文档介绍：GOD, THE DEVIL, AND DARWIN
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GOD, THE DEVIL,
AND DARWIN
A CRITIQUE OF INTELLIGENT
DESIGN THEORY
Niall Shanks
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2004
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Foreword copyright # 2003 by Richard Dawkins
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shanks, Niall, 1959–
God, the devil, and Darwin : a critique of intelligent design theory / Niall Shanks.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-19-516199-8
1. Intelligent design (Teleology) 2. Religion and science. I. Title.
2003
213—dc21 2003042916
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For My Dogs, Gnasher and Brutus
Foreword
ho owns the argument from improbability? Statistical improb-
Wability is the old standby, the creaking warhorse of all creationists
from naive Bible-jocks who don’t know better, paratively well-
educated Intelligent Design ‘‘theorists,’’ who should. There is no
other creationist argument (if you discount falsehoods like ‘‘There
aren’t any intermediate fossils’’ and ignorant absurdities like ‘‘Evo-
lution violates the second law of thermodynamics’’). However super-
ficially different they may appear, under the surface the deep structure
of creationist advocacy is always the same. Something in nature—