Perhaps so, perhaps not so. Committed evolutionists as well as their creationist counterparts will appreciate this chapter. Casti finds this problem to be the most perplexing of all those considered and, in announcing his verdict, wonders why so many participants in the struggle cling so strongly to one position to the complete exclusion of the other. The arguments of Chomsky and Fodor are matched against those of Skinner, Piaget and others who argue strongly that language is just another learning activity, and is not unique. Chapter 5 comes close to this reviewer's professional field.
Digital computers can, in principle, literally think.
Chapter 7 was the most frustrating, for it was the most profound. Common sense tells one immediately that this claim is nonsense. Common sense is sometimes wrong. In the end, three of the six claims won in Casti's court, one was a draw and two lost. But the cases are ongoing.