Darwins House of Cards, Tom Bethell
Darwins House of Cards, Tom Bethell
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Darwin's House of Cards
A Journalist’s Odyssey Through the Darwin Debates

Author: Tom Bethell

Narrator: Matthew McAuliffe

Unabridged: 8 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/25/2019


Synopsis

In this provocative history of contemporary debates over evolution, veteran journalist Tom Bethell depicts Darwin’s theory as a nineteenth-century idea past its prime, propped up by logical fallacies, bogus claims, and empirical evidence that is all but disintegrating under an onslaught of new scientific discoveries. Bethell presents a concise yet wide-ranging tour of the flash points of modern evolutionary theory, investigating controversies over common descent, natural selection, the fossil record, biogeography, information theory, evolutionary psychology, artificial intelligence, and the growing intelligent design movement. Bethell’s account is enriched by his own personal encounters with some of our era’s leading scientists and thinkers, including Harvard biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin; British paleontologist Colin Patterson; and renowned philosopher of science Karl Popper.

About Tom Bethell

Tom Bethell is the Washington, DC, correspondent for the American Spectator and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Douglas on January 30, 2019

Really solid overview of the current state of the debate. The conclusion is pure gold.......more

Goodreads review by Booketeer on April 22, 2017

This book makes you wonder why anyone is not a Darwin skeptic. At least, as a scientific belief. There IS an argument for it that Bethell finds in Darwin himself: materialism is true therefore all life must have developed over time by accident. But as a scientific theory, there's no evidence of muta......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on December 15, 2021

There are many good books on this subject, but this is one of the best because it covers a broader spectrum of ideas and arguments, though some in less detail due to the breadth of the book. Topics covered here include not only the commonly discussed Lensky experiments and finches, but topics such a......more

Goodreads review by Steven on June 01, 2024

A JOURNALIST OFFERS A LARGELY “NON-RELIGIOUS” CRITIQUE OF DARWINISM Journalist Tom Bethell wrote in the Introduction to this 2017 book, “the validity of evolution as science is the key question to be addressed in this book. I hope to do so with minimal regard to religion… keeping [religion and scienc......more

Goodreads review by Randall O. on April 29, 2018

Summary: Materialism is a religion and if materialism is to be accepted as true then Darwinian Evolution MUST be true irregardless of the scarcity of data to substantiate it. Journalist Tom Bethell does a brilliant job of providing the context (MATERIALISM and the philosophy of PROGRESS) and history......more


Quotes

“Not only informative, but also entertaining. Any open-minded person interested in evolution will enjoy this book.” Jonathan Wells, author of Icons of Evolution