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035 _a(OCoLC)1164531112
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050 0 4 _aBV3
100 1 _aHorwitz, Noah,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aDivine Name Verification: An Essay on Anti-Darwinism, Intelligent Design, and the Computational Nature of Reality
_cNoah Horwitz.
264 1 _bPunctum Books,
264 3 _bProject MUSE,
300 _a1 online resource (1 online resource 424 pages)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 409-413).
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
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520 _a"In this book, Noah Horwitz argues that the age of Darwinism is ending. Building on the ontological insights of his first book Reality in the Name of God in order to intervene into the intelligent design versus evolution debate, Horwitz argues in favor of intelligent design by attempting to demonstrate the essentially computational nature of reality. In doing so, Horwitz draws on the work of many of today's key computational theorists (e.g., Wolfram, Chaitin, Friedkin, Lloyd, Schmidhuber, etc.) and articulates and defends a computational definition of life, and in the process lays out key criticisms of Darwinism. He does so in part by incorporating the insights of the Lamarckian theories of Lynn Margulis and Maximo Sandin. The possible criticisms of a computationalist view from both a developmental perspective (e.g., Lewontin, Jablonka, West-Eberhard, etc.) and chaos theory (e.g., Brian Goodwin) are addressed. In doing so, Horwitz engages critically with the work of intelligent design theorists like William Dembksi. At the same time, he attempts to define the nature of the Speculative Realist turn in contemporary Continental Philosophy and articulates criticisms of leading figures and movements associated with it, such as Object-Oriented Ontology, Quentin Meillassoux, and Ray Brassier. Ultimately, Horwitz attempts to show that rather than heading towards heat death, existence itself will find its own apotheosis at the Omega Point. However, that final glorification is only possible given that all of reality is compressible into the divine name itself"--https://punctumbooks.com/titles/divine-name-verification/, accessed 06/04/2020.
540 _aCreative Commons NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Unported
_fCC BY-NC-SA 4.0
_uhttp://www.oapen.org/download/?type=document&docid=1004521
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aTheology, Practical.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/76445/
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