Evidence and Evolution

Elliot Sober has a new book coming out this year, Evidence and Evolution; The Logic Behind the Science. The book is divided into four sections: The Concept of Evidence, Intelligent Design, Natural Selection, and Common Ancestry. Below are the contents of the section on ID:

1. Darwin and intelligent design
Design arguments and the birth of probability theory
William Paley: The stone, the watch, and the eye
From probabilities to likelihoods
Epicureanism and Darwin’s theory
Three reactions to Paley’s design argument
The no-designer-worth-his-salt objection to the hypothesis of intelligent design
Popper’s criterion of falsifiability
Sharpening the likelihood argument
The principle of total evidence
Some strengths of the likelihood formulation of the design argument
The Achilles heel of the likelihood argument
Paley’s stone
Testability
The relationship of the organismic design argument to Darwinism
The relationship of Paley’s design argument to contemporary intelligent-design theory
The relationship of the design argument to the argument from evil
The design argument as an inductive sampling argument
Model selection and intelligent design
The politics and legal status of the intelligent-design hypothesis
Darwinism, theism, and religion
A prediction

Looks like eighty pages of fun that will have the hacks over at the Discovery Institute foaming at the mouth and stamping their little feet. It’s available for pre-order over at Amazon.