| 书目名称 | Evolution That Anyone Can Understand | | 编辑 | Bernard Marcus | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Explores resistance to scientific progress that challenges conventional wisdom.Examines the response that leads opponents to deny, attack and ridicule.Shows the effects of longer term understanding th | | 丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in Evolutionary Biology | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | The function of scientific research is promoting the understanding of the world around us. In theory, anyway, the more we learn, the more potential we have of making our lives better. Thus, we have seen research in electronics provide us with computers, research in chemistry provide us with all manner of synthetics, and research in agriculture provide us with more food. Periodically, scientific research uncovers something that makes some of us uncomfortable. The discovery of the link between smoking and lung cancer and heart disease was not received well by the tobacco industry, and the link between global climate change and fossil fuel use has not been well received by the petroleum industry, to cite just two examples. Usually the response of those whose world has been disrupted by science is denial, often followed by attack on or ridicule of the science that has challenged them. In the long term, however, science usually turns out to be correct.. | | 出版日期 | Book 2012 | | 关键词 | Copernicus; Darwin; creationism; education; intelligent design | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6126-6 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4419-6125-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4419-6126-6Series ISSN 2192-8134 Series E-ISSN 2192-8142 | | issn_series | 2192-8134 | | copyright | The Author(s) 2012 |
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