This new textbook, with many colour illustrations and photos, is intended for high school students and undergraduates who have an on-going interest and some background in biology.

The objective of this publication is to advocate a more critical approach to evolution theory by considering the scientific evidence challenging the widely accepted paradigm. Such exposure can and should result in an academic openness of mind producing better scientists and better science. This book highlights that there are limits to the scientific method, leading to a more modest assessment of what we can and cannot know.

Contents overview

Chapter 1: Everything from Nothing?
Chapter 2: Life from Chemistry?
Chapter 3: Information from Molecules?
Chapter 4: Complexity from Simplicity?
Chapter 5: Diversity from Simplicity?
Chapter 6: From Dinosaurs to Birds?
Chapter 7: The Origin of Mammals?
Chapter 8: Man from Apes?
Summary

There are also six separate case studies:

Case Study 1: RNA World: Does it actually solve anything?
Case Study 2: Molecules packed with Information: Just what is it?
Case Study 3: Radiometric Dating: Just how certain is it?
Case Study 4: Trilobite Eyes: Out of the blue?
Case Study 5: Intricacies of Bird Flight: Aerodynamics without design?
Case Study 6: The Platypus: An evolutionary enigma?

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Recommendations:

Stuart Burgess, BSc, PhD(Brun), CEng, FIMechE
Professor of Engineering Design, University of Bristol and AiG-UK Associate Speaker

Examining the Evidence focuses on the areas that are the biggest challenge to evolution such as the origin of life, the origin of birds and the origin of man. The authors are very well qualified in biology, physics and chemistry and they use their expert knowledge to explain clearly why evolutionary theory cannot explain the complexity and diversity of life. Anyone who is interested to know where the evidence for origins leads must read this book.

Edgar Andrews, BSc, PhD, DSc, FInstP, FIMMM, CEng, Chas.
Emeritus Professor of Materials, University of London

This book reaches the parts that other treatments of origins and evolution ignore, exposing the contentious nature of much that is superficially received and taught as 'fact' in these areas of study. Here is a seriously in-depth treatment of the scientific problems and perplexities facing naturalistic accounts of causation - whether in origin-of-life studies, molecular genetics, evolutionary biology, fossils or anthropology. This well-presented mine of information won't be found in standard texts yet needs to be known by all who teach and tudy science and biology.

Sylvia Baker, BSc (Hons) (Biology), MSc (Radiation Biology), PhD (Education)

I can heartily recommend this book. It provides a much needed balance to the one-sided view of the evidence for evolution which is the current fare for the nation's school children and TV viewers. The well-expressed material it contains will help the reader to evaluate the evidence and will thereby also train him or her to think as a scientist should.