Title: Lunch at the Soup Kitchen
Product review: This book was read as part of a university seminar seeking to understand the "science" behind the Intelligent Design movement. This book was the first broadly published accounting of William Dembski's ideas on Complex Specified Information and his "Law of Conservation of Information." After reading and several hours of discussion by seminar members, we agreed that the book was written in a style meant to impress readers with jargon rather than lead them through a consistent and logical argument for Intelligent Design. Even apart from the numerous unanswered published criticisms of Dembski's hypotheses, all seminar members found serious inconsistencies and transparencies of his arguments. His ideas boil down to Paley's original "gee whiz, life is too complicated to have arisen by natural mechanisms."This book ought to be read so its weak arguments can be dissected and not be accepted in any consideration of Intelligent Design.
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