Why Intelligent Design Fails

Author : Matt Young,Taner Edis
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 081353433X

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Why Intelligent Design Fails by Matt Young,Taner Edis Pdf

Historically, religious scriptures are defined as holy texts that are considered to be beyond the abilities of the layperson to interpret. Their content is most frequently analyzed by clerics who do not question the underlying political or social implications of the text, but use the writing to convey messages to their congregations about how to live a holy existence. In Western society, moreover, what counts as scripture is generally confined to the Judeo-Christian Bible, leaving the voices of minorities, as well as the holy texts of faiths from Africa and Asia, for example, unheard. In this innovative collection of essays that aims to turn the traditional bible-study definition of scriptures on its head, Vincent L. Wimbush leads an in-depth look at the social, cultural, and racial meanings invested in these texts. Contributors hail from a wide array of academic fields and geographic locations and include such noted academics as Susan Harding, Elisabeth Shussler Fiorenza, and William L. Andrews. Purposefully transgressing disciplinary boundaries, this ambitious book opens the door to different interpretations and critical orientations, and in doing so, allows an ultimately humanist definition of scriptures to emerge."

Author : Matt Young,Taner Edis
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0813538726

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Why Intelligent Design Fails by Matt Young,Taner Edis Pdf

They consistently find grandiose claims with no scientific merit.

Author : Matt Young,Paul Strode
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0813548640

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Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails) by Matt Young,Paul Strode Pdf

Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails) is an impassioned argument in favor of science—primarily the theory of evolution—and against creationism. Why impassioned? Should not scientists be dispassionate in their work? “Perhaps,” write the authors, “but it is impossible to remain neutral when our most successful scientific theories are under attack, for religious and other reasons, by laypeople and even some scientists who willfully distort scientific findings and use them for their own purposes.” Focusing on what other books omit, how science works and how pseudoscience works, Matt Young and Paul K. Strode demonstrate the futility of “scientific” creationism. They debunk the notion of intelligent design and other arguments that show evolution could not have produced life in its present form. Concluding with a frank discussion of science and religion, Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails) argues that science by no means excludes religion, though it ought tocast doubt on certain religious claims that are contrary to known scientific fact.

Author : Matt Young,Taner Edis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Creationism
ISBN : 0813560322

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Why Intelligent Design Fails by Matt Young,Taner Edis Pdf

Author : Barbara Forrest,Paul R. Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195319736

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Creationism's Trojan Horse by Barbara Forrest,Paul R. Gross Pdf

"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2007."

Author : Michael Shermer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781429900904

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Why Darwin Matters by Michael Shermer Pdf

A creationist-turned-scientist demonstrates the facts of evolution and exposes Intelligent Design's real agenda Science is on the defensive. Half of Americans reject the theory of evolution and "Intelligent Design" campaigns are gaining ground. Classroom by classroom, creationism is overthrowing biology. In Why Darwin Matters, bestselling author Michael Shermer explains how the newest brand of creationism appeals to our predisposition to look for a designer behind life's complexity. Shermer decodes the scientific evidence to show that evolution is not "just a theory" and illustrates how it achieves the design of life through the bottom-up process of natural selection. Shermer, once an evangelical Christian and a creationist, argues that Intelligent Design proponents are invoking a combination of bad science, political antipathy, and flawed theology. He refutes their pseudoscientific arguments and then demonstrates why conservatives and people of faith can and should embrace evolution. He then appraises the evolutionary questions that truly need to be settled, building a powerful argument for science itself. Cutting the politics away from the facts, Why Darwin Matters is an incisive examination of what is at stake in the debate over evolution.

Author : William A. Dembski
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 083082314X

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Intelligent Design by William A. Dembski Pdf

In this book William A. Dembski brilliantly argues that intelligent design provides a crucial link between science and theology. This is a pivotal work from a thinker whom Phillip Johnson calls "one of the most important of the `design' theorists."

Author : John Brockman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307426406

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Intelligent Thought by John Brockman Pdf

Evolutionary science lies at the heart of a modern understanding of the natural world. Darwin’s theory has withstood 150 years of scientific scrutiny, and today it not only explains the origin and design of living things, but highlights the importance of a scientific understanding in our culture and in our lives. Recently the movement known as “Intelligent Design” has attracted the attention of journalists, educators, and legislators. The scientific community is puzzled and saddened by this trend–not only because it distorts modern biology, but also because it diverts people from the truly fascinating ideas emerging from the real science of evolution. Here, join fifteen of our preeminent thinkers whose clear, accessible, and passionate essays reveal the fact and power of Darwin’s theory, and the beauty of the scientific quest to understand our world.

Author : Bradley Monton
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781770480186

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Seeking God in Science by Bradley Monton Pdf

The doctrine of intelligent design is often the subject of acrimonious debate. Seeking God in Science cuts through the rhetoric that distorts the debates between religious and secular camps. Bradley Monton, a philosopher of science and an atheist, carefully considers the arguments for intelligent design and argues that intelligent design deserves serious consideration as a scientific theory. Monton also gives a lucid account of the debate surrounding the inclusion of intelligent design in public schools and presents reason why students’ science education could benefit from a careful consideration of the arguments for and against it.

Author : Ronald L. Numbers
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0674023390

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The Creationists by Ronald L. Numbers Pdf

In light of the embattled status of evolutionary theory, particularly as 'intelligent design' makes headway against Darwinism in the schools and in the courts, this account of the roots of creationism assumes new relevance. This edition offers an overview of the arguments and figures at the heart of the debate.

Author : Michael J. Behe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,8 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.

Author : Abby Hafer
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718844462

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The Not-So-Intelligent Designer by Abby Hafer Pdf

Why do men's testicles hang outside the body? Why does our appendix sometimes explode and kill us? And who does the Designer like better, anyway - us, or squid? These and other questions are addressed in The Not-So-Intelligent Designer. Dr. Abby Hafer argues that the human body has many faulty design features that would never have been the choice of an intelligent creator. She also points out other animals that got better body parts, which makes the Designer look a bit strange; discusses the history and politics of Intelligent Design and creationism; reveals animals that shouldn't exist according to Intelligent Design; and disposes of the idea of irreducible complexity. Her points are illustrated with pictures (by Alexander Winkler), wit, and erudition.

Author : Jerry Bergman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Human anatomy
ISBN : 1944918167

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Poor Design by Jerry Bergman Pdf

The "argument from poor design" is one of the most common arguments hurled at proponents of Intelligent Design. It's also completely mistaken. The components of the human body which critics claim to be products of "poor design" are really instances of the critics' own misunderstandings of the relevant engineering criteria. In this book, anatomy professor Jerry Bergman takes you on a tour of the human body's most criticized features and help you understand what they do and why they were made the way that they are.

Author : William A. Dembski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-13
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780521623872

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The Design Inference by William A. Dembski Pdf

This book presents a reliable method for detecting intelligent causes: the design inference.The design inference uncovers intelligent causes by isolating the key trademark of intelligent causes: specified events of small probability. Design inferences can be found in a range of scientific pursuits from forensic science to research into the origins of life to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. This challenging and provocative book shows how incomplete undirected causes are for science and breathes new life into classical design arguments. It will be read with particular interest by philosophers of science and religion, other philosophers concerned with epistemology and logic, probability and complexity theorists, and statisticians.

Author : Steve Fuller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780745654553

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Science vs. Religion by Steve Fuller Pdf

For centuries, science and religion have been portrayed as diametrically opposed. In this provocative new book, Steve Fuller examines the apparent clash between science and religion by focusing on the heated debates about evolution and intelligent design theory. In so doing, he claims that science vs. religion is in fact a false dichotomy. For Fuller, supposedly intellectual disputes, such as those between creationist and evolutionist accounts of life, often disguise other institutionally driven conflicts, such as the struggle between State and Church to be the source of legitimate authority in society. Nowadays many conservative anti-science groups support intelligent design theory, but Fuller argues that the theory's theological roots are much more radical, based on the idea that humans were created to fathom the divine plan, perhaps even complete it. He goes on to examine the unique political circumstances in the United States that make the emergence of intelligent design theory so controversial, yet so persistent. Finally, he considers the long-term prognosis, arguing that the future remains very much undecided as society reopens the question of what it means to be human. This book will appeal to all readers intrigued by the debates about creationism, intelligent design and evolution, especially those looking for an intellectually exciting confrontation with the politics and promise of intelligent design theory.