The Design Matrix: A Consilience of Clues

by Mike Gene

Looking at a living cell is like looking into the future of our own designs. Within the cell, the chemical processes that make life possible are under teh control of coded inforamtion and sophisticated molecular machines. Could life be a true example of carbon-based nanotechnology that origianted from Mind? Could an intelligent agent possibly have designed life to exploit evolution? Could evolution and Intelligent Design be intimately linked in an elaborate dance we call life? Culminating with an insightful twist, Mike Gene has devised a unique, open-ended scoring methodology to help resolve such questions. With an analysis and approach that circumvents the polarization that typically plagues this discussion, he offers a truly fresh perspective on teh continuing and controversial debate between evolution and Intelligent Design. The Design A Consilience of Clues is unlike any other book on Intelligent Design and evolution you will ever read. It is the beginning of a journey.

316 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 2007

Reviews

[Donald · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fabulous book. I emailed the pseudonymous writer of this book because I found his analysis nearly flawless and his command of the subject authoritative. I will copy the contents of my email because it says exactly how I feel about the ID v Evolution controversy:

Thank you for your book. I am not a biologist, but a computer
programmer with an education in Philosophical Theology. I live in
the Kansas City area where, in ‘06 the debate on this subject became
workplace water-cooler chat in hushed tones; so I started reading
about it with a novice’s interest. I read seven or eight books
penned by Behe, Dembski, Wells, Denton, et al, but couldn’t quite get
a grasp of what ID might offer as an alternative. Intuitively it
makes sense that there are more points of view worth consideration in
this discipline, as in any other . You provided a considerably
detailed background essential to the subject in readable prose that
provides the layman access to the complexities of your profession.
The Design Matrix opened my mind to possibilities formerly
unimaginable to me. I hope both sides of this controversy consider
your methodology.

Mr. Gene published my note on his blog:

http://www.thedesignmatrix.com/content/

I also include in this unconventional review a remark by Michael Ruse:

Call it what you like--"idealogy," "metaphysics," "philosophy"--there is a non-factual element in science which reflects scientists' hopes and desires. Moreover, this non-factual element is very important in the acceptability and acceptance of a science.
Michael Ruse,
"The Ideology of Darwinism" (appended discussion) in Darwin Today: The 8th Kuhlungsborn Colloquium on Philosophical and Ethical Problems of Biosciences, eds. E. Geissler and W. Scheler (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1983), p. 254.

Creationists are as fully committed as any Neo-Darwinist, although both would probably argue that the other is guilty, but not themselves.

It seems to me wise to consider our own presuppositions, not to discard them, but grant that others have them also. Science is the process of learning, as is philosophy and theology. Philosophers, theologians, and scientists must all acknowledge this. Admittedly, so must programmers.

This book is not a compromise, but a point of view that is quite persuasive. I highly recommend it to those curious enough to risk questioning their presuppositions.

[Andrea]

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