flinn@seismo.UUCP (E. A. Flinn) (04/10/84)
The Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science has published "Evolutionists Confront Creationists." The book is unusual for including two papers by creationists, one an overview by Duane Gish (Institute for Creation Research), and the other on radioactive haloes and red shifts by Robert Gentry (Columbia Union College). Evolution science is detailed by Patrick Abbot (San Diego State University, on stratigraphy), Joel Cracraft (University of Illinois, Chicago, on systematics), G. Brent Dalrymple (U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, on the age of the earth), Russell Doolittle (University of California, San Diego, on the origin of life), John Patterson (Iowa State University, on thermodynamics), Robert Root-Bernstein (Salk Institute, on philosophical issues), and William Thwaites (San Diego State University, on the design argument). The 200-page softcover book may be purchased at $9.75 per copy plus $1.50 postage per order (prepaid orders only): make checks payable to California Academy of Sciences. California residence add tax to price of books. Write AAAS Pacific Division, c/o California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California 94118. (from the April 6, 1984, issue of "Science")