Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism - Hardcover

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9780813534336: Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 081353433X ISBN 13: 9780813534336
Verlag: Rutgers University Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

The intelligent design movement argues that Darwinian evolution is old hat, a mere dogma, ready to be overtaken by the next scientific revolution. This book examines intelligent design from a scientific perspective and finds grandiose claims without merit.

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Críticas

"A terrific book that explores, fairly and openly, whether proponents of ID have any scientifically valid gadgets in their toolbox at all ... accessibly written throughout and an invaluable aid to teachers and scientists."

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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.

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Verlag
Rutgers University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
081353433X
ISBN 13 
9780813534336
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
238
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