Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?Harvard University Press, 2003 - 371 páginas 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. Why is the "argument from design" so tenacious, and does Darwinism--itself still evolving after all these years--necessarily undo it? |
Contenido
Preface | |
Introduction | 1 |
Two Thousand Years of Design | 9 |
Paley and Kant Fight Back | 31 |
Sowing the Seeds of Evolution | 51 |
A Plurality of Problems | 69 |
Charles Darwin | 89 |
A Subject Too Profound | 107 |
Theory and Test | 195 |
Formalism Redux | 223 |
From Function to Design | 249 |
Design as Metaphor | 271 |
Natural Theology Evolves | 291 |
Turning Back the Clock | 313 |
Sources and Suggested Reading | 339 |
Illustration Credits | 358 |
Darwinian against Darwinian | 129 |
The Century of Evolutionism | 151 |
Adaptation in Action | 171 |
Acknowledgments | 359 |
361 | |
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