Darwin and Design : : Does Evolution Have a Purpose? / / Michael Ruse.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Ruse, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

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. Wh...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Two Thousand Years of Design
• 2 Paley and Kant Fight Back
• 3 Sowing the Seeds of Evolution
• 4 A Plurality of Problems
• 5 Charles Darwin
• 6 A Subject Too Profound
• 7 Darwinian against Darwinian
• 8 The Century of Evolutionism
• 9 Adaptation in Action
• 10 Theory and Test
• 11 Formalism Redux
• 12 From Function to Design
• 13 Design as Metaphor
• 14 Natural Theology Evolves
• 15 Turning Back the Clock
• Sources and Suggested Reading
• Illustration Credits
• Acknowledgments
• Index