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Title: Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe by Ignatius Press, Michael Behe, William A. Dembski, Stephen C. Meyer ISBN: 0-89870-809-5 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Forget the critics
Comment: I have to give this book 5 stars to counter-balance the two reviews that slam this book. It is obvious that neither reviewer has read this book, in part or in total.
Intelligent Design is not creation science. It accepts evolution (i.e., common descent), gradual change over time, and natural selection as a fine-tuning mechanicism of life. It merely suggests that the formation of life is guided by intelligence - the exact question of how that intelligence performed its work, or who that intelligence is, is left open. (It could be anything from aliens to Zeus.)
Intelligent Design has caused Darwinian Fundamentalists to react with alarm because Darwinism is the central facet of their world view. Their objections are more philosophical than scientific (I've yet to read ONE negative review of an ID book that contains any science whatsoever). Darwinists have been the Grand Inquisitors of academia and are crushing real science. While Physics, Astronomy, Genetics, and other fields are literally taking quantum leaps into the future, evolutionary Biology has barely advanced past the early 1900s thanks to the the Fundamentalists' insistence that all evidence be construed, however obliquely, to support the notion that natural selection and random mutation can account for all life on earth.
Read about ID and make up your mind. Don't listen to Fundamentalists like Ken Miller and Richard Dawkins who are long on rhetoric and short on science.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent essays
Comment: This book is a compliation of three in-depth essays (first 113 pages) which study the possibility of intelligent design from a physics, mathematical and philosophical aspect. All three contributing authors (Michael Behe, William Dembski and Stephen Meyer) have their PhD's and speak with authority on the subject on hand. The remainder of the book (approximately an additional 80 pages) make up the appendix which supplies three additional essays which speak about Intelligent Design and answer specific criticisms against this theory. The first appendix, entitled Answering Scientific Criticisms of Intelligent Design, is written by Michael Behe, who received his PhD in biochemistry, and is possibly the best chapter of the entire book. It goes in-depth to answer criticisms leveled against the theory of Intelligent Design. Overall, the book is a great tool for aspiring Christian apologists who wish to discuss the topic of Intelligent Design with atheists. It is also a very good book for those who have problems with their faith and are looking for something a little more 'concrete' than faith alone. The book is extremely well written, it is heavy into the science so some background would help but is not essential. I would highly recommend this book to those who are interested in this subject.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fanatics cannot see the obvious
Comment: The obvious truths as exposed in the book cannot be denied by a true scientist who has developed the ability to look beyond his personal bias. One cannot read this book or similar ones without seeing the absurdity of the notion that there is no design behind an obviously designed product.
In today's pseudo science one can pretend that books in a library talk to each other when no one is around to check on them and get away with it if he proposes a "natural" solution to the problem. A bias toward naturalism or materialism is not credible science anymore that a bias toward creationism is. Evidence, such as contained in this book, should lead where it will. If science is forbidden from seeing the obvious because it is not "natural" then it becomes nothing more than a gathering place for fanatics.
I am the author of The Blind Atheist and I have debated materialists for years. I must agree that they are grasping at straws now. Their basis of naturalism is crumbling so they now resort to a pretention that evidence that points to Intelligent Design is not scientific. Well then, is it scientific to mislead the public into a materialistic solution when an intelligent one is indicated? Will books in a library really talk to each other given enough time, or do they simply contain the intelligent input of their creator? Will the laws of physics without intelligent input produce meaningful information given enough time? All of life is based on meaningful information. Time, the crutch of evolution, only obscures the problem and the obvious solution. But fanatics cannot see the obvious.
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Title: Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology by William A. Dembski, Michael J. Behe ISBN: 0830815813 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: DARWINS BLACK BOX: THE BIOCHEMICAL CHALLENGE TO EVOLUTION by Michael J. Behe ISBN: 0684834936 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 20 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Signs of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design by William A. Dembski, James M. Kushiner ISBN: 1587430045 Publisher: Brazos Press Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution is Wrong by Jonathan Wells, Jody F. Sjogren ISBN: 0895262002 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: A Case Against Accident and Self-Organization by Dean L. Overman, Wolfhart Pannenberg ISBN: 0847689662 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing (via NBN) Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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