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Paleontology: A Philosophical Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Biology) book by Derek Turner ISBN: 9780521116374

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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Imagine a planet almost exactly like ours but with one crucial difference: it has no fossils. Call this imaginary planet Afossilia. Afossilia and Earth harbor the very same kinds of living things from ferns to human beings to E. coli bacteria. Both planets have the same surface features and the same types of rocks. And both have experienced exactly the same evolutionary histories with the same species evolving and going extinct at exactly the same time. We can even suppose that you and I have counterparts living on Afossilia that is that there are people there who are exactly (or almost exactly) like us. Some Biblical literalists hold that God placed fossils in the rocks in order to test our faith in scripture. I invite you to join me now in thinking about a simple inversion of this familiar idea: what if God – or if not God then some more sinister spirit – systematically removed all the fossils from the rocks just before (Afossilian) humans evolved and began to study the world around them. (LL)

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9780521116374

Format

Hardcover

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Book author

Derek Turner

Condition

Used – Like New

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