Īdah-yi khaṭarnāk-i Dārvīn: Persian 1401

Darwin's Dangerous Idea is a 1995 book written by philosopher Daniel Dent in which the author looks at some of the implications of Darwin's theory. The gist of the argument is that, whether Darwin's theories are disproved or not, there is no turning back from the dangerous idea that design (a purpose or something for that matter) might not need a designer. Dent makes this case on the basis that natural selection is a blind process, which is nonetheless powerful enough to explain the evolution of life. Darwin's discovery was that the generation of life worked algorithmically, that the processes behind it worked in such a way that, given these processes, the results they tend towards must be so. For example, Dent says that many of his leading contemporaries claim that miracles can occur by claiming that minds cannot be reduced to purely algorithmic processes. These statements have created many discussions among the public. It was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award in Nonfiction and the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Remo of the Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet," focuses his logically flawed mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how Darwin's big idea changed our traditional view of humanity's place in a changing world. And it turns on. Dent clearly describes the theory itself and then extrapolates Darwin's views with impeccable reasoning to their often surprising results, challenging the views of some of the most famous scientists of our time.