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According to the idea of intelligent design, nature's complexity is the result of deliberate planning by a supernatural creative force. To date, most scientific arguments against this form of creationism have been made by evolutionary biologists. In this volume, a team of earth scientists reveals that the flaws of intelligent design are not limited to the biological sciences. Indeed, the geological sciences offer some of the best refutations of intelligent design arguments. For the Rock Record is dedicated to the proposition that the idea of intelligent design should be of serious concern to everyone. Editors Jill S. Schneiderman and Warren D. Allmon have gathered leading figures from the geological community with a wide range of viewpoints that go to the heart of the debate over what is and is not science. The purveyors of intelligent design theories and its kindred philosophies threaten the scientific literacy that our society needs by confusing faith and the practice of science. This collection offers a much-needed response.

Evolutionary paleobiology. --- Historical geology. --- Intelligent design (Teleology) --- Creation. --- Earth --- Origin. --- argument from design. --- biological science. --- biology. --- christianity. --- creationism. --- deliberate planning. --- earth sciences. --- evidence based scientific theory. --- existence of god. --- geological sciences. --- geology. --- human artifacts. --- intelligent design movement. --- intelligent design. --- irreducible complexity. --- nature. --- origins of life. --- power of god. --- religion. --- scientific arguments. --- scientific debate. --- specified complexity. --- supernatural creative force. --- theology. --- Earth (Planet)

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Although the species is one of the fundamental units of biological classification, there is remarkably little consensus among biologists about what defines a species, even within distinct sub-disciplines. The literature of paleobiology, in particular, is littered with qualifiers and cautions about applying the term to the fossil record or equating such species with those recognized among living organisms. In Species and Speciation in the Fossil Record, experts in the field examine how they conceive of species of fossil animals and consider the implications these different approaches have for thinking about species in the context of macroevolution. After outlining views of the Modern Synthesis of evolutionary disciplines and detailing the development within paleobiology of quantitative methods for documenting and analyzing variation within fossil assemblages, contributors explore the challenges of recognizing and defining species from fossil specimens-and offer potential solutions. Addressing both the tempo and mode of speciation over time, they show how with careful interpretation and a clear species concept, fossil species may be sufficiently robust for meaningful paleobiological analyses. Indeed, they demonstrate that the species concept, if more refined, could unearth a wealth of information about the interplay between species origins and extinctions, between local and global climate change, and greatly deepen our understanding of the evolution of life.

Evolutionary paleobiology. --- Fossils. --- Evolution (Biology) --- macroevolution. --- paleobiology. --- paleontology. --- speciation. --- species. --- tempo and mode. --- Evolutionary paleobiology --- Fossils

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Biology --- History of civilization --- Gould, Stephen Jay

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