Jonathan Wells - Zombie Science: More Icons of Evolution

ZOMBIE SCIENCE

ZOMBIE SCIENCE

MORE ICONS OF EVOLUTION

JONATHAN WELLS

SEATTLE DISCOVERY INSTITUTE PRESS 2017

Description

In 2000, biologist Jonathan Wells took the science world by storm with Icons of Evolution , a book showing how biology textbooks routinely promote Darwinism using bogus evidenceicons of evolution like Ernst Haeckels faked embryo drawings and peppered moths glued to tree trunks. 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, but now, Wells argues, its being corrupted. Empirical science is devolving into zombie science, shuffling along unfazed by opposing evidence. Discredited icons of evolution rise from the dead while more iconsequally bogusjoin their ranks. Like a B horror movie, they just keep coming! Zombies are make-believe, but zombie science is realand it threatens not just science, but our whole culture. Is there a solution? Wells is sure of it, and points the way.

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Library Cataloging Data

Zombie Science: More Icons of Evolution by Jonathan Wells

Illustrations (unless otherwise noted) by Brian Gage and Anca Sandu 238 pages, 6 x 9 x 0.5 in. & 0.72 lb, 229 x 152 x 13 mm & x 325 g

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017936551

SCI027000 SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution

SCI008000 SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology

SCI075000 SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects

ISBN-13: 978-1-936599-44-8 (paperback), 978-1-936599-46-2 (Kindle),
978-1-936599-45-5 (EPUB)

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Discovery Institute Press, 208 Columbia Street, Seattle, WA 98104

Internet: http://www.discoveryinstitutepress.org/

Published in the United States of America on acid-free paper.

First Edition: April 2017.

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CONTENTS

PRAISE FOR ZOMBIE SCIENCE

In Zombie Science , Jonathan Wells gives both a very informative and entertaining account of the problems surrounding Darwinian evolution. He makes a compelling argument that the case in favor of evolution is being driven by a commitment to materialistic philosophy and not by scientific evidence. In fact, Wells convincingly shows that the icons used to support evolution continue to be taught in spite of the increasing evidence against them. Whether a person is convinced of the truth of evolutionary theory, a skeptic, or convinced of the design argument, a clearer and greater understanding of the evolution/design debate will be gained by reading this book.

Russell W. Carlson, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus,
Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and the Complex
Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia

On TV and at the movies, zombies are simultaneously scary and comedic. Zombie science is even more frightening and, at times, even more laughable and worthy of the exposure and ridicule Dr. Jonathan Wells delivers here with his customary gusto and clarity. This important new book makes a persuasive case that the most radical, least rational and tolerant of all contemporary religious faiths is the fundamentalist belief in materialism.

Michael Medved, nationally syndicated talk radio host
and author of The American Miracle

Zombie Science poses a crucial question: If its true that Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution, as Darwinists often claim, why do textbooks continue to tout trivial, misleading, or downright fake illustrations fifteen years after Jonathan Wells first exposed many of them? If these are the best examples, the theory itself is extinct.

Michael Behe, Ph.D., , Professor of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University,
and author of Darwins Black Box and The Edge of Evolution

Evolutionary biologists provide contradictory hypotheses of the tree of life and mistaken answers on walking whales, junk DNA, the human eye, the origin of life, and many other captivating topics. To be up to date and informed on the many falsehoods dominating contemporary science and biology textbooks, I strongly recommend Zombie Science , the latest politically incorrect book by Jonathan Wells.

Wolf-Ekkehard Lnnig, Ph.D., Senior Scientist,
Dept. of Molecular Genetics, Max Planck Institute of
Plant Breeding Research, Cologne (retired)

When I read Zombie Science , the old phrase My mind is made up, dont confuse me with the facts kept coming to mind. Against the facts, Establishment Science continues to push a materialist narrative with religious zeal. Dr. Wells provides a very readable account of Establishment Sciences efforts to shore up a failed theory. Like zombies, neo-Darwinism just refuses to die. But readers will come away with good protection from the zombie arguments that keep appearing.

Ralph Seelke, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Natural Sciences

(Microbiology, Cell Biology, Genetics), University of Wisconsin-Superior

In this sequel to his seminal book Icons of Evolution , molecular biologist Jonathan Wells not only responds to his critics, but reveals even more examples of dubious and overrated scientific evidence for evolution. He shows that the theory of macroevolution still lacks empirical support, and that the materialist dogma has corrupted modern science, which desperately tries to close the door for any alternative explanations like Intelligent Design. Wells book represents an important contribution for a paradigm change that is long overdue. It is easy to understand even for laymen, and an enjoyable read as well.

Gnter Bechly, Ph.D., Paleontologist and Former Curator
for Amber and Fossil Insects, Dept. of Paleontology, State
Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Germany

Icons of Evolution proved the emperor has no clothes. Now Zombie Science shows that it doesnt even have a pulse. In this lucid and highly readable sequel, Jonathan Wells again turns the tables on the Darwinists, documenting how their supposedly overwhelming evidence for unguided evolution is one long bluff.

Tom Bethell, author of Darwins House of Cards
and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science

Seventeen years ago Jonathan Wells exposed ten icons of evolution that had wide acceptance but that didnt fit the evidence. Now he demonstrates that these icons not only continue to haunt the popular media and remain in commonly distributed textbooks, but that at least six more can be added to the list. Their persistence and proliferation suggest that these icons are now the substance of what he calls zombie science, the promotion of dead ideas as if they were living facts. Wells strategy is to treat these dead icons like you would all zombies that prefer the cover of darkness: He removes the darkness, shedding revealing light on the central dogma that DNA = RNA = Us, the myth of walking whales, the notion of vestigial organs and other evolutionary junk, the eye as an evolutionary icon, and the boasts of Darwinian medicine in explaining antibiotic resistance and cancer. Told with a scathing wit that would have made Thomas Henry Huxley envious, Zombie Science is bound to be next on every Darwinians growing Index Librorum Prohibitorium . To conceal this contraband, Wells even includes instructions for making a plain brown cover for the book. Im marking mine Pride and Prejudice , which may best describe the sources of this zombie phenomenon. A fascinating, lively book that should be on everyones reading list.