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Origins, Icons, and Illusions: Exploring the Science and Psychology of Creation and Evolution (Paperback)
by Harold R. Booher (Author)
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  • Paperback: 474 pages
  • Publisher: W.H. Green (1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 087527515X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0875275154
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars 4 customer reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,386,149 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for the scientific mind., April 2, 1999
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This book reflects a process of discovery and learning by the author covering over fifteen years. Each and every year of effort and dedication is evident in the depth and breadth of knowledge and opinion brought together and interwoven in this volume. This book explores the complex relationships between data, extrapolation, and perceptions which underlie one of our most fundamental scientific endeavors, the understanding of our origins. This 500-page volume contains almost one hundred pages of accompanying notes to qualify and expand on the 18-chapter, 363 page in-depth examination of evolution and creation as a focus of scientific processes and attention. The author examines in tremendous detail the evidence underlying evolutionary theories and those aspects of science and psychology which have inculcated the domain of evolution with an almost unassailable mantel of truth, almost imbuing it with the status of scientific law. The author also introduces such explanatory insights as the principles of semantic illusion and the role such illusions play in assigning more credibility to science than might be deserved based on the data. This book is not your typical human factors book It is more bedrock in nature. The multidisciplinary perspective of the author as a human factors specialist, however, is reflected in the breadth of domains from which data, theory, and opinion are drawn. Beyond those interested in the evolution-creation dialogue, any researcher or practitioner of human factors and ergonomics, who, as a scientist, is interested in meta-science, the examination and understanding of fundamental concepts and tenets, processes and procedures of science and the scientific approach, this book is worthwhile. It is not a read for the faint-hearted. Like Godel, Escher, Bach or the writings of Thomas Mann, it is written for the effortful mind and is replete with data and reasoning which challenges the reader just as it clearly must have challenged the author to distill and organize it in such a cogent manner over so long a period of germination. Like the authors of such books as Tainted Truth or Lying with Statistics, Dr. Booher challenges scientists to take a step back and examine the relationship between data and truth in scientific endeavor. Pope John Paul II proclaimed that "Truth cannot contradict truth" and encouraged theists to embrace science as a tool in the search for truth. Dr. Booher offers the reader an opportunity to address some fundamental contradictions between scientific data, interpretation, perceptions, and beliefs which, when surfaced, force us to examine the rigor versus rigidity of our own scientific perspectives on the world and what we consider science and truth to be.
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