No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence
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William A. Dembski (Author)
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Darwin's greatest accomplishment was to show how life might be explained as the result of natural selection. But does Darwin's theory mean that life was unintended? William A. Dembski argues that it does not. In this book Dembski extends his theory of intelligent design. Building on his earlier work in The Design Inference (Cambridge, 1998), he defends that life must be the product of intelligent design. Critics of Dembski's work have argued that evolutionary algorithms show that life can be explained apart from intelligence. But by employing powerful recent results from the No Free Lunch Theory, Dembski addresses and decisively refutes such claims. As the leading proponent of intelligent design, Dembski reveals a designer capable of originating the complexity and specificity found throughout the cosmos. Scientists and theologians alike will find this book of interest as it brings the question of creation firmly into the realm of scientific debate.
About the Author
William A. Dembski is associate research professor in the conceptual foundations of science at Baylor University and senior fellow with Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture in Seattle.
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- Contributor: William A. Dembski
- Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- ISBN13: 9780742512979
- Number of Pages: 432
- Packaged Dimensions: 175x235x36mm
- Packaged Weight: 785
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
- Release Date: 2001-12-18
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: William A. Dembski is associate research professor in the conceptual foundations of science at Baylor University and senior fellow with Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture in Seattle.
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