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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 | |