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Title: By Design: Science and the Search for God by Larry Witham ISBN: 1-893554-64-3 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: What a Marvelous Book!
Comment: This is a fantastic book for anyone looking to begin investigation of the Intelligent Design Movement. Most sections are well-written, and the technical detail is held to a minimum for the beginning reader on the topic. Much of the content from the book comes from interviews with the major players on both sides of the intelligent design-creation/evoltuion divide (although this particular book does not deal much with young earth creationists).
The book's strength is its readibility and its author's creativity in expositing the key elements in the current debate in just a little over 200 pages (no mean feat, there). Not limited to the biological realm, the book also discusses the design debate in the cosmological and physics contexts as well-a real positive.
An excellent item for the semi-sophisticated person who wants to start out with a broad overview on this topic. There is a sufficient source list at the end of the book for those who wish to explore Witham's sources further.
Rating: 5
Summary: ...by design, and arguments thereof...
Comment: I am not a member of this fan club but I snoop on the Intelligent Design movement, and this book came with the territory. As an independently funded Darwin critic I found this book interesting reading and, whatever one's views, the history of an attempt to assault the Darwinian paradigm bastions is a lesson of its own in the nature of knowledge, and the strange case of contemporary science. From the Templeton foundation to Philip Johnson and the crystallization of the ID movement the tale is brisk and insightful. The book also has an insider/outsider take with some details not normally promulgated in official circles. The sad part is that that secular culture cannot manage any such critique, and that the ID movement probably, despite considerable effort, still cannot penetrate the marionette minds of those fixated by Darwinism. I was interested in one quote from P. Johnson, who notes the way science and academia are able to make their own rules, and break those who don't conform. And they know full well there is a problem. That's the best way to stiffle debate. Exude faint cynicism, 'you are wasting your breath'. It is getting to be a silly business that will end in the great embarassment in the history of science, as the obsession continues to attempt to invade all fields like a plague of locusts. But I think sometime soon someone will start to realize they are sacrificing the intelligence of their dumbed-down meritocracy. Then perhaps finally panic will set in.
Rating: 5
Summary: Prying Open Closed Minds
Comment: This overview of the intelligent design movement is guaranteed to drive certain people crazy. Foremost among them will be fans of Richard Dawkins's "The Blind Watchmaker" and other acolytes of the modern religion of Scientism. Not science, mind you, which requires an open, inquisitive approach to data, but Scientism, the slavish devotion to the god Theory. Darwin handed down his discoveries, the earth shook, the sky trembled, don't try to teach anything else in OUR public schools.
The problem, as Witham demonstrates in his work, is that there are a great many questions left unanswered by Darwin, most of them revolving around what Michael Behe calls "irreducible complexity." There is no need to resort to the thought experiment of finding a watch in a field, as Dawkins does in his attempt to prove that random selection is the only force capable of or sufficent to explaining the world around us.
Behe, cited by Witham, makes things much easier: a simple mousetrap, with only five working parts, cannot have come together over billions of years by any natural process known or suspected. Half a mousetrap is useless, as is four-fifths. Only the complete mechanism will function, and the odds of a mousetrap "evolving" are astronomically, vanishingly small.
(Which begs an interesting question: Does Dawkins, and by extension his fans the Priests of Darwin, actually believe that a mechanism as complex as a pocketwatch will appear before their eyes if they sit in a field waiting for sufficient eons?)
Witham approaches this fascinating area of inquiry as an intelligent layman, surveying the experts in the field with an eye to offering the reader as complete an exposition of the intelligent design question as possible.
Highly recommended, but only to those willing to have their eyes, and minds, opened wide.
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Title: Modern Physics and Ancient Faith by Stephen M. Barr ISBN: 0268034710 Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Doubts About Darwin: A History of Intelligent Design by Thomas Woodward, Phillip E. Johnson ISBN: 0801064430 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions About Intelligent Design by William A. Dembski, Charles W. Colson ISBN: 0830823751 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery by Guillermo Gonzalez, Jay Wesley Richards ISBN: 0895260654 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: March, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: God and Design: The Teleological Argument and Modern Science by Neil A. Manson ISBN: 0415263441 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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