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Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism

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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.

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

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53 reviews28 followers
August 12, 2012
The book makes solid arguments against creationism and intelligent design. Some parts are heavy with biological science details, which, while good information, bogged down a lay reader such as myself.
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33 reviews2 followers
October 14, 2022
I’ve read many books from opponents of ID, and this is by far the most convincing and best one out there. Highly recommend.
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2 reviews
August 17, 2021
يقدم مؤلفوا الكتاب ردود صلبة على منتقدي نظرية التطور من الخلقيين (التصميم الذكي,الارض الفتية) وتتقسم الاجابات على الاسئلة الى عدد من الفصول, كل فصل يتم الرد على الحجج بأدلة علمية حاسمة.

وبرغم كل هذا, الا ان بعض الفصول ليست بجودة الفصول الاخرى ولهذا تقييمي للكتاب 3 نجمات.
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249 reviews55 followers
January 13, 2022
كتاب جيد مثري، حيادي، ممتاز كبداية لمن يرغب في القراءة عن نظرية التطور
40 reviews
November 23, 2024
This book is a collection of papers, all of which refute ID. As such, it gets a little bit repetitive because all the authors and papers are refuting a very few ID proponents, most often Dembski. It's not that I disagree with the authors, I don't. But due to the format this book fails as a concise, focused critic. Do I really need to learn the mechanics of a birds wing in minut detail for page after page to see that flight could have evolved? There are a lot of good arguments here, and the last chapter "Is intelligent design science?" really sums up the whole book. Spoiler alert: no, ID is not science.
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10 reviews3 followers
March 20, 2021
كتاب جميل، وممتع في بعض فصوله
قد تواجه بعض الملل في مباحث معينة؛ يتطلب منك التركيز والبحث خصوصا لو لم تكن ملماً بالعلوم الطبيعية.
من ناحية أخرى فـ الكتاب يتناول كل ماله صلة بنظرية التطور ويدعمها، ويفند ويدحض أي علم زائف؛ لا يمتلك دليلا.
فنظرية التصميم الذكي، وعمر الأرض الفتية، ومركزية الأرض وغيرها، لم تعد نافعة او صامدة أمام ترسانة من الحقائق العلمية والأدلة المثبتة والداعمة للنظريات العلمية بشتى أفرعها؛ البيولوجية منها، والفيزيائية، والفلكية، وكل ماله علاقة بالانثروبولوجيا وغيره.
باختصار كتاب علمي حيادي لا ترى فيه أي تعصباً من قبل الكاتب أو بمعنى أصح من قبل كتاب هذا الكتاب.
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