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Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism
Rutgers University Press, 2004 Paper: 978-0-8135-3872-3 | Cloth: 978-0-8135-3433-6 | eISBN: 978-0-8135-6032-8 Library of Congress Classification BL240.3.W49 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 213
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Is Darwinian evolution established fact, or a dogma ready to be overtaken by "intelligent design"? This is the debate raging in courtrooms and classrooms across the country. Why Intelligent Design Fails assembles a team of physicists, biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and archaeologists to examine intelligent design from a scientific perspective. They consistently find grandiose claims without merit. Contributors take intelligent design's two most famous claims--irreducible complexity and information-based arguments--and show that neither challenges Darwinian evolution. They also discuss thermodynamics and self-organization; the ways human design is actually identified in fields such as forensic archaeology; how research in machine intelligence indicates that intelligence itself is the product of chance and necessity; and cosmological fine-tuning arguments. Intelligent design turns out to be a scientific mistake, but a mistake whose details highlight the amazing power of Darwinian thinking and the wonders of a complex world without design. See other books on: Creationism | Evolution | Life Sciences | Science | Young, Matt See other titles from Rutgers University Press |
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Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
Rutgers University Press, 2004
Paper: 978-0-8135-3872-3
Cloth: 978-0-8135-3433-6
eISBN: 978-0-8135-6032-8
Paper: 978-0-8135-3872-3
Cloth: 978-0-8135-3433-6
eISBN: 978-0-8135-6032-8
Is Darwinian evolution established fact, or a dogma ready to be overtaken by "intelligent design"? This is the debate raging in courtrooms and classrooms across the country.
Why Intelligent Design Fails assembles a team of physicists, biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and archaeologists to examine intelligent design from a scientific perspective. They consistently find grandiose claims without merit.
Contributors take intelligent design's two most famous claims--irreducible complexity and information-based arguments--and show that neither challenges Darwinian evolution. They also discuss thermodynamics and self-organization; the ways human design is actually identified in fields such as forensic archaeology; how research in machine intelligence indicates that intelligence itself is the product of chance and necessity; and cosmological fine-tuning arguments.
Intelligent design turns out to be a scientific mistake, but a mistake whose details highlight the amazing power of Darwinian thinking and the wonders of a complex world without design.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
