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Poor Design: An Invalid Argument Against Intelligent Design
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.
230 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 31, 2019
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Jerry Bergman
60 books19 followersPh.D. in Human Biology, Columbia Pacific University, San Rafael, California
Ph.D. in measurement and evaluation, minor in psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit
M.S. in Biomedical Science, Medical College of Ohio
Jerry Bergman has taught biology, genetics, chemistry, biochemistry, anthropology, geology, and microbiology at Northwest State College in Archbold OH for over 17 years. Now completing his 9th degree, Dr. Bergman has over 600 publications in 12 languages and 20 books and monographs. He has also taught at the Medical College of Ohio where was a research associate in the department of experimental pathology, and he also taught 6 years at the University of Toledo, and 7 years at Bowling Green State University.
Dr. Bergman has presented over one hundred scientific papers at professional and community meetings in the United States, Canada, and Europe. To discuss his research, he has been a featured speaker on many college campuses throughout the United States and Europe, and is a frequent guest on radio and television programs. His research has made the front page in newspapers throughout the country, has been featured by the Paul Harvey Show several times, and has been discussed by David Brinkley, Chuck Colson, and other nationally known commentators on national television.
His other work experience includes over ten years experience at various Mental Health/Psychology clinics as a licensed professional clinical counselor and three years full time corrections research for a large county circuit court in Michigan and inside the walls of Jackson Prison (SPSM), the largest walled prison in the world. He has also served as a consultant for CBS News, ABC News, Reader’s Digest, Amnesty International, several government agencies and for two Nobel Prize winners, including the inventor of the transistor. In the past decade he has consulted or has testified as an expert witness or consultant in almost one-hundred court cases. A Fellow of the American Scientific Association, member of The National Association for the Advancement of Science, and many other professional associations, he is listed in Who’s Who in America.
Ph.D. in measurement and evaluation, minor in psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit
M.S. in Biomedical Science, Medical College of Ohio
Jerry Bergman has taught biology, genetics, chemistry, biochemistry, anthropology, geology, and microbiology at Northwest State College in Archbold OH for over 17 years. Now completing his 9th degree, Dr. Bergman has over 600 publications in 12 languages and 20 books and monographs. He has also taught at the Medical College of Ohio where was a research associate in the department of experimental pathology, and he also taught 6 years at the University of Toledo, and 7 years at Bowling Green State University.
Dr. Bergman has presented over one hundred scientific papers at professional and community meetings in the United States, Canada, and Europe. To discuss his research, he has been a featured speaker on many college campuses throughout the United States and Europe, and is a frequent guest on radio and television programs. His research has made the front page in newspapers throughout the country, has been featured by the Paul Harvey Show several times, and has been discussed by David Brinkley, Chuck Colson, and other nationally known commentators on national television.
His other work experience includes over ten years experience at various Mental Health/Psychology clinics as a licensed professional clinical counselor and three years full time corrections research for a large county circuit court in Michigan and inside the walls of Jackson Prison (SPSM), the largest walled prison in the world. He has also served as a consultant for CBS News, ABC News, Reader’s Digest, Amnesty International, several government agencies and for two Nobel Prize winners, including the inventor of the transistor. In the past decade he has consulted or has testified as an expert witness or consultant in almost one-hundred court cases. A Fellow of the American Scientific Association, member of The National Association for the Advancement of Science, and many other professional associations, he is listed in Who’s Who in America.
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December 6, 2023
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Exceedingly repetitive and full of examples of circular reasoning, the author seems to mistake the reason the body works as it currently exists as proof that this is the only way a theoretical body could ever work.
Displays an intense lack of understanding for mutation probability and the existence of benign and detrimental mutations, focusing solely on beneficial mutations.
The book repeatedly posits that statements made as jokes by scientists talking to other scientists are serious claims.
Very few of the cited sources are from the last decade.
The formatting is atrocious with images and diagrams stretched and squashed to fit. Text is indented seemingly at random.
Book also repeats its own points over and over because, by the authors own admission at the beginning of the book, he was not intending to write a book so much as collect his own essays in once place.
Exceedingly repetitive and full of examples of circular reasoning, the author seems to mistake the reason the body works as it currently exists as proof that this is the only way a theoretical body could ever work.
Displays an intense lack of understanding for mutation probability and the existence of benign and detrimental mutations, focusing solely on beneficial mutations.
The book repeatedly posits that statements made as jokes by scientists talking to other scientists are serious claims.
Very few of the cited sources are from the last decade.
The formatting is atrocious with images and diagrams stretched and squashed to fit. Text is indented seemingly at random.
Book also repeats its own points over and over because, by the authors own admission at the beginning of the book, he was not intending to write a book so much as collect his own essays in once place.
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