Rumor has it that more than 20 books on creationism/evolution are in the publishers pipelines. A few have already appeared. The goal of all will be to try to explain to a confused and often unenlightened citizenry that there are not two equally valid cientific theories for the origin and evolution of universe and life. Cosmology, geology, and iology have provided a consistent, unified, and constantly improving account of what happened. "Scientific" creationism, which is being pushed by some for "equal time" in the classrooms whenever the scientific accounts of evolution are given, is based on religion, not science. Virtually all scientists and the majority of non-fundamentalist religious leaders have come to regard "scientific" creationism as bad science and bad religion.

　　The first four chapters of Kitchers book give a very brief introduction to evolution. At appropriate places, he introduces the criticisms of the creationists and provides answers. In the last three chapters, he takes off his gloves and gives the creationists a good beating. He describes their programmes and tactics, and, for those unfamiliar with the ways of creationists, the extent of their deception and distortion may come as an unpleasant surprise. When their basic motivation is religious, one might have expected more Christian behavior.

　　Kitcher is philosopher, and this may account, in part, for the clarity And fectiveness of his arguments. The non-specialist will be able to obtain at least a notion of the sorts of data and argument that support evolutionary theory. The final chapter on the creationists will be extremely clear to all. On the dust jacket of this fine book, Stephen Jay Gould says: "This book stands for reason itself." And so it does - and all would be well were reason the only judge in the creationism/evolution debate.

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　　進化論

　　據(jù)傳言有20多本關(guān)于神創(chuàng)論／進化論的書已經(jīng)在出版商的印刷廠里了。其中的幾本已經(jīng)面市了，出版這些書的目的就是向那些未被啟蒙的處于混亂之中的人們揭示并沒有兩種相等的可用的科學(xué)理論來解釋宇宙和人的起源和進化。宇宙學(xué)，地質(zhì)學(xué)生物學(xué)已經(jīng)為過去發(fā)生的事情提供了一個固定的統(tǒng)一的并且不斷發(fā)展的解釋。"科學(xué)的"神創(chuàng)論建立在宗教而不是科學(xué)的基礎(chǔ)上的，實際上所有的科學(xué)家和非原教主義的大多數(shù)人已經(jīng)逐漸將"科學(xué)的"神創(chuàng)論看作是壞的科學(xué)和宗教。

　　K的書的前四章，把進化論做了一個簡明的介紹。在合適的地方他引進了對神創(chuàng)論的評判并提供解答。在最后三章里，他取下拳擊手套，給與神創(chuàng)論者重重的打擊。他描述神創(chuàng)論的程序和策略，并且對那些不熟悉神創(chuàng)論者行為方式的人而言，神創(chuàng)論者的欺騙和歪曲會令他們有不愉快的驚奇。當(dāng)他們的動機是宗教時，一個人可能用行為。

　　K是一位哲學(xué)家，也許者也可以部分的說明他論述的條理清晰性和有效性。非專業(yè)人士也至少通過一系列數(shù)據(jù)和爭論得到進化論的觀點。在神創(chuàng)論的最后一章這個更為清晰。在這本書的包裝封面上寫道：這本書代表了理性。的確如此，因為如果把理性作為神創(chuàng)論進化論爭論的唯一判斷標(biāo)注的時候就好辦

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