Reaction to new book: Unintelligent Design

Has anyone read or at least perused this new book by Mark Perakh called
Unintelligent Design?

Here is the description (from the inside book cover) from Amazon.com:
                                                                            
 Spurred on not only by the quasi-scientific agenda of the so-called
 intelligent design theorists, who seek to prove the existence of God
 mathematically, but also by his personal contact with otherwise rational
 scientists, physicist Mark Perakh sets out to reveal the falsity of the
 claims of neocreationism with a thorough, carefully detailed series of
 arguments aimed at the very heart of those who would see evolutionary
 theory discarded. Perakh strips away the reader-unfriendly "mathematizing"
 present in the neocreationist theses in order to reveal their flawed logic
 and their meaninglessness.
                                                                            
                                                                            
 His work is divided into three parts: first, an attack on the specifics of
 intelligent design, a theory spearheaded by the writings of William
 Dembski (THE DESIGN INFERENCE, INTELLIGENT DESIGN, NO FREE LUNCH), Michael
 Behe (DARWIN'S BLACK BOX), and Phillip Johnson (DARWIN ON TRIAL, THE WEDGE
 OF TRUTH, DEFEATING DARWINISM BY OPENING MINDS); second, a critical
 dismantling of several arguments closely related to the intelligent design
 movement, such as attempts to "harmonize" the Bible with modern scientific
 understanding of the universe, the anthropic principle, and nonrandom
 evolution; and finally, a discussion of proper scientific method and
 probability theory, as well as an infamous account of science gone bad for
 the sake of religion--the Bible code theory propagated by Doron Witztum,
 Eliyahu Rips, and Yoav Rosenberg.
                                                                            
                                                                            
 This thoughtful and incisive critique from a veteran scientist genuinely
 concerned about the integrity of the scientific enterprise wastes no
 diplomacy on those who would see its purpose twisted to ideological ends.
 Perakh successfully ties his opponents' arguments together by
 demonstrating how most of them are based on the same mistaken view of
 probability theory and the same disregard for impartial objectivity in
 testing hypotheses. This is a must-read for anyone interested in
 separating scientific facts from religion masquerading as science.
                                                                            
 About the Author
 Mark Perakh is professor emeritus of physics at California State
 University, Fullerton. A native of the Soviet Union, he taught and
 conducted research in Israel, Germany, and England before coming to the
 United States. Perakh has published four books and nearly three hundred
 scientific articles, and has received a number of prizes for his work,
 including one from the Royal Society of London.
                                                                            
Received on Tue Feb 3 12:30:32 2004