Natural Selection and Design: Comments on Michael Ruse's New Book |
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Authors: | Ward H. Goodenough |
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Affiliation: | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
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Abstract: | Is the adaptive complexity of living organisms the result of evolutionary processes alone? or does it give evidence of intentional design? Michael Ruse appears to argue that we can have it either way. As a scientist I find the argument from design unnecessary. Yet it has great appeal to humans, whose behavior is largely intentional and who look for patterns in events and for the intentions that may have produced them. |
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Keywords: | design evolution intention |
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