Benjamin C. Jantzen, An Introduction to Design Arguments

Authors

  • Glenn Branch National Center for Science Education

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.32767

Keywords:

design arguments, creationism, intelligent design, natural theology, fine-tuning, teleology

Abstract

Benjamin C. Jantzen, An Introduction to Design Arguments (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 347pp., $29.95 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-52-118303-1.

Author Biography

  • Glenn Branch, National Center for Science Education
    Glenn Branch is Deputy Director of NCSE. Formerly a graduate student in philosophy at UCLA, where he won prizes both for scholarship and teaching, he is conversant with the philosophical debates surrounding creationism and "intelligent design"; he is also a long-time student of pseudoscience. Branch is co-editor, with Eugenie C. Scott, of Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools, and the author or coauthor of numerous articles on climate education and evolution education, and obstacles to them, in such publications as Scientific American, The American Biology Teacher, and Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics.

References

Feser, Edward. 2013. ‘Between Aristotle and William Paley: Aquinas’s Fifth Way’, Nova et Vetera 11.3: 707-49.

Henderson, Lawrence. 1913. The Fitness of the Environment (New York: Macmillan).

Hicks, Lewis Ezra. 1883. A Critique of Design-Arguments (New York: Scribner’s Sons).

Sedley, David. 2008. Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity (Berkeley: University of California Press).

Shermer, Michael. 2003. How We Believe (New York: Henry Holt).

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Published

2018-10-02

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2018)

Section

Book Reviews

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How to Cite

Branch, G. (2018). Benjamin C. Jantzen, An Introduction to Design Arguments. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 12(2), 232-235. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.32767