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| Author(s): | S. Sarkar |
| Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing |
| ISBN: | 9781405154918 |
| Format: | softback |
| 214pp | |
| Price: | £12.99 |
| Review Date: | 06 June 2007 |
| Review: | In the US George Bush proposed that Intelligent Design (ID) should be taught in schools along with the theory of evolution. In the UK Tony Blair told parliament that he was happy for creationism to be taught along with evolution in some state schools run by a private foundation. This book is about the claim that ID is good science to be taught in science classes. It is a book about ideas and arguments, leaving out politics and arguments about whether religion is or is not rational. ID creationists argue that complex adaptations could not have been produced by natural selection or any other natural process. Here the author examines the central argument of intelligent design – that intelligent mechanisms are involved – and gives the reasons for rejecting this central argument. There are chapters on: Darwin and Wallace; the argument for Design; evolution; the ‘no free lunch’ theorem; complexity; cosmic coincidences; and naturalism. The last chapter gives the author’s conclusions on why ID should not be taught in the classroom. |