Title: Profound in its implications
Product review: William Dembski's newest book, No Free Lunch, helps complete the job he started in his 1998 book, The Design Inference (Cambridge University Press). The Design Inference laid out Dembski's rigorous formal apparatus for determining whether an event or an object is the result of chance, natural law/necessity, or intelligent design. What he didn't do in that book is apply the theory to the natural world. In No Free Lunch, he does so. Not only does he tweak and strengthen his earlier theory, but he applies it to biology, and offers a devastating critique of various self-organizational theories, which recognize that Darwin's theory is inadequate, but hope to get information for free. Dembski argues convincingly that you can't. Although No Free Lunch does have some fairly technical sections, for the most part it is accessible to the educated non-specialist. Besides, it's worth the effort.
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