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Darwin and Design : Does Evolution Have a Purpose?.
The intricate forms of living things bespeak design, and thus a creator: nearly 150 years after Darwin's theory of natural selection called this argument into question, we still speak of life in terms of design--the function of the eye, the purpose of the webbed foot, the design of the fins. Wh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Harvard University Press,
June 2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Introduction; 1. Two Thousand Years of Design; 2. Paley and Kant Fight Back; 3. Sowing the Seeds of Evolution; 4. A Plurality of Problems; 5. Charles Darwin; 6. A Subject Too Profound; 7. Darwinian against Darwinian; 8. The Century of Evolutionism; 9. Adaptation in Action; 10. Theory and Test; 11. Formalism Redux; 12. From Function to Design; 13. Design as Metaphor; 14. Natural Theology Evolves; 15. Turning Back the Clock; Sources and Suggested Reading; Illustration Credits; Acknowledgments; Index.