No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence

No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence

Hardback (18 Dec 2001)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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. In this book Dembski extends his theory of intelligent design. Building on his earlier work in The Design Inference (Cambridge, 1998), he defends that life must be the product of intelligent design. Critics of Dembski's work have argued that evolutionary algorithms show that life can be explained apart from intelligence. But by employing powerful recent results from the No Free Lunch Theory, Dembski addresses and decisively refutes such claims. 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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780742512979
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub date:
DEWEY: 576.801
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 403
Weight: 810g
Height: 235mm
Width: 163mm
Spine width: 32mm