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Intelligent Design is a pivotal, synthesizing work from a thinker whom Phillip Johnson calls "one of the most important of the design theorists who are sparking a scientific revolution by legitimating the concept of intelligent design in science."
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Voted a Book of the Year by Christianity Today
The Intelligent Design movement is three things:
a scientific research program for investigating intelligent causes
an intellectual movement that challenges naturalistic evolutionary theories
a way of understanding divine action
Although the fast-growing movement has gained considerable grassroots support, many scientists and theologians remain skeptical about its merits. Scientists worry that it's bad science (merely creationism in disguise) and theologians worry that it's bad theology (misunderstanding divine action). In this book William Dembski addresses these concerns and brilliantly argues that intelligent design provides a crucial link between science and theology.
Various chapters creatively and powerfully address intelligent discernment of divine action in nature, why the significane of miracles should be reconsidered, and the demise and unanswered questions of British natural theology. Effectively challenging the hegemony of naturalism and reinstating design within science, Dembski shows how intelligent design can be unpacked as a theory of information.
Intelligent Design is a pivotal, synthesizing work from a thinker whom Phillip Johnson calls "one of the most important of the design theorists who are sparking a scientific revolution by legitimating the concept of intelligent design in science."
Contents
Foreword by Michael Behe
Preface
Part 1: Historical Beginnings
1. Recognizing the Divine Finger
1.1 Homer Simpson's Prayer
1.2 Signs in Decision-Making
1.3 Ordinary Versus Extraordinary Signs
1.4 Moses and Pharoah
1.5 The Philistines and the Ark
1.6 The Sign of the Resurrection
1.7 In Defense of Premodernity
2. The Critique of Miracles
2.1 Miracles as Evidence for Faith
2.2 Spinoza's Rejection of Miracles
2.3 Schleiermacher's Assimilation of Spinoza
2.4 Unpacking Schleiermacher's Naturalistic Critique
2.5 Critiquing the Naturalistic Critique
2.6 The Significane of the Naturalistic Critique
3. The Demise of British Natural Theology
3.1 Pauli's Sneer
3.2 From Contrivance to Natural Law
3.3 From Natural Law to Agnosticism
3.4 Darwin and His Theory
3.5 Design and Miracles
3.6 The Presupposition of Positivism
Part 2: A Theory of Design
4. Naturalism Its Cure
4.1 Nature and Creation
4.2 The Root of Idolatry
4.3 Naturalism Within Western Culture
4.4 The Cure: Intelligent Design
4.5 Not Theistic Evolution
4.6 The Importance of Definitions
4.7 A New Generation of Scholars
5. Reinstating Design Within Science
5.1 Design's Departure from Science
5.2 Why Reinstate Design?
5.3 The Complexity-Specification Criterion
5.4 Specification
5.5 False Negatives and False Positives
5.6 Why the Criterion Works
5.7 Irreducible Complexity
5.8 So What?
6. Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information
6.1 Complex Specified Information
6.2 Generating Information via Law
6.3 Generating Information via Chance
6.4 Generating Information via Law and Chance
6.5 The Law of Conservation of Information
6.6 Applying the Theory to Evolutionary Biology
6.7 Reconceptualizing Evolutionary Biology
Part 3: Bridging Science Theology
7. Science Theology in Mutual Support
7.1 Two Windows on Reality
7.2 Epistemic Support
7.3 Rational Compulsion
7.4 Explanatory Power
7.5 The Big Bang and Divine Creation
7.6 Christ as the Completion of Science
8. The Act of Creation
8.1 Creation as a Divine Gift
8.2 Naturalism's Challenge to Creation
8.3 Computational Reductionism
8.4 Our Empirical Selves Versus Our Actual Selves
8.5 The Resurgence of Design
8.6 The Creation of the World
8.7 The Intelligibility of the World
8.8 Creativity, Divine and Human
Appendix: Objections to Design
A.1 The God of the Gaps
A.2 Intentionality Versus Design
A.3 Scientific Creationism
A.4 But Is It Science?
A.5 Dysteleology
A.6 Just an Anthropic Coincidence
A.7 Applying the Math to Biology
A.8 David Hume's Objections
A.9 Mundane Versus Trancendant Designers
Notes
Index
