| Introduction: Something Isn't Quite Right | 9 |
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PART ONE: IN THE BEGINNING |
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| 1. The Big Bang Something From Nothing Equals Everything |
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| 2. Something From Nothing Beam Me Up, Scotty |
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| 3. Falsification The Timex Test |
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PART TWO: LIFE FROM THE NONLIVING |
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| 4. Life Begins on Earth Hordes of Typing Monkeys |
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| 5. Small Molecules by Chance Cooking with Miller and Urey |
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| 6. Large Molecules by Chance Much Ado About Nothing |
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| 7. Chirality Hand Cuffed |
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| 8. Directed Panspermia Mother Nature's Start-up Kit |
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| 9. The Ad Hominem Attack If You Can't Win the Game, Win the Fight |
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| 10. The Second Law (Part I of IV): Entropy Law and Disorder |
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| 11. The Second Law (Part II of IV): The Open System Argument A Closed Door |
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| 12. The Second Law (Part III of IV): Natural Increases in Order How Is It That Gardens Grow? |
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| 13. The Second Law (Part IV of IV): Crystallization Of Ice and Men |
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PART THREE: SIMPLE LIFE |
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| 14. A (Very) Brief History of Time So Much To Do, So Little Time |
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| 15. The Cambrian Explosion Biology's Big Bang Goes Bust |
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| 16. Irreducible Complexity The Case Against Darwinian Fuzzy Logic |
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| 17. Macroevolution and Microevolution We Must Come to Terms |
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| 18. Evolution in Action Bait and Switch |
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| 19. Multi-cell Animals to Fish More Holes than a Donut Factory |
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| 20. Tautologies The Cat Chasing Its Tail |
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PART FOUR: FISH TO PHILOSOPHER |
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| 21. Fish to Amphibians The Oldest Fish Tale in the World |
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| 22. Beneficial Mutations A Fly in the Ointment |
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| 23. Natural Selection A Tall Tale |
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| 24. Amphibians to Reptiles A Cat Burglar's Path |
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| 25. Reptiles to Birds Sceathers and Lings |
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| 26. Reptiles to Mammals I Object, Your Honor |
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| 27. Land Animals to Sea Animals Another Fishy Story |
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| 28. Mammal to Man Into the Boneyard |
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| 29. Punctuated Equilibrium The Best Evidence There Never Was |
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| 30. Molecular Biology What Do Yeast, Tuna, Pigeons, and Horses Have in Common? |
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PART FIVE: THE LONG JOURNEY DONE |
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| 31. Charles Darwin Predicts He Caught The Beagle, but Missed The Boat |
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| 32. The Flip Side of Evolution The Spirit of Mr. Mivart Lives |
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| Resources | 193 | |
| Acknowledgments | 199 | |
| Endnotes | 201 | |
| About the Author | 207 |