The design revolution : answering the toughest questions about intelligent design / William A. Dembski.
"As the intelligent design movement has gained momentum, questions have naturally arisen to challenge its provocative claims. In this book William Dembski rises to the occasion - clearly and concisely answering the most vexing questions posed to the intelligent design program. Writing with none...
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Basic distinctions. Intelligent design
- Creation
- Scientific creationism
- Disguised theology
- Religious motivation
- Optimal design
- The design argument
- pt. 2. Detecting design. The design inference
- Chance and necessity
- Specified complexity
- The explanatory filter
- Reliability of the criterion
- Objectivity and subjectivity
- Assertibility
- The chance of the gaps
- pt. 3. Information and matter
- Information theory
- Biology's information problem
- Information ex Nihilo
- Nature's receptivity
- The law of conservation of information
- pt. 4. Issues arising from naturalism. Varieties of naturalism
- Interventionism
- Miracles and counterfactual substitution
- The supernatural
- Embodies and unembodied designers
- The designer regress
- Selective skepticism
- The progress of science.
- pt. 5. Theoretical challenges to intelligent design. Argument from ignorance
- Eliminative induction
- Hume, Reid and signs of intelligence
- Design by elimination versus design by comparison
- The demand for details : Darwinism's Tu quoque
- Displacement and the no free lunch principle
- The only games in town
- pt. 6. A new kind of science. Aspirations
- Mechanism
- Testability
- The significance of Michael Behe
- Peer review
- The "wedge"
- Research times
- Making intelligent design a disciplined science.