How to Confuse Organisms with Mousetraps: Machine Metaphors and Intelligent Design
Abstract. Why do design arguments—particularly those emphasizing machine metaphors such as “Organisms and/or their parts are machines”—continue to be so convincing to so many people after they have been repeatedly refuted? In this essay I review various interpretations and refutations of design argu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2010
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Zygon
Year: 2010, Volume: 45, Issue: 3, Pages: 647-664 |
| Further subjects: | B
cognitive status of metaphors
B Intelligent design B Developmental Psychology B design arguments B agency and teleological bias B machine metaphors B dual process reasoning B Cognitive Psychology |
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