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

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.

• Author
• Matt Young, Taner Edis

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 240

• Publisher
• Rutgers University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780813538723

• Genres
• science, evolution, atheism, philosophy, religion, skepticism

• Release date
• 2006