Design in the Age of Darwin
Title | Design in the Age of Darwin PDF eBook |
Author | Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art |
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Pages | |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Art and design |
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Design in the Age of Darwin
Title | Design in the Age of Darwin PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Eisenman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Art |
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Published in partnership with the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art to accompany its exhibit, this catalog of essays and more than fifty color exhibition plates invokes these two senses of "intelligent design"--one from the debates between science and theology and the other from the world of art, particularly architecture and the decorative arts. The extensive exhibition includes furniture, metalware, glassware, textiles, and designs on loan from public and private collections in the United States and England. Among the artwork included are items from William Morris, C. R. Ashbee, Christopher Dresser, C. F. A. Voysey, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Louis Sullivan.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism And Intelligent Design
Title | The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism And Intelligent Design PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Wells |
Publisher | Regnery Publishing |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2006-08-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1596980133 |
A non-technical analysis of the controversial culture war over Darwin versus intelligent design states that there is no irrefutable evidence supporting Darwinism, argues that Darwin-based theories that are taught in school are not fact-based, and reveals how scientists at major universities believe in intelligent design. Original.
Living with Darwin
Title | Living with Darwin PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Kitcher |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2009-04-28 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0199724997 |
Charles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century. In Living With Darwin, Philip Kitcher stokes the flames swirling around Darwin's theory, sifting through the scientific evidence for evolution, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design, and revealing why evolution has been the object of such vehement attack. Kitcher first provides valuable perspective on the present controversy, describing the many puzzles that blocked evolution's acceptance in the early years, and explaining how scientific research eventually found the answers to these conundrums. Interestingly, Kitcher shows that many of these early questions have been resurrected in recent years by proponents of Intelligent Design. In fact, Darwin himself considered the issue of intelligent design, and amassed a mountain of evidence that effectively refuted the idea. Kitcher argues that the problem with Intelligent Design isn't that it's "not science," as many critics say, but that it's "dead science," raising questions long resolved by scientists. But Kitcher points out that it is also important to recognize the cost of Darwin's success--the price of "life with Darwin." Darwinism has a profound effect on our understanding of our place in the universe, on our religious beliefs and aspirations. It is in truth the focal point of a larger clash between religious faith and modern science. Unless we can resolve this larger issue, the war over evolution will go on.
Darwinism and Design; Or, Creation by Evolution
Title | Darwinism and Design; Or, Creation by Evolution PDF eBook |
Author | George St. Clair |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1873 |
Genre | Evolution |
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Doubts about Darwin
Title | Doubts about Darwin PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Woodward |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Religion |
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An insider's look at the dramatic debate between Darwinism and Intelligent Design, showing how and why the secular "religion" of our time is beginning to crumble.
Why Darwin Matters
Title | Why Darwin Matters PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Shermer |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2007-04-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1429900903 |
A creationist-turned-scientist demonstrates the facts of evolution and exposes Intelligent Design's real agenda Science is on the defensive. Half of Americans reject the theory of evolution and "Intelligent Design" campaigns are gaining ground. Classroom by classroom, creationism is overthrowing biology. In Why Darwin Matters, bestselling author Michael Shermer explains how the newest brand of creationism appeals to our predisposition to look for a designer behind life's complexity. Shermer decodes the scientific evidence to show that evolution is not "just a theory" and illustrates how it achieves the design of life through the bottom-up process of natural selection. Shermer, once an evangelical Christian and a creationist, argues that Intelligent Design proponents are invoking a combination of bad science, political antipathy, and flawed theology. He refutes their pseudoscientific arguments and then demonstrates why conservatives and people of faith can and should embrace evolution. He then appraises the evolutionary questions that truly need to be settled, building a powerful argument for science itself. Cutting the politics away from the facts, Why Darwin Matters is an incisive examination of what is at stake in the debate over evolution.