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Darwin's Black Box

Author : Michael J. Behe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Evolution (Biology)
ISBN : 0684827549

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Behe argues that the complexity of cellular biochemistry argues against Darwin's gradual evolution.

The Edge of Evolution

Author : Michael J. Behe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780743296229

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The Edge of Evolution by Michael J. Behe Pdf

The author of Darwin's Black Box draws on new findings in genetics to pose an argument for intelligent design that refutes Darwinian beliefs about evolution while offering alternative analyses of such factors as disease, random mutations, and the human struggle for survival. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

Darwin Devolves

Author : Michael J. Behe
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780062842688

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The scientist who has been dubbed the “Father of Intelligent Design” and author of the groundbreaking book Darwin’s Black Box contends that recent scientific discoveries further disprove Darwinism and strengthen the case for an intelligent creator. In his controversial bestseller Darwin’s Black Box, biochemist Michael Behe challenged Darwin’s theory of evolution, arguing that science itself has proven that intelligent design is a better explanation for the origin of life. In Darwin Devolves, Behe advances his argument, presenting new research that offers a startling reconsideration of how Darwin’s mechanism works, weakening the theory’s validity even more. A system of natural selection acting on random mutation, evolution can help make something look and act differently. But evolution never creates something organically. Behe contends that Darwinism actually works by a process of devolution—damaging cells in DNA in order to create something new at the lowest biological levels. This is important, he makes clear, because it shows the Darwinian process cannot explain the creation of life itself. “A process that so easily tears down sophisticated machinery is not one which will build complex, functional systems,” he writes. In addition to disputing the methodology of Darwinism and how it conflicts with the concept of creation, Behe reveals that what makes Intelligent Design unique—and right—is that it acknowledges causation. Evolution proposes that organisms living today are descended with modification from organisms that lived in the distant past. But Intelligent Design goes a step further asking, what caused such astounding changes to take place? What is the reason or mechanism for evolution? For Behe, this is what makes Intelligent Design so important.

A Mousetrap for Darwin

Author : Michael Behe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1936599910

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In 1996 Darwin's Black Box thrust Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe into the national spotlight. The book, and his subsequent two, sparked a firestorm of criticism, and his responses appeared in everything from the New York Times to science blogs and the journal Science. His replies, along with a handful of brand-new essays, are now collected in A Mousetrap for Darwin. In engaging his critics, Behe extends his argument that much recent evidence, from the study of evolving microbes to mutations in dogs and polar bears, shows that blind evolution cannot build the complex machinery essential to life. Rather, evolution works principally by breaking things for short-term benefit. It can't construct anything fundamentally new. What can? Behe's money is on intelligent design.

A Tour of the Calculus

Author : David Berlinski
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780307789730

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Were it not for the calculus, mathematicians would have no way to describe the acceleration of a motorcycle or the effect of gravity on thrown balls and distant planets, or to prove that a man could cross a room and eventually touch the opposite wall. Just how calculus makes these things possible and in doing so finds a correspondence between real numbers and the real world is the subject of this dazzling book by a writer of extraordinary clarity and stylistic brio. Even as he initiates us into the mysteries of real numbers, functions, and limits, Berlinski explores the furthest implications of his subject, revealing how the calculus reconciles the precision of numbers with the fluidity of the changing universe. "An odd and tantalizing book by a writer who takes immense pleasure in this great mathematical tool, and tries to create it in others."--New York Times Book Review

Black Boxes

Author : Marco J. Nathan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190095482

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Bricks and boxes -- Between Scylla and Charybdis -- Lessons from the history of science -- Placeholders -- Black-boxing 101 -- History of science 'black-boxing style' -- Diet mechanistic philosophy -- Emergence reframed -- The fuel of scientific progress -- Sailing through the strait.

Debating Design

Author : William A. Dembski,Michael Ruse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139459619

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Debating Design by William A. Dembski,Michael Ruse Pdf

In this book, first published in 2004, William Dembski, Michael Ruse, and other prominent philosophers provide a comprehensive balanced overview of the debate concerning biological origins - a controversial dialectic since Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859. Invariably, the source of controversy has been 'design'. Is the appearance of design in organisms (as exhibited in their functional complexity) the result of purely natural forces acting without prevision or teleology? Or, does the appearance of design signify genuine prevision and teleology, and, if so, is that design empirically detectable and thus open to scientific inquiry? Four main positions have emerged in response to these questions: Darwinism, self-organisation, theistic evolution, and intelligent design. The contributors to this volume define their respective positions in an accessible style, inviting readers to draw their own conclusions. Two introductory essays furnish a historical overview of the debate.

Finding Darwin's God

Author : Kenneth R. Miller
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 0061233501

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From a leading authority on the evolution debates comes this critically acclaimed investigation into one of the most controversial topics of our times

Darwin's black box

Author : Michael J. Behe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1311502639

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Black Boxes

Author : Marco J. Nathan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190095505

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Textbooks and other popular venues commonly present science as a progressive "brick-by-brick" accumulation of knowledge and facts. Despite its hallowed history and familiar ring, this depiction is nowadays rejected by most specialists. There currently are two competing models of the scientific enterprise: reductionism and antireductionism. Neither provides an accurate depiction of the productive interaction between knowledge and ignorance, supplanting the old metaphor of the "wall" of knowledge. This book explores an original conception of the nature and advancement of science. Marco J. Nathan's proposed shift brings attention to a prominent, albeit often neglected, construct--the black box--which underlies a well-oiled technique for incorporating a productive role of ignorance and failure into the acquisition of empirical knowledge. The black box is a metaphorical term used by scientists for the isolation of a complex phenomenon that they have deliberately set aside or may not yet fully understand. What is a black box? How does it work? How do we construct one? How do we determine what to include and what to leave out? What role do boxes play in contemporary scientific practice? Nathan's monograph develops an overarching framework for thinking about black boxes and discusses prominent historical cases that used it, including Darwin's view of inheritance in his theory of evolution and the "stimulus-response model" in psychology, among others. By detailing some fascinating episodes in the history of biology, psychology, and economics, Nathan revisits foundational questions about causation, explanation, emergence, and progress, showing how the insights of both reductionism and antireductionism can be reconciled into a fresh and exciting approach to science.

Three Days Before the Sun

Author : Warren LeRoi Johns
Publisher : [email protected]
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Three Days Before the Sun explores our origin, purpose and destiny in an eternity of time and an infinity of space! The "holes" and "flaws" acknowledged by Darwin in his evolution theory are precisely targeted with academic precision in a format designed for the general public. The scrupulously documented title dismantles the chance hypothesis, point-by-point, as a lawyer presents evidence to a jury. The 296-page, illustrated title comes salted with homey colloquialisms, methodically exposing unproven assumptions. But more than an exposé of flawed conjecture masquerading as science. Three Days Before the Sun offers a generic Christian glimpse of the raging origins controversy. The book compliments the faith of Christian communities who believe the Genesis account of the creation miracle while asserting the Creator of the universe is the Author of science.

Is God a Reality?

Author : Carmel Paul Attard
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781532012211

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Is God a Reality? by Carmel Paul Attard Pdf

Why is there something rather than nothing? Was there a beginning to our universe, or was it always there? Everything around us winds down; was the universe wound up? Is there evidence of design in our universe, or was it the result of dumb luck? Are there other universes besides ours? Is life common in our universe? Did life on earth start spontaneously from inanimate matter? Is there evidence of intelligence in the living cell? Is there enough evidence for evolution? Did all life have a universal common ancestor? Does thinking emerge from brain complexity? Does the self exist, or is it just an illusion? Can science explain our consciousness? Can the soul or self be separated from the body? Is there any evidence for an afterlife? Is there any positive evidence for the existence of God, or is it all inferred? Is proposing the existence of a creator pseudoscience? Does survival of the fittest imply a malevolent creator? Why all this pain and suffering in life? Is there any meaning to life? Do heaven, hell, and purgatory exist; where are they? Is God a Reality? is a lifetime study of these questions by a scientist.

An Informed Cosmos

Author : Peter S. Williams
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666702972

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An Informed Cosmos by Peter S. Williams Pdf

After a substantial author's preface recounting the author's life-journey with the question of science and design in nature, An Informed Cosmos pulls together essays that jointly cover the core arguments for a scientific theory of intelligent design. Along with a foreword by philosopher of science and leading design theorist Stephen C. Meyer, and a wide range of recommended resources, An Informed Cosmos offers an informed overview of the contemporary case for intelligent design.

Mere Creation

Author : William A. Dembski
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830815155

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In this book a team of expert academics trained in mathematics, engineering, philosophy, physical anthropology, physics, astrophysics, biology and more investigate the prospects for intelligent design. Edited by William Dembski.

Law, Darwinism, and Public Education

Author : Francis J. Beckwith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781461638728

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Law, Darwinism, and Public Education by Francis J. Beckwith Pdf

In 1987, in Edwards v. Aguillard, the United States Supreme Court declared as unconstitutional a Louisiana statute requiring the state's public schools to teach creationism if evolution is taught and to teach evolution if creationism is taught. It was a serious blow to creationism in public schools, but a new movement since then has kept the debate alive. That new movement is 'Intelligent Design.' Should Intelligent Design be taught in schools? In Law, Darwinism, & Public Education, Francis J. Beckwith asks whether teaching 'ID' in public schools would be constitutional, in light of the Supreme Court's decision in Edwards v. Aguillard. At that time, the Court ruled that teaching creationism violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Beckwith examines the Intelligent Design theory and the Edwards case to find out whether teaching ID would suffer the same fate if brought before the court.