Title: Little of substance
Product review: As one already familiar with current intelligent design (ID) theorizing I found this book unsatisfactory for several reasons: 1, Ratzsch continually attempts to make the highly problematic analogy between living things and manufactured objects. 2, He continually oscillates between arguing that design could have been inserted in the initial conditions of the big bang or could have been inserted supernaturally throughout history, two very different propositions by any standard. 3, For him the history of science began with the theistic approach of Newton rather than, as should be recognized, with the explicit rejection of supernaturalism by the Greeks. He continually lauds Newton's theism without noting that it was just those theistic parts of Newton's work that were the most unsuccessful. 4, Like so many ID advocates he completely avoids discussing extinction, the necessary other side of any design argument. Overall a very unconvincing read.
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