
Intelligent Design
An Intellectual Challenge?
Aalborg Universitetsforlag (Publisher)
Published on 1. February 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
116 pages
978-87-7307-930-0 (ISBN)
Description
The basic claim of intelligent design is that some significant problems inherent in the core of the scientific theories about the origin of life are being neglected in the mainstream of modern epistemology, scientific thinking, and philosophy of science. The advocates of the intelligent design hold that certain features of the universe and of living things can only be explained by an intelligent cause, not just be reference to an undirected process such as natural selection. They also hold that a proper description of nature should include the notion of 'purpose' i.e. that teleological descriptions should not in principle be excluded from the scientific literature. A great majority of the scientific community rejects the scientific validity and relevance of these claims. On the other hand, the idea of intelligent design has given rise to some interesting epistemological, methodological, and ontological questions, which are relevant for the formulation and understanding of science. In this book a group of scientists and philosophers discuss these questions. Some of the authors defend the basic ideas of intelligent design while others oppose these ideas.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Aarhus
Denmark
Publishing group
Aarhus University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 165 mm
Width: 235 mm
Weight
222 gr
ISBN-13
978-87-7307-930-0 (9788773079300)
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Persons
Maziar H Etemadi is ph.d at the Department og Learning and Philophy, Universitety of Aalborg, Denmark. Peter Ohrstrom, dr.scient. & lic.phil.is Professor at The Department of Communication and Psychology, University of Aalborg, Denmark Areas of interest: The concept of Time, Philosophical logic, Existential and Conceptual Graphs, Natural and Formal Languages, Science and Ethics.
Content
Intelligent Design in Historical Perspective; The Basic Ideas of Intelligent Design; Evolution or Intelligent Design; The designed water flow through a plant leaf; To be or not to be intelligently designed -- that's the question; Evolution, Intelligent Design and the re-emergence of Militant Atheism