Doubting Darwin: Creationist Designs on Evolution (Blackwell Public Philosophy Series) by Sahotra Sarkar
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Book Summary Author: Sahotra Sarkar Edition: Paperback Audio: German (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2007-04-20 ISBN: 1405154918 Number of pages: 232 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell |
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Book Reviews of the Doubting Darwin: Creationist Designs on Evolution (Blackwell Public Philosophy Series)
Customer Review: A thorough trashing.
Summary: 3 Stars
This rather technical (think roughly Scientific American as opposed to New Scientist magazines) response to the putative "arguments" for intelligent design provides a thorough refutation of this form of creationism. It does this without claiming too much for science (there are frank admissions about the gaps in our understanding of certain mechanisms, but no problems that cannot at the least be solved in principle). It also does this with very infrequent reference to religion or the supernatural. Even though it must be acknowledged that for most intelligent design promoters, the motivation behind their support is religious, the author treats the intelligent design position as series of hypotheses that can be critically examined and tested, not as some metaphysical doctrine that cannot be falsified. Using the tools of science from peer reviewed documents, observation, field and lab work, and most especially, math and logic, it is demonstrated with cogent clarity that while there is much that seems improbable about evolutionary theory, there is nothing that is implausible, and the tenets of the theory are by far the best inference from the evidence. Intelligent design, by contrast, rests on unsupportable assumptions, gut intuition, and willing ignorance of inconvenient facts.