesis
As a Deductive Argument
As a Philosophical Necessity
Chapter Three: Mutations Great and Small
Chapter Four: The Fossil Problem
Chapter Five: The Fact of Evolution
Chapter Six: The Vertebrate Sequence
Fish to Amphibians
Amphibians to Reptiles
Reptiles to Mammals
Reptile to Bird
From Apes to Humans
Chapter Seven: The Molecular Evidence
Chapter Eight: Prebiological Evolution
Chapter Nine: The Rules of Science
Chapter Ten: Darwinist Religion
Chapter Eleven: Darwinist Education
Chapter Twelve: Science and Pseudoscience
Research Notes
CHAPTER_1
Chapter One
THE LEGAL SETTING
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IN 1981 THE STATE legislature of Louisiana passed a law requiring
that if "evolution-science" is taught in the public schools, the
schools must also provide balanced treatment for something called
"creation-science." The statute was a direct challenge to the
scientific orthodoxy of today, which is that all living things evolved
by a gradual, natural process- from nonliving matter to simple
anisms, leading eventually to man. Evolution is taught in the
public schools (and presented in the media) not as a theory but as a
fact, the "fact of evolution." There are heless many
dissidents, some with advanced scientific degrees, who deny that
evolution is a fact and who insist that an intelligent Creator
caused all living things e into being in furtherance of a
purpose.
The conflict requires careful explanation, because the terms are
confusing. The concept of creation in itself does not imply opposition
to evolution