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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... bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-19-516199-8 1. Intelligent design (Teleology) 2. Religion and science. I. Title. BS651.S54 2003 213—dc21 2003042916 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper.
... bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-19-516199-8 1. Intelligent design (Teleology) 2. Religion and science. I. Title. BS651.S54 2003 213—dc21 2003042916 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper.
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... religious extremists who hope to turn the clock of science back to medieval times. The current assault is targeted mainly at educational institutions and science education in particular. However, it is an important fragment of a much ...
... religious extremists who hope to turn the clock of science back to medieval times. The current assault is targeted mainly at educational institutions and science education in particular. However, it is an important fragment of a much ...
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... religious instruction. As the wedge is driven still deeper, it is hoped that the consequent cracks will spread to other institutions, such as our legal and political institutions. At the fat end of the wedge lurks the specter of a ...
... religious instruction. As the wedge is driven still deeper, it is hoped that the consequent cracks will spread to other institutions, such as our legal and political institutions. At the fat end of the wedge lurks the specter of a ...
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... religion) discussion group organized by Jeff Wardeska here at East Tennessee State University. I am also grateful to Julia Wade and the members of the adult Sunday school at First Presbyterian Church in Elizabethton, Tennessee. These ...
... religion) discussion group organized by Jeff Wardeska here at East Tennessee State University. I am also grateful to Julia Wade and the members of the adult Sunday school at First Presbyterian Church in Elizabethton, Tennessee. These ...
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... Religious extremists, however, see Darwin's work (and subsequent developments in evolutionary biology) as the inspired work of the Devil, and a larger number of Christians, not so extreme in their views, claim to see in nature evidence ...
... Religious extremists, however, see Darwin's work (and subsequent developments in evolutionary biology) as the inspired work of the Devil, and a larger number of Christians, not so extreme in their views, claim to see in nature evidence ...
Зміст
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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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