The Semantic Structure Of Evolutionary Biology As An Argument Against Intelligent Design

Zygon

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 26-46

  Lancaster, James A T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alex Rosenburg; Bas Van Fraassen; Imre Lakatos; Intelligent Design; Mary Williams; Michael Behe; Michael Ruse; Paul Thompson; Richard Dawkins; Semantic structure; Syntactic structure; Theory of evolution; William Dembski

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951870945     PISSN: 05912385     EISSN: 14679744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01156.x     Document Type: Article

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