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Preface: Creation vs. Evolution: The Modern Debate | |
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The Deistic Roots of Modern Darwinism | |
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A Theological Defense of Deism | |
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Deism and Natural Theology | |
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Natural Theology and the Validity of Objective Reasoning | |
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A New Level of Debate | |
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Spontaneous Generation | |
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The Implausibility of Non-Theistic Biogenesis | |
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The "Chicken and Egg" Paradox | |
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Why Natural Selection Cannot Account for the Origin of Life | |
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The Inherent Limitations of Trial and Error Problem-Solving | |
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Was There Enough Time for Life to Form? | |
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Life from Life | |
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Self-Organization and Biogenesis | |
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Positivistic Science and the God of Deism | |
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Antichaos and the Origin of Species | |
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The Second Law of Thermodynamics | |
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Mutations | |
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Three Types of "Mutations" | |
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The Drosophilia Connection | |
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The Limits of Artificial Breeding | |
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Coordinated Mutations | |
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Schrodinger and the Quantum Nature of Mutational Change | |
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Microevolution vs. Macroevolution | |
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Is Chance the Creator of Us All? | |
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Information Theory | |
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Genetic Information and the Role of Change | |
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A Call for Reconciliation | |
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Species and Speciation | |
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The Discontinuity of Nature | |
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Typology and Essentialism | |
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The Possibility of Intermediate Forms on the Way to the Avian Lung | |
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An Explanation for the Interrelatedness of Nature | |
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God Used Adaptive Radiation to Create Closely-Related Species | |
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Vestigial Organs | |
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Marine Mammals and the Problem of Adaptation | |
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A Possible Mechanism for Species Transmutation | |
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Natural Selection | |
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The Reality of Natural Selection | |
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Altruism in the Natural World | |
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Natural Selection and the Diversification of Species | |
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Natural Selection and Random Variations of Form | |
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Can Natural Selection Create Coherent Adaptations Out of Random Variations? | |
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Popular Examples of Evolution in Action | |
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Natural Selection Unable to Account for Explosive Radiations | |
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Natural Selection Cannot Account for the Rise of Man | |
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Hyper-Selectionism and the Human Voice | |
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Natural Selection as a Tautology | |
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A Failure to Evolve | |
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Punctuated Equilibria | |
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Natural Selection and Behavior | |
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The Origin of Adaptations | |
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Natural Selection and the Mathusian Principle of Competition for Limited Resources | |
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The Relationship Between Explanatory Closure and Biological Complexity | |
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The Fallacy of Using Natural Selection as a Causal Explanation for Life's Origin | |
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Historical Antecedents | |
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The Nature and Origin of the Selective Process | |
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Could Natural Selection Have Formed the Eye? | |
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God and the Nature of Perfection | |
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The Irish Elk | |
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The Nature of Perfection | |
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Could God Have Done Better? | |
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More on the True Nature of Perfection | |
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The Democracy of Extinction | |
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On the Compatibility Between the Natural and the Supernatural | |
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The Fossil Record | |
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The Nature of the Paleontological Evidence | |
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Punctuated Equilibria and the Cambrian Explosion | |
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Transformed Cladism | |
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Homologous Resemblances | |
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Convergent Evolution | |
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Weak Orthogenesis as a Compromise Position | |
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Weak Orthogenesis, Opportunism, and Lamarckism | |
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Orthogenesis and Opportunism | |
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Why Lamarckism Has Been So Appealing Over the Years | |
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Weak Orthogenesis and Lamarckism | |
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Two Types of "Acquired Characters" | |
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Preadaptation vs. Postadaptation and the Return to Lamarckism: An Experimental Verdict | |
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Genomic Stress and Extinction | |
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Protein Synthesis and Evolution | |
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Evolution and the New Genetics | |
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Homeotic Genes: A Model of Centralized Holistic Developmental Regulation | |
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"Junk" DNA | |
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The Orthogenetic Content of the Genome | |
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A Possible Relationship Between Introns and Homeotic Genes | |
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Polyploidy | |
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RNA Recoding and Rapid Evolution | |
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Holism Reductionism, and the Origin of Orthogenetic Information | |
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The Great Explanatory Power of Masking Theory | |
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Speciation Problems in Light of Masking Theory | |
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Parallel Evolution and Other Adaptational Mysteries | |
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God and the Existence of a Master Evolutionary Program | |
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The Return of Goldschmidt's "Hopeful Monster" | |
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Self-Organization and the Prospect of Directed Evolution | |
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The Role of Evolutionary Genes in the Origin of Species | |
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Self-Organization and the Rise of Species | |
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Orthogenesis and Autoevolutionism | |
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Molecular Drive and the Process of Concerted Evolution | |
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On the Role of Natural Processes in the Creation | |
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God is Natural | |
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Can God Act Acausally? | |
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The Process View | |
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God Isn't Limited by Time | |
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Divine Delegation | |
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The Reality and Necessity of Evolution as a Cosmic Process | |
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The Validity of the Evolutionary Paradigm | |
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A Word of Caution | |
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The Role of the Developmental Process in the Human Definition | |
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Why "Data Disks" Cannot Be Used in the Programming of Human Beings | |
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Are Humans Worth Creating? | |
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De Re Necessity and the Deistic Evolutionist's Position | |
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The Primacy of the Developmental Process in the Grand Universal Scheme | |
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The Developmental Parallelism Between Cosmic and Human Evolution | |
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Human Rationality and Natural Selection | |
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Extinction and Human Development | |
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The Importance of Man's Environmental Mileu | |
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A Universe of Unbroken Wholeness | |
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The Biblical View | |
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The Legitimacy of Moderate Anthropocentrism | |
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The Morality of Evolution | |
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Do Animals Really Suffer? | |
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Those Infamous Ichneumons | |
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Evolutionary Waste and the Prospect of Intelligent Design | |
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Deistic Evolution and Modern Philosophical Theology | |
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Creation Ex Nihilo | |
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Deistic Evolution and Process Thought | |
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Supernatural Naturalism | |
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Theistic Naturalism vs. Supernatural Naturalism | |
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The More Plausible View | |
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William Paley and the Deistic Evolutionist's Position | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Downfall of Darwinism | |
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The Role of Bias in Modern Evolutionary Interpretations | |
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The Anti-Empirical Effect of Neo-Darwinian Dogma | |
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Projection | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |