{"title":"Jonathan Marks","description":"\u003cp\u003eJonathan Marks explores challenging ideas at the intersection of science, society, and belief. His work encourages readers to question assumptions about race, reason, and evolution with clarity and critical insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese thought-provoking titles delve into contemporary debates, offering a rigorous yet accessible approach to understanding controversial topics within education and reference.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"why-are-there-still-creationists-by-jonathan-marks-9781509547470","title":"Why Are There Still Creationists?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe evidence for the ancestry of the human species among the apes is overwhelming. But the facts are never “just” facts. Human evolution has always been a value-laden scientific theory and, as anthropology makes clear, the ancestors are always sacred. They may be ghosts, or corpses, or fossils, or a naked couple in a garden, but the idea that you are part of a lineage is a powerful and universal one. Meaning and morals are at play, which most certainly transcend science and its quest for maximum accuracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith clarity and wit, Jonathan Marks shows that the creation\/evolution debate is not science versus religion. After all, modern anti-evolutionists reject humanistic scholarship about the Bible even more fundamentally than they reject the science of our simian ancestry. Widening horizons on both sides of the debate, Marks makes clear that creationism is a theological, not a scientific, debate and that thinking perceptively about values and meanings should not be an alternative to thinking about science – it should be a key part of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47363357016300,"sku":"9781509547470","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12496953482725.jpg?v=1772921617"},{"product_id":"is-science-racist-by-jonathan-marks-9780745689210","title":"Is Science Racist?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe eugenic science of the early twentieth century and the commodified genomic science of today are unified by the mistaken belief that human races are naturalistic categories. Yet their boundaries are founded neither in biology nor in genetics and, not being a formal scientific concept, race is largely not accessible to the scientist. 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He recognises that professors and administrators frequently adopt the language and priorities of the left, but he explains why conservative nightmare visions of liberal persecution and indoctrination bear little resemblance to what actually goes on in college classrooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMarks examines why advocates for liberal education struggle to offer a coherent defence of themselves against their conservative critics, and demonstrates why such a defence must rest on the cultivation of reason and of pride in being reasonable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMore than just a campus battlefield guide, \u003cem\u003eLet's Be Reasonable\u003c\/em\u003e recovers what is truly liberal about liberal education—the ability to reason for oneself and with others—and shows why the liberally educated person considers reason to be more than just a tool for scoring political points.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596761776364,"sku":"9780691207728","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1c0962b0d973a897031d1791b7966f8b.jpg?v=1777956386"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/jonathan-marks.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}