What is wrong with intelligent design?

Quarterly Review of Biology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-8

  Sober, Elliott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Creationism; Falsifiability; Intelligent design; Karl Popper; Pierre Duhem; Ronald Fisher; Testability

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RELIGION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RELIGION;

EID: 33847218255     PISSN: 00335770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/511656     Document Type: Review

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