num_pages: 240
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.
language: English
title: Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism
titlecomplete: Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism
genres: Atheism, Science, Philosophy, Religion, Skepticism, Nonfiction, Evolution
ratings_count: 49
publisher: Rutgers University Press