Design Revolution Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design

Name: Design Revolution Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design
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ISBN: 9780830832163

ISBN-10: 0830832165

ISBN-13: 9780830832163

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Authors: William A. Dembski, Charles W. Colson

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Features & Benefits- Addresses more than sixty of the toughest questions asked by experts and nonexperts- Includes questions asked of Dembski during his public lectures- Includes objections raised in professional reviews of intelligent design publications- Highlights the prospects and challenges facing the intelligent design movement today- Clear and concise- Written by a noted expert on and popular advocate of intelligent design

Book details

List price: $26.00
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 2/13/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Foreword by Charles W. Colson


Preface


Acknowledgments



Basic Distinctions



Intelligent Design



Creation



Scientific Creationism



Disguised Theology



Religious Motivation



Optimal Design



The Design Argument



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



Information



Information and Matter



Information Theory



Biology's Information Problem



Information ex Nihilo



Nature's Receptivity to Information



The Law of Conservation of Information



Issues Arising from Naturalism



Varieties of Naturalism



Interventionism



Miracles and Counterfactual Substitution



The Supernatural



Embodied and Unembodied Designers



The Designer Regress



Selective Skepticism



The Progress of Science



Theoretical Challenges to Intelligent Design



Argument from Ignorance



Eliminative Induction



Hume, Reid and Signs of Intelligence



Design by Elimination vs. Design by Comparison



The Demand for Details: Darwinism's Tu Quoque



Displacement and the No Free Lunch Principle



The Only Games in Town



A New Kind of Science



Aspirations



Mechanism



Testability



The Significance of Michael Behe



Peer Review



The "Wedge"



Research Themes



Making Intelligent Design a Disciplined Science


Select Bibliography


Index