Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-207) and index.
Contents:
Final assessment -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Introduction -- The central argument -- The evidence for evolution -- Rejecting theories -- Plan of the book -- 2. The legacy of Darwin and Wallace -- The theory of natural selection -- "Absurd in the highest possible degree" -- Darwin's unfortunate retreat -- Wallace and Weismann -- The decline of Darwinism -- Mind and culture -- Contemporary implications -- 3. The argument from design -- Adaptation and design -- Function, design,and selection -- Blind variation -- Dembski's resurrection -- 4. Mere evolution -- Mendel's legacy -- The modern framework for evolutionary theory -- Selectionism and neutralism -- Reconstructing the past -- Contemporary debates -- Terminological choices -- 5. The cost of lunch -- Evolutionary algorithms -- The "No free lunch" theorems -- Dembski's excitement -- Utter irrelevance -- Adaptationism -- Final assessment -- 10. Index. Irreducible complexity? -- Pathways to ICSs -- The citric acid cycle -- The blood clotting system -- The bacterial flagellum -- Protein evolution -- Irreducibility and design -- 7. Questions of information -- What is biological information? -- Information and evolution -- Specified complexity -- The law of conservation of information -- The Cambrian "explosion" -- Taking leave of creation biology -- 8. Cosmic coincidences -- Physics and biology -- Anthropic principles? -- The force of improbability -- A cosmological design argument -- Is fine-tuning surprising? -- A concluding note -- 9. Naturalism and its discontents -- What naturalism is -- Nagel's legacy -- The problem of normativity -- Creationist critiques -- Metaphysical naturalism -- 10. Conclusions -- Critiques of evolutionary theory -- Is ID science? -- Back to the classroom -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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