Darwin and Design Does Evolution Have a Purpose?

Name: Darwin and Design Does Evolution Have a Purpose?
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ISBN: 9780674016316

ISBN-10: 0674016319

ISBN-13: 9780674016316

Edition: 2003

Authors: Robert J. Richards, Michael Ruse

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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? The definitive work on these contentious questions, Darwin and Design surveys the argument from design from its introduction by the Greeks, through the coming of Darwinism, down to the present day. In clear, non-technical language Michael Ruse, a well-known authority…

Book details

List price: $25.50
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Michael Ruse is Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science, Florida State University. He is the founder and editor of the journal Biology and Philosophy, and has appeared on ldquo;Quirks and Quarksrdquo; and the Discovery Channel.



Preface


Introduction



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


Sources and Suggested Reading


Illustration Credits


Acknowledgments


Index