Also, are there any books that outline the basics of evolution and intelligent design for children or adults?
2007-09-17 03:23:19 · 8 answers · asked by JJ 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Steve--I didn't see any near the Thermodynamic Propulsion section, which my son has already read, of course.
2007-09-17 03:36:25 · update #1
probably, but I doubt there are even close to as many childrens books as there are books about Noahs Ark, 7 Day Creation, and Adam and Eve.
My question is, if these stories are litteraly true, why do you have to flood childrens minds with these stories in order to get them to grow up believing in them? Wouldn't this all just be mainstream knowledge? Even the "evil" scientists would agree with 7 Day creation if there was a shred of evidence that it was true and evolution was not.
2007-09-17 03:37:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They're in the kids section next to Curious George and Thermodynamic Propulsion ABC 123.
2007-09-17 03:31:11 · answer #2 · answered by steve_dorings 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I cant answer anything about the evolution part. I am in Kansas and according to our stupid state there is no such thing!
But you may check out amazon.com. You would be amazed what books you can search for there.
Just note if it has to be shipped it can not go over or thru this state or it will burst into flames when it crosses the border! LOL
2007-09-17 03:34:37 · answer #3 · answered by KUJayhawksfan* 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
you elect somebody to jot down an entire e book for you? interior the Yahoo solutions answer field?? i've got seen a terrific variety of ballsy "do my homework for me because of the fact i'm too lazy" questions around right here, yet this takes the cake.
2016-10-04 21:25:12 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My girlfriend is a kindergarten teacher and she knows several good ones for all ages. Email me if you like and I will ask her tonight.
It would also help to know the grade-level, and science interests of the child, and the amount of science education of the adult ... there are great books for adults with no science background at all.
In the meantime, just go to Google and type "children's books evolution" and you'll find lots.
For adults, I really like the series of introductory graphic-novel (comic strip format) books such as "Introducing Darwin and Evolution" by Miller and Van Loon. (Any book by Jonathan Miller is great.) I have lots of others if you want ... (they're in boxes at the moment ... just moved ... but if you email me I can dig through them).
A word of warning however:
Watch out for Intelligent Design (ID) books ... especially for children! Intelligent Design is not an established scientific theory, but more of a set of questions and challenges to evolution theory.
The best of these ID books pose some really good and interesting questions (about the nature of complexity, the origins of order, the structure of information, etc.) ... but they will be very confusing unless you already have a grounding in what evolutionary theory says, and such topics as biochemistry, complexity theory, chaos theory, information theory, themodynamics, emergence, etc.
And the worst of these ID books are not science books at all, but flat out religious propaganda. They will literally tell flat-out lies about scientific concepts (e.g. that "evolution is pure randomness"), misuse scientific terms (like "macroevolution", "information", "order", or even the word "theory") or give flat-out wrong definitions, and replace accepted scientific concepts with half-truths and half-baked declarations that almost *NO* scientists agree with.
These can be especially confusing for children.
In fact the entire *goal* of many of these books is precisely to confuse. The point is not to explain science, but to attack evolution ... to erode people's understanding of it. As such, the aim is make evolution (and in many cases science itself) sound complicated and absurd ... not your best source for getting a good understanding of a theory that most scientists accept for reasons of simplicity and (above all) *evidence*.
Please remember that evolution is often painted as being anti-God, or the work of atheists. (stephanie c, here, provides an example of this.) This is flat-out *FALSE*. About 40% of the overwhelming majority of scientists who accept evolution, also believe in some form of deity ... they are NOT atheists. (For more information, see my profile, or feel free to email me.)
Good luck!
2007-09-17 04:51:00 · answer #5 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If there any books that explain evolution that you could find your best bet would be not to bother. That's what is wrong with the world today no one wants to believe in God anymore. You do not need a book about evolution, you need to read your children the BIBLE.
2007-09-17 03:35:58 · answer #6 · answered by steph 2 · 1⤊ 5⤋
no they are not only one way explanation of Jehovah bible that's why when some one tell you they know everything about world people and god they give the gyppers!!
2007-09-17 03:32:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
sdure
http://www.amazon.com/Darwin-Evolution-Kids-Ideas-Activities/dp/1556525028
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amazing that people come up with the bible...
2007-09-17 04:40:39 · answer #8 · answered by gjmb1960 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋