A book (actually only a manuscript of 120 pages) by J. P. Keener (Available for publication, inquiries invited)
Outline
Introduction
1. If Darwinism is the answer, what was the question?
(A statement of the ground rules for the discussion, and some important definitions)
2. Impossible Things Usually Don't Happen
(An introduction to the uses and abuses of probability
theory)
3. Getting Started
(The mathematical challenges of the origin of life)
4. You Can't get There from Here
(Computational complexity and the computational limitations of Darwin's algorithm)
5. Darwin was not an Engineer
(Some of the engineering wonders of the biological world)
6. The Successes of Darwin's Computer
(Some of the things the Darwinian algorithm does quite well.)
7. Inverse Problems
(Recognizing the study of life's history as an ill-posed inverse
problem)
8. Pardon me, but your slip is showing
(Examples of logical errors in the current Darwinian debate)
9. Paradigms
(A proposal for a modified paradigm that gives better agreement with biological data)
10. This chapter is on Purpose
(A discussion of purpose and design; Do mathematical arguments
shed any light?)
Postlude
Notes