Save Our Selves from Science Gone Wrong (Paperback)

by Shaun Johnston (Author)
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This brisk and engaging manifesto reveals natural selection to be the flawed product of a science hobbled from birth by denial of the self. After pointing out a dozen dubious assumptions lying behind natural selection Johnston shows how sounder assumptions can lead to better theories. He ends by calling for popular opposition to natural selection and for scientists to come up with sounder mechanisms. Until then, he insists, no mechanism of evolution at all should be taught in the science classroom.

This is no creationist tract. In his demonstration of how to arrive at new mechanisms Johnston conjures up a genome-self able to literally dream up new species, a mechanism much more corrosive of the supernatural than Darwinism.

       Mary Midgley, Gifford Lecture 1989-90, Science As Salvation, and author of Evolution as a Religion: Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears.
"Shaun Johnston raises many fascinating questions, asking how it is that many scientists seem to find it so embarrassingly difficult to think about any sort of consciousness, especially their own, that they'd rather say it isn't there?... But they badly need to be pressed to roll up their sleeves and face it directly. So, all good wishes to Johnston as he pesters them to get over their scruples!"

       Robert G. B. Reid, Emeritus Professor of Biology at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, author of Evolutionary Theory: The Unfinished Synthesis and Biological Emergences: Evolution by Natural Experiment.
"In Save Our Selves from Science Gone Wrong, Shaun Johnston presents selectionism as the science that has gone wrong, corrupting biology as well as pertinent aspects of sociology, philosophy, and the popular media. Such a strong voice deserves attention. Responding to the question "What do you put in its place?" Johnston begins with the consciousness of the individual self."

       John Horgan, author of The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age.
"Your take on Darwinism...is lively and provocative."

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Evolved Self Publishing (February 12, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977947025
• ISBN-13: 978-0977947027
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,409,875 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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22 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worthless tripe!, January 29, 2008

By	William J. Costello "bongobilly" (St. Louis) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Although his stated purpose, in amazon's science forum, is to cause "20,000 evos" (scientists and teachers) to lose their jobs," his scurrying away like a cockroach when confronted with real scientific questions there reveals his real purpose - to make a quick buck. Notice he gave himself 5 stars! He feels that scientific qualifications, experience, knowledge, the scientific method and the peer review process are all unnecessary when a layman such as he has the gift of insight. Actually, he doesn't even offer that much. There's not a grain of originality, much less real science. He's counting on there being enough gullible, scientifically ignorant people out there, who will buy this trash, to make a quick killing. He knows they exist because look how much money charlatans like Michael Behe, Philip E. Johnson and William Dempski make with the same, fraudulent claims. At least they're desperate and cunning enough to be original.

In summary, you're going to read the work of con artists, you might as well go the deceitful source where this "science gone wrong" crap originated - the Discovery Institute!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An Imaginative Atheist Offers an Alternative, February 13, 2008

By	Gerry Rzeppa (Franklin, KY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In this lively and easy-to-read book, Johnston rightly rejects the mechanism of Natural Selection as an insufficient cause for its purported effects. He then proposes a model, admittedly incomplete, where a developing intelligence of some sort, enshrined in the "genome", becomes the (witting? unwitting?) designer of all manifest life on earth. Unfortunately, in altogether omitting God from the picture, his scenario - like the commonly accepted materialistic model - hinges on the spontaneous generation of order from chaos.

6 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What to read after seeing "Expelled--No IntelligenceRequired.", January 26, 2008

By	Shaun Johnston "evolved self" (Tillson, NY United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Due for general release February 2008 is the documentary movie, "Expelled--No Intelligence Required." It damns the scientific establishment for suppressing criticism of the theory of natural selection. If that's true, where do you go to learn what those criticisms are? Check out this book. You'll find criticisms not only of natural selection but also of the science behind it, and a call for the scientific establishment to come up with better theories. (Comment by the author.)