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"What Darwin Got Wrong" - coming in February

This is not a book about God, or about intelligent design. Rather, here is a remarkable book, one that dares to challenge natural selection - not in the name of religion but in the name of good science. Most scientists are so terrified of religious attacks on the theory of evolution that it is never examined critically.

But there are major scientific and philosophical problems with the theory of natural selection. Darwin claimed the factors that determine the course of evolution are very largely environmental. This is a thesis that empirical results in biology are increasingly calling into question. The authors show that Darwinism is committed to inferring, from the premise that a kind of creature with a certain trait was selected, the conclusion that that kind of creature was selected for having that trait. Though such inferences are fallacious, they are nevertheless unavoidable within the Darwinist framework. Ultimately, Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini level a devastating critique against Darwinist orthodoxy and suggest new ways of thinking about evolution.

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Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design

The book, God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design by Bradley Monton has been out for five months and has not gone unnoticed by the ID community. In fact, Dr. Monton, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado-Boulder, is a contributor to ARN. Monton argues that ID is legitimate as a scientific endeavor, although he is unconvinced, at this time, that an intelligent designer exists. It is refreshing to meet up with a clear-thinking, intellectually honest atheist.

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Monton's thinking is blogged in Proslogian by Dr. Jay L. Wile, Nuclear Chemist at the University of Rochester.

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    Australian biologist Stephen E. Jones maintains one of the best origins "quote" databases around. He is meticulous about accuracy and working from original sources.

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    Most guys going through midlife crisis buy a convertible. Austrialian Stephen E. Jones went back to college to get a biology degree and is now a proponent of ID and common ancestry.

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    Complete zipped downloadable pdf copy of David Stove's devastating, and yet hard-to-find, critique of neo-Darwinism entitled "Darwinian Fairytales"

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    Intelligent Design The Future is a multiple contributor weblog whose participants include the nation's leading design scientists and theorists: biochemist Michael Behe, mathematician William Dembski, astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez, philosophers of science Stephen Meyer, and Jay Richards, philosopher of biology Paul Nelson, molecular biologist Jonathan Wells, and science writer Jonathan Witt. Posts will focus primarily on the intellectual issues at stake in the debate over intelligent design, rather than its implications for education or public policy.

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    A Philosopher's Journey: Political and cultural reflections of John Mark N. Reynolds. Dr. Reynolds is Director of the Torrey Honors Institute at
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