The new book is geared toward explaining evolution to the American public. Here’s a pdf brochure describing the book. The book can also be read online in its entirety here.
I read much of the chapter on Creationism. It’s clearly written, with helpful illustrations. This looks like a good place to send open-minded folks who are confused by Creationist claims.
A fascinating read, and one which I find compatible with creationism through my unusual view. I posit that the role of the Creator was to create, then establish the rules. We know these rules as physics, chemistry, biology and other hard sciences. There is no reason of an action to have an opposite and equal reaction except that it does. It follows a law governing the universe.
This view is almost a Deist perspective and has little support. To my knowledge, it also has no opposition of which I am aware.
The sentence “If one scientist clings to particular ideas despite evidence to the contrary, another scientist will attempt to replicate relevant experiments and will not hesitate to publish conflicting evidence.” is easily understood through a literature review of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. No one was ever able to duplicate the findings of the pair’s original research until, a decade later, someone used random data. That worked. Using random data either of us can prove that the other does not actually exist.