William A. Dembski

No Free Lunch

Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. 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. The paperback is updated with a new Preface by the author.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 850g
• ISBN-13: 9780742512979
• ISBN-10: 0742512975
• Artikelnr.: 21015414

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 List of Illustrations Part 2 Preface Part 3 The Third Mode of
Explanation Chapter 4 Necessity, Chance, and Design Chapter 5
Rehabilitating Design Chapter 6 The Complexity-Specification Criterion
Chapter 7 Specification Chapter 8 Probabilistic Resources Chapter 9 False
Negatives and False Positives Chapter 10 Why the Criterion Works Chapter 11
The Darwinian Challenge to Design Chapter 12 The Constraning of Contingency
Chapter 13 The Darwinian Extrapolation Part 14 Another Way to Detect
Design? Chapter 15 Fisher's Approach to Eliminating Chance Chapter 16
Generalizing Fisher's Approach Chapter 17 Case Study: Nicholas Caputo
Chapter 18 Case Study: The Comprehensibility of Bit Strings Chapter 19
Detachability Chapter 20 Sweeping the Field of Chance Hypotheses Chapter 21
Justifying the Generalization Chapter 22 The Inflation of Probabilistic
Resources Chapter 23 Design by Comparison Chapter 24 Design by Elimination
Part 25 Specified Complexity as Information Chapter 26 Information Chapter
27 Syntactic, Statistical, and Algorithmic Information Chapter 28
Information in Context Chapter 29 Conceptual and Physical Information
Chapter 30 Complex Specified Information Chapter 31 Semantic Information
Chapter 32 Biological Information Chapter 33 The Origin of Comlex Specified
Information Chapter 34 The Law of Conservation of Information Chapter 35 A
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics? Part 36 Evolutionary Algorithms Chapter 37
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL Chapter 38 Optimization Chapter 39 Statement
of the Problem Chapter 40 Choosing the Right Fitness Function Chapter 41
Blind Search Chapter 42 The No Free Lunch Theorems Chapter 43 The
Displacement Problem Chapter 44 Darwinian Evolution in Nature Chapter 45
Following the Information Trail Chapter 46 Coevolving Fitness Landscapes
Part 47 The Emergence of Irreducibly Complex Systems Chapter 48 The Casual
Specificity Problem Chapter 49 The Challenge of Irreducible Complexity
Chapter 50 Scaffolding and Roman Arches Chapter 51 Co-optation, Patchwork,
and Bricolage Chapter 52 Incremental Indispensability Chapter 53 Reducible
Complexity Chapter 54 Miscellaneous Objections Chapter 55 The Logic of
Invariants Chapter 56 Fine-Tuning Irreducible Complexity Chapter 57 Doing
the Calculation Part 58 Design as a Scientific Research Program Chapter 59
Outline of a Positive Research Program Chapter 60 The Pattern of Evolution
Chapter 61 The Incompleteness of Natural Laws Chapter 62 Does Specified
Complexity Have a Mechanism? Chapter 63 The Nature of Nature Chapter 64
Must All Design in Nature Be Front-Loaded? Chapter 65 Embodied and
Unembodied Designers Chapter 66 Who Designed the Designer? Chapter 67
Testability Chapter 68 Magic, Mechanism, and Design Part 69 Index