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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Main Author: Recker, Doren (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
In: 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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