God, the Devil, and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design TheoryOxford University Press, 8 січ. 2004 р. - 296 стор. In the last fifteen years a controversial new theory of the origins of biological complexity and the nature of the universe has been fomenting bitter debates in education and science policy across North America, Europe, and Australia. Backed by intellectuals at respectable universities, Intelligent Design Theory (ID) proposes an alternative to accepted accounts of evolutionary theory: that life is so complex, and that the universe is so fine-tuned for the appearance of life, that the only plausible explanation is the existence of an intelligent designer. For many ID theorists, the designer is taken to be the god of Christianity. Niall Shanks has written the first accessible introduction to, and critique of, this controversial new intellectual movement. Shanks locates the growth of ID in the last two decades of the twentieth century in the growing influence of the American religious right. But as he shows, its roots go back beyond Aquinas to Ancient Greece. After looking at the historical roots of ID, Shanks takes a hard look at its intellectual underpinnings, discussing modern understandings of thermodynamics, and how self-organizing processes lead to complex physical, chemical, and biological systems. He considers cosmological arguments for ID rooted in so-called "anthropic coincidences" and also tackles new biochemical arguments for ID based on "irreducible biological complexity." Throughout he shows how arguments for ID lack cohesion, rest on errors and unfounded suppositions, and generally are grossly inferior to evolutionary explanations. While ID has been proposed as a scientific alternative to evolutionary biology, Shanks argues that ID is in fact "old creationist wine in new designer label bottles" and moreover is a serious threat to the scientific and democratic values that are our cultural and intellectual inheritance from the Enlightenment. |
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... explains, simply and logically, why they are wrong and evolution is right. Chapter follows chapter in logical sequence, moving from history through biology to cosmology, and ending with a cogent and perceptive analysis of the underlying ...
... explains, simply and logically, why they are wrong and evolution is right. Chapter follows chapter in logical sequence, moving from history through biology to cosmology, and ending with a cogent and perceptive analysis of the underlying ...
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... explanation. Specified complexity is the phenomenon we seek to explain. It is obviously futile to try to explain it simply by specifying even greater complexity. Darwinism really does explain it in terms of something simpler—which in ...
... explanation. Specified complexity is the phenomenon we seek to explain. It is obviously futile to try to explain it simply by specifying even greater complexity. Darwinism really does explain it in terms of something simpler—which in ...
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... explaining that a railway engine was propelled by Force Locomotif. With the best will in the world, I can see no difference at all between force locomotif, or my hypothetically lazy version of Hodgkin and Huxley, and the really lazy ...
... explaining that a railway engine was propelled by Force Locomotif. With the best will in the world, I can see no difference at all between force locomotif, or my hypothetically lazy version of Hodgkin and Huxley, and the really lazy ...
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... wedge seeking cracks in our secular democratic institutions. And intelligent design theorists themselves have made much of the metaphor of the wedge. In this book, I explain what intelligent design theory is, 6 GOD, THE DEVIL, AND DARWIN.
... wedge seeking cracks in our secular democratic institutions. And intelligent design theorists themselves have made much of the metaphor of the wedge. In this book, I explain what intelligent design theory is, 6 GOD, THE DEVIL, AND DARWIN.
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... explanation of natural phenomena in natural terms; put slightly differently, such causes as there are of natural effects must themselves be natural, as opposed to supernatural. Intelligent design theorists make much of naturalism and ...
... explanation of natural phenomena in natural terms; put slightly differently, such causes as there are of natural effects must themselves be natural, as opposed to supernatural. Intelligent design theorists make much of naturalism and ...
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1 The Evolution of Intelligent Design Arguments | 19 |
2 Darwin and the Illusion of Intelligent Design | 50 |
3 Thermodynamics and the Origins of Order | 93 |
4 Science and the Supernatural | 135 |
5 The Biochemical Case for Intelligent Design | 160 |
6 The Cosmological Case for Intelligent Design | 191 |
Intelligent Designs on Society | 224 |
Glossary | 247 |
Bibliography | 259 |
Index | 269 |
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