Shattering the Myths of Darwinism
- Pages: 320
- Book Size: 6 x 9
- ISBN-13: 9780892818846
- Imprint: Park Street Press
- On Sale Date: March 1, 2000
- Format: Paperback Book
- Illustrations: 10 b&w illustrations
The controversial best-seller that sent Oxford University and Nature magazine into a frenzy has at last come to the United States. Shattering the Myths of Darwinism exposes the gaping holes in an ideology that has reigned unchallenged over the scientific world for a century. Darwinism is considered to be hard fact, the only acceptable explanation for the formation of life on Earth, but with keen insight and objectivity Richard Milton reveals that the theory totters atop a shambles of outdated and circumstantial evidence which in any less controversial field would have been questioned long ago. Sticking to the facts at hand and tackling a vast array of topics, Shattering the Myths of Darwinism offers compelling evidence that the theory of evolution has become an act of faith rather than a functioning science, and that not until the scientific method is applied to it and the right questions are asked will we ever get the true answers to the mystery of life on Earth.
Shattering the Myths of Darwinism
Preface
Part One: Chaos
1. A Natural Treasure
2. Through the Looking Glass
3. A Matter of Conjecture
4. The Key to the Past?
Part Two: Clay
6. Tales from Before the Flood
7. Fashioned from Clay
8. An Element of Unreality
9. When Worlds Collide
10. The Record of the Rocks
Part Three: Chance
11. Survival of the Fittest
12. Green Mice and Blue Genes
13. The Beak of the Finch
14. Of Cabbage and Kings
15. The Ghost in the Machine
Part Four: Creation
16. Pandora's Box
17. Paradigm Lost
18. Down From the Trees
19. Hopeful Monsters
20. The Facts of Life
Afterword: Controversies
21. The Evolution of Evolution
22. On Being Thick Skinned
23. The Fish That Walked
24. Angels Versus Apes
25. Old Theories Never Die
Notes
Bibliography
General Index
People index
Species index
Visit the author's web site at http://www.alternativescience.com/.
London Times
"The world of science faces the biggest challenge yet to one of its most basic beliefs."
Neville Hodgkinson, Sunday Times
"On subject after subject--methods of dating, the fossil record, microbiology, geology, etc.--Milton shows the inadequacy of the evidence for Darwinian evolution."
Alpha Magazine
"When a reputable science correspondent of more than twenty years' experience raises serious doubts, then it is time to sit up and listen."
Challenge
"Bang goes the empirical basis on which neo-Darwinism rests."
Bishop Hugh Montefiore, The Church Times
". . . Significant and fascinating."
Donald A. Yerxa, Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation, June 2001