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Title: Unintelligent Design by Mark Perakh ISBN: 1-59102-084-0 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: December, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.54 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Unnecessary Book
Comment: Unintelligent Design is a book that should have not been written. Evolution has met every single scientific test. Creationism, and "intelligent design" is merely creationism under a different name, has failed every single scientific test. Any argument about the two should have been rendered moot decades ago.
Alas, it is not to be as long as fools insist on simple answers to complex problems.
Keith Taylor
Chula Vista, CA
Rating: 5
Summary: Intelligently debunking intelligent design
Comment: Perakh has really done it! For years, I have been studying creationist exegeses designed to "prove" harmony between science and the Book of Genesis, and I have been studying intelligent-design pseudoscience. I thought there was nothing new under the sun. I was delighted, therefore, to find any number of original observations in this book. This book should become a handbook for anyone who wants to counter Ross and Schroeder, on the one hand, and Dembski and Behe, on the other.
Rating: 5
Summary: Well worth the effort
Comment: I've been reading about the creationism/evolution debate for twenty years now, and this book is an extremely important addition to that discussion. Perakh has two basic points as he works his way through the major advocates of ID (Intelligent Design). One is that they misuse statistics is ways that are intuitively reasonable but ultimately incorrect. This is why he includes a discussion of the Bible Code, another case of statistics gone awry.
His second point, and one that I hadn't seen spelled out so well before, is that the idea of irreducible complexity is a jumbled compilation of observations which Paley and others have offered much more clearly long ago. Perakh breaks down each component of irreducible complexity and shows how it does not justify the strong claims made for it by ID theorists.
My frustration in all of this is that the people who most need to read this book aren't going to take the time and effort necessary to engage in his arguments.
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Title: God, the Devil, and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory by Niall Shanks, Richard Dawkins ISBN: 0195161998 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Impossibility of God by Michael Martin, Ricki Monnier ISBN: 1591021200 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design by Barbara Carroll Forrest, Paul R. Gross ISBN: 0195157427 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Life's Solution : Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe by Simon Conway Morris ISBN: 0521827043 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 04 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: A Devil's Chaplain : Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love by Richard Dawkins ISBN: 0618335404 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 29 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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