Darwin and design : does evolution have a purpose? /
This history and exposition of Western thought about design in the natural world suggests directions for our thinking as we move into the 21st century. It contributes to the debate about the relationship between science and religion, and between evolution and its religious critics.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2003.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Two thousand years of design
- Paley and Kant fight back
- Sowing the seeds of evolution
- A plurality of problems
- Charles Darwin
- A subject too profound
- Darwinian against Darwinian
- The century of evolutionism
- Adaptation in action
- Theory and test
- Formalism redux
- From function to design
- Design as metaphor
- Natural theology evolves
- Turning back the clock.