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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Historical Backdrop | |
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| Recognizing the Divine Finger | |
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| Homer Simpson's Prayer | |
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| Signs in Decision-Making | |
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| Ordinary Versus Extraordinary Signs | |
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| Moses and Pharaoh | |
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| The Philistines and the Ark | |
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| The Sign of the Resurrection | |
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| In Defense of Premodernity | |
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| The Critique of Miracles | |
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| Miracles as Evidence for Faith | |
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| Spinoza's Rejection of Miracles | |
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| Schleiermacher's Assimilation of Spinoza | |
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| Unpacking Schleiermacher's Naturalistic Critique | |
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| Critiquing the Naturalistic Critique | |
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| The Significance of the Naturalistic Critique | |
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| The Demise of British Natural Theology | |
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| Pauli's Sneer | |
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| From Contrivance to Natural Law | |
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| From Natural Law to Agnosticism | |
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| Darwin and His Theory | |
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| Design and Miracles | |
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| The Presupposition of Positivism | |
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| A Theory of Design | |
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| Naturalism and Its Cure | |
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| Nature and Creation | |
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| The Root of Idolatry | |
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| Naturalism Within Western Culture | |
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| The Cure: Intelligent Design | |
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| Not Theistic Evolution | |
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| The Importance of Definitions | |
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| A New Generation of Scholars | |
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| Reinstating Design Within Science | |
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| Design's Departure from Science | |
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| Why Reinstate Design? | |
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| The Complexity-Specification Criterion | |
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| Specification | |
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| False Negatives and False Positives | |
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| Why the Criterion Works | |
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| Irreducible Complexity | |
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| So What? | |
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| Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information | |
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| Complex Specified Information | |
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| Generating Information via Law | |
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| Generating Information via Chance | |
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| Generating Information via Law and Chance | |
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| The Law of Conservation of Information | |
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| Applying the Theory to Evolutionary Biology | |
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| Reconceptualizing Evolutionary Biology | |
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| Bridging Science and Theology | |
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| Science and Theology in Mutual Support | |
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| Two Windows on Reality | |
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| Epistemic Support | |
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| Rational Compulsion | |
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| Explanatory Power | |
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| The Big Bang and Divine Creation | |
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| Christ as the Completion of Science | |
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| The Act of Creation | |
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| Creation as a Divine Gift | |
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| Naturalism's Challenge to Creation | |
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| Computational Reductionism | |
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| Our Empirical Selves Versus Our Actual Selves | |
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| The Resurgence of Design | |
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| The Creation of the World | |
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| The Intelligibility of the World | |
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| Creativity, Divine and Human | |
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| Objections to Design | |
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| The God of the Gaps | |
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| Intentionality Versus Design | |
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| Scientific Creationism | |
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| But Is It Science? | |
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| Dysteleology | |
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| Just an Anthropic Coincidence | |
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| Applying the Math to Biology | |
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| David Hume's Objections | |
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| Mundane Versus Transcendent Designers | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |