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Why intelligent design fails [electronic resource]

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Title Why intelligent design fails [electronic resource] : a scientific critique of the new creationsim [sic. creationism] / edited by Matt Young, Taner Edis.
Additional Titles Why intelligent design fails : a scientific critique of the new creationism
Publisher New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
Creation Date c2004
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content 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.
Extent xiii, 238 p. : ill.
Language English
National Library system number 997010700128205171
MARC RECORDS
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