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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783592003321

Titolo

Why intelligent design fails [[electronic resource] ] : a scientific critique of the new creationsim [sic. creationism] / / edited by Matt Young, Taner Edis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8135-6032-2

1-280-54006-0

9786610540068

0-8135-3748-7

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 238 p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

YoungMatt <1941->

EdisTaner <1967->

Disciplina

213

Soggetti

Intelligent design (Teleology)

Creationism

Evolution

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Grand themes, narrow constituency / Taner Edis -- Grand designs and facile analogies : exposing Behe's mousetrap and Dembski's arrow / Matt Young -- Common descent : it's all or nothing / Gert Korthof -- Darwin's transparent box : the biochemical evidence for evolution / David Ussery -- Evolutionary paths to irreducible systems : the avian flight apparatus / Alan D. Gishlick -- Evolution of the bacterial flagellum / Ian Musgrave -- Self-organization and the origin of complexity / Niall Shanks and Istvan Karsai -- The explanatory filter, archaeology, and forensics / Gary S. Hurd -- Playing games with probability : Dembski's complex specified information / Jeffrey Shallit and Wesley Elsberry -- Chance and necessity : and intelligent design? / Taner Edis -- There is a free lunch after all : William Dembski's wrong answers to irrelevant questions / Mark Perakh -- Is the universe fine-tuned for us? / Victor J. Stenger -- Is intelligent design science? / Matt Perakh and Matt Young -- Appendix : Organizations and web sites.