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Exceptional Americans, their amazing animals, and other colorful
characters come to life in 44 folk tales and stories retold by
award-winning author Charles Sullivan.
49 short poems giving voice to the thoughts and feelings of some
colorful characters, encountered in and around Santa Fe, New
Mexico, plus a reader's bonus of 9 tales of the Southwest from the
author's recent collection, Uncle Sam's Family: Stories of
Exceptional Americans and Their Amazing Animals.
Though the United States is the world leader in science and
technology, many of its citizens display a shocking ignorance
regarding basic scientific facts. Recent surveys have revealed that
only about half of Americans realise that humans have never lived
side by side with dinosaurs, and about the same number reject the
idea that humans developed from earlier species of animals. This
lack of knowledge in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence
for evolution springs from a number of negative influences in
contemporary society: poor secondary education in some regions of
the country, misinformation in the mass media, and deliberate
obfuscation by supporters of Creationism and Intelligent Design. In
this concise, accessible, myth-buster's handbook, educators Cameron
M. Smith and Charles Sullivan clearly dispel the ten most common
myths about evolution, which continue to mislead average Americans.
Using a refreshing, jargon-free style, they set the record straight
on claims that evolution is just a theory, that Darwinian
explanations of life undercut morality, that Intelligent Design is
a legitimate alternative to conventional science, that humans come
from chimpanzees, and six other popular but erroneous notions.
Smith and Sullivan's reader-friendly, solidly researched text will
serve as an important tool, both for teachers and laypersons
seeking accurate information about evolution.
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