Why intelligent design fails : a scientific critique of the new creationsim [sic. creationism

Is Darwinian evolution established fact, or a dogma ready to be overtaken by the next scientific revolution? The intelligent design movement argues the latter.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 also a useful contrast highlighting the amazing power of Darwinian thinking and the wonders of a complex world without design. Why Intelligent Design Fails Assembles A Team Of Physicists, Biologists, Computer Scientists, Mathematicians, And Archaeologists To Examine Intelligent Design From A Scientific Perspective. Contributors Take Intelligent Design's Two Most Famous Claims - Irreducible Complexity And Information-based Arguments - And Show That Neither Challenges Darwinian Evolution.--jacket. Grand Themes, Narrow Constituency / Taner Edis -- Grand Designs And Facile Analogies / Matt Young -- Common Descent / Gert Korthof -- Darwin's Transparent Box / David Ussery -- Evolutionary Paths To Irreducible Systems / Alan D. Gishlick -- Evolution Of The Bacterial Flagellum / Ian Musgrave -- Self-organization And The Origin Of Complexity / Niall Shanks And Istvan Karsai -- The Explanatory Filter, Archaeology, And Forensics / Gary S. Hurd -- Playing Games With Probability / Jeffrey Shallit And Wesley Elsberry -- Chance And Necessity--and Intelligent Design? / Taner Edis -- There Is A Free Lunch After All / Mark Perakh -- Is The Universe Fine-tuned For Us? / Victor J. Stenger -- Is Intelligent Design Science? / Matt Perakh And Matt Youn. Edited By Matt Young, Taner Edis. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 207-222) And Index. 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. 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 also a useful contrast highlighting the amazing power of Darwinian thinking and the wonders of a complex world without design. "Why Intelligent Design Fails assembles a team of physicists, biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and archaeologists to examine intelligent design from a scientific perspective. Contributors take intelligent design's two most famous claims - irreducible complexity and information-based arguments - and show that neither challenges Darwinian evolution."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved