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Why intelligent design fails : a scientific critique of the new creationism / edited by Matt Young and Taner Edis. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2004. - xiii, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-222) and index.

Grand themes, narrow constituency / Taner Edis -- Grand designs and facile analogies / Matt Young -- Common descent / Gert Korthof -- Darwin's transparent box / David Ussery -- Evolutionary paths to irreducible systems / Alan D. Gishlick -- Evolution of the bacterial flagellum / Ian Musgrave -- Self-organization and the origin of complexity / Niall Shanks and Istvan Karsai -- The explanatory filter, archaeology, and forensics / Gary S. Hurd -- Playing games with probability / Jeffrey Shallit and Wesley Elsberry -- Chance and Necessity and Intelligent Design? / Taner Edis -- There is a free lunch after all / Mark Perakh -- Is the universe fine-tuned for us? / Victor J. Stenger -- Is intelligent design science? / Matt Perakh and Matt Young.

ISBN: 081353433X (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2003020100

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Creationism.
Evolution.

LC Class. No.: BL240.3 / .W49 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 213