Why Intellligent Design Fails. a Scientfic Critique of the New Creationism

New Brunswick, New Jersey, U. S. A.: Rutgers University Press. New. 2006. Paperback. 0813538726 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened - 238 pages. Book description: "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. " -- with a bonus offer-- .