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by Taner Edis; Matt Young; Contribution by Gary Hurd


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Is Darwinian evolution established fact, or a dogma ready to be overtaken by "intelligent design"? This is the debate raging in courtrooms and classrooms across the country.

Why Intelligent Design Fails assembles a team of physicists, biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and archaeologists to examine intelligent design from a scientific perspective. They consistently find grandiose claims without merit.

Contributors take intelligent design's two most famous claims--irreducible complexity and information-based arguments--and show that neither challenges Darwinian evolution. They also discuss thermodynamics and self-organization; the ways human design is actually identified in fields such as forensic archaeology; how research in machine intelligence indicates that intelligence itself is the product of chance and necessity; and cosmological fine-tuning arguments.

Intelligent design turns out to be a scientific mistake, but a mistake whose details highlight the amazing power of Darwinian thinking and the wonders of a complex world without design.

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IN THE BEGINNING, there was young-earth creationism.

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  • Title Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism
  • Author Taner Edis; Matt Young; Contribution by Gary Hurd
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New edition
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, U. S. A.
  • Date March 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780813538723 / 0813538726
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.6 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.52 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003020100
  • Dewey Decimal Code 213

About the author

Matt Young is senior lecturer at the Colorado School of Mines and a former physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He is the author of No Sense of Obligation: Science and Religion in an Impersonal Universe and two other books.
Taner Edis is an associate professor of physics at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri, and the author of The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science.
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