Inside the Human Genome
A Case for Non-Intelligent Design
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 25 February 2010
- ISBN 9780195393439
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 145x211x25 mm
- Weight 445 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 14 black and white line illustrations 0
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Short description:
This panoramic yet penetrating scientific view into the many imperfections of the human genome offers compelling counter-evidence to intelligent design. Why do flaws exist in a world engineered by God? The author extends this age-old question to the most basic aspects of humanity's physical existence, and provides the evolutionary answers.
MoreLong description:
Humanity's physical design flaws have long been apparent--we get hemorrhoids and impacted wisdom teeth, for instance--but do the imperfections extend down to the level of our genes? Inside the Human Genome is the first book to examine the philosophical question of why, from the perspectives of biochemistry and molecular genetics, flaws exist in the biological world. Distinguished evolutionary geneticist John Avise offers a panoramic yet penetrating exploration of the many gross deficiencies in human DNA-ranging from mutational defects to built-in design faults--while at the same time offering a comprehensive treatment of recent findings about the human genome. The author shows that the overwhelming scientific evidence for genomic imperfection provides a compelling counterargument to intelligent design. He also develops a case that theologians should welcome rather than disavow these discoveries. The evolutionary sciences can help mainstream religions escape the shackles of Intelligent Design, and thereby return religion to its rightful realm--not as the secular interpreter of the biological minutiae of our physical existence, but rather as a respectable philosophical counselor on grander matters of ultimate concern.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface
The Eternal Paradox
Fallible Design: Protein-Coding DNA Sequences
Baroque Design: Gratuitous Genomic Complexity
Wasteful Design: Repetitive DNA Elements
Intelligent or Non-Intelligent Design?
Epilogue
