| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 238 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index. |
| Contents |
Grand themes, narrow constituency / Taner Edis -- Grand designs and facile analogies / Matt Young -- Common descent / Gert Korthof -- Darwin's transparent box / David Ussery -- Evolutionary paths to irreducible systems / Alan D. Gishlick -- Evolution of the bacterial flagellum / Ian Musgrave -- Self-organization and the origin of complexity / Niall Shanks, Istvan Karsai -- The explanatory filter, archaeology, and forensics / Gary S. Hurd -- Playing games with probability / Jeffrey Shallit, Wesley Elsberry -- Chance and Necessity and Intelligent Design? / Taner Edis -- There is a free lunch after all / Mark Perakh -- Is the universe fine-tuned for us? / Victor J. Stenger -- Is intelligent design science? / Matt Perakh, Matt Young. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
"Why Intelligent Design Fails assembles a team of physicists, biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and archaeologists to examine intelligent design from a scientific perspective. Contributors take intelligent design's two most famous claims - irreducible complexity and information-based arguments - and show that neither challenges Darwinian evolution."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Incorporated All Rights Reserved. |
| Subject |
Creationism.
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Evolution.
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RELIGION -- Philosophy.
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Creationism. (OCoLC)fst00882407
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Evolution. (OCoLC)fst00917265
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Young, Matt, 1941-
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Edis, Taner, 1967-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Why intelligent design fails. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004 081353433X (DLC) 2003020100 (OCoLC)53038740 |
| ISBN |
0813537487 (electronic bk.) |
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9780813537481 (electronic bk.) |
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