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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 | |