The Not-So-Intelligent Designer
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The Not-So-Intelligent Designer

Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not

  1. 244 pages
  2. English
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The Not-So-Intelligent Designer

Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not

About this book

Why do men's testicles hang outside the body? Why does our appendix sometimes explode and kill us? And who does the Designer like better, anyway--us or squid? These and other questions are addressed in The Not-So-Intelligent Designer: Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not.Dr. Abby Hafer argues that the human body has many faulty design features that would never have been the choice of an intelligent creator.She also points out that there are other animals that got better body parts, which makes the Designer look a bit strange; discusses the history and politics of Intelligent Design and creationism; reveals animals that shouldn't exist according to Intelligent Design; and disposes of the idea of irreducible complexity.Her points are illustrated with pictures, wit, and erudition.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Chapter 1: Introduction, or, Why Testicles Matter
  4. Chapter 2: Bad Design—Men’s Testicles
  5. Chapter 3: What Is Intelligent Design, and What Does It Have to Do With Men’s Testicles?
  6. Chapter 4: Testicles, Part II
  7. Chapter 5: Why Evolution Explains the Human Body Better than Intelligent Design Does
  8. Chapter 6: Intelligent Design According to Its Believers: Is Intelligent Design the Same as Creationism, and Is Intelligent Design Religion?
  9. Chapter 7: The Infamous Wedge Strategy
  10. Chapter 8: Why Denying Evolution Can Get You into Trouble and Cause Mass Hunger, Too
  11. Chapter 9: What Science Is
  12. Chapter 10: Why Accepting Science and Evolution Can Lead to Better Values for All Humankind
  13. Chapter 11: Bad Design—the Birth Canal
  14. Chapter 12: The Handy-Dandy Intelligent Design Refuter, Part 1
  15. Chapter 13: Intelligent Design Requires a Leap of Faith
  16. Chapter 14: Animals That Shouldn’t Exist According to Intelligent Design
  17. Chapter 15: Bad Design—the Human Throat
  18. Chapter 16: The Handy-Dandy Intelligent Design Refuter, Part 2
  19. Chapter 17: Irreducible Complexity, the Design Inference, and Geological Formations
  20. Chapter 18: Irreducible Complexity and Blood Clotting
  21. Chapter 19: Bad Design—the Human Blood Clotting System: It Led to the Communist Russian Revolution
  22. Chapter 20: Irreducible Complexity, Flagella, and Cilia
  23. Chapter 21: Irreducible Complexity and the Human Eye
  24. Chapter 22: Bad Design—the Human Eye
  25. Chapter 23: Why Denying Science is Bad for You, and Bad for Your Neighbors, Too
  26. Chapter 24: Why Reward in Heaven Makes No Difference to Human Behavior, but Good Institutions Do
  27. Chapter 25: Bad Design—Our Biochemical Pathways: If Cats Don’t Die of Scurvy, Then Why Do We?
  28. Chapter 26: Why Does Intelligent Design Act so Much Like the Tobacco Lobby?
  29. Chapter 27: Bad Design—Our Teeth, or, Why Is This Animal Smiling?
  30. Chapter 28: The Discovery Institute Hasn’t Discovered Anything (Sort of Like the Tobacco Institute)
  31. Chapter 29: The Publishing Scandal that Rocked the Discovery Institute
  32. Chapter 30: Bad Design—Sharks Get More Reproductive Options, Too
  33. Chapter 31: Exploding the Cambrian Explosion
  34. Chapter 32: Why William Dembski’s “Information Theory” Isn’t Very Informative
  35. Chapter 33: Bad Design—the Human Genome
  36. Chapter 34: Bad Design—the Human Appendix
  37. Chapter 35: Evolution: The Greatest Indisputably True Story Ever Told
  38. Appendix 1: The Phylogeny of Mammalian Testicles
  39. Appendix 2: The American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Statement on Intelligent Design
  40. Appendix 3: The Life Cycle of the Immortal Jellyfish
  41. Appendix 4: Credits and Notes for Illustrations and Photographs