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

Edis, Taner

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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"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."

Reseña del editor

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

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