Mere Creation: Science, Faith and Intelligent Design by Dembski (English) Paperb

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For over a century, the scientific establishment has ignored challenges to the theory of evolution. But in the last decade such complacency about its scientific and philosophical foundations has been shaken. Many are asking whether a defensible alternative exists. In response, a movement has emerged among scholars exploring the possibility of intelligent design as an explanatory theory in scientific descriptions of the universe. As Michael Behe has proposed in his landmark Darwin's Black Box, at the cellular level there appears to be a high level of irreducible complexity that suggests design. In this book Behe is joined by eighteen other expert academics trained in mathematics, mechanical engineering, philosophy, physical anthropology, physics, astrophysics, biology, ecology and evolutionary biology to investigate the prospects for this emerging school of thought. Challenging the reigning ideology of materialistic naturalism on both scientific and philosophical grounds, these scholars press the case for a radical rethinknig of established evolutionary assumptions.

Table of Contents

Foreword/Henry F. Schaefer III Introduction: Mere Creation/William A. Dembski Part One: Unseating Naturalism 1. Nature: Designed or Designoid/Walter L. Bradley 2. Unseating Naturalism/Jonathan Wells Part Two: Design Theory 3. "You Guys Lost"/Nancy R. Pearcey 4. Redesigning Science/William A. Dembski 5. The Explanatory Power of Design/Steven C. Meyer 6. Applying Design Within Biology/Paul A. Nelson Part Three: Biological Design 7. Intelligent Design Theory as a Tool for Analyzing Biochemical Systems/Michael J. Behe 8. Basic Types of Life/Siegfried Scherer 9. Apes of Ancestors?/Sigrid Hartwig-Scherer 10. Evolutionary Accounts of Altruism the Problem of Goodness by Design/Jeffrey P. Schloss Part Four: Philosophy Design 11. The Explanatory Relevance of Libertarian Agency as a Model of Theistic Design/J. P. Moreland 12. Design, Chance Theistic Evolution/Del Ratzsch 13. God of the Gaps/John Mark Reynolds 14. Design the Cosmological Argument/William Lane Craig Part Five: Design in the Universe 15. Big Bang Model Refined by Fire/Hugh Ross 16. Design in Physics Biology/Robert Kaita 17. G

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For over a century, the scientific establishment has ignored challenges to the theory of evolution. But in the last decade such complacency about its scientific and philosophical foundations has been shaken. As cracks in the Darwinian edifice have begun to appear, many are asking whether a defensible alternative exists.In response to this growing crisis, a movement has emerged among scholars exploring the possibility of intelligent design as an explanatory theory in scientific descriptions of the universe. As Michael Behe has proposed in his landmark Darwin's Black Box, at the cellular level there appears to be a high level of irreducible complexity that suggests design.In this book Behe is joined by eighteen other expert academics trained in mathematics, mechanical engineering, philosophy, physical anthropology, physics, astrophysics, biology, ecology and evolutionary biology to investigate the prospects for this emerging school of thought. Challenging the reigning ideology of materialistic naturalism on both scientific and philosophical grounds, these scholars press the case for a radical rethinknig of established evolutionary assumptions.

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