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Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics : Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives.
Title:
Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics : Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives.
Author:
Pennock, Robert T.
ISBN:
9780262281379
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (826 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- I - Intelligent Design Creationism's "Wedge Strategy" -- 1 - The Wedge at Work: How Intelligent Design Creationism Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream -- II - Johnson's Critique of Evolutionary Naturalism -- 2 - Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism -- 3 - Naturalism, Evidence, and Creationism: The Case of Phillip Johnson -- 4 - Response to Pennock -- 5 - Reply: Johnson's Reason in the Balance -- III - A Theological Conflict? Evolution vs. the Bible -- 6 - When Faith and Reason Clash: Evolution and the Bible -- 7 - When Faith and Reason Cooperate -- 8 - Plantinga's Defense of Special Creation -- 9 - Evolution, Neutrality, and Antecedent Probability: A Reply to McMullin and Van Till -- IV - Intelligent Design's Scientific Claims -- 10 - Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference -- 11 - Born-Again Creationism -- 12 - Biology Remystified: The Scientific Claims of the New Creationists -- V - Plantinga's Critique of Naturalism and Evolution -- 13 - Methodological Naturalism? -- 14 - Methodological Naturalism under Attack -- 15 - Plantinga's Case against Naturalistic Epistemology -- 16 - Plantinga's Probability Arguments against Evolutionary Naturalism -- VI - Intelligent Design Creationism vs. Theistic Evolutionism -- 17 - Creator or Blind Watchmaker? -- 18 - Phillip Johnson on Trial: A Critique of His Critique of Darwin -- 19 - Welcoming the "Disguised Friend" - Darwinism and Divinity -- 20 - The Creation: Intelligently Designed or Optimally Equipped? -- 21 - Is Theism Compatible with Evolution? -- VII - Intelligent Design and Information -- 22 - Is Genetic Information Irreducible? -- 23 - Reply to Phillip Johnson -- 24 - Reply to Johnson -- 25 - Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information.

26 - Information and the Argument from Design -- 27 - How Not to Detect Design - Critical Notice: William A. Dembski, The Design Inference -- 28 - The "Information Challenge" -- VIII - Intelligent Design Theorists Turn the Tables -- 29 - Who's Got the Magic? -- 30 - The Wizards of ID: Reply to Dembski -- 31 - The Panda's Thumb -- 32 - The Role of Theology in Current Evolutionary Reasoning -- 33 - Appealing to Ignorance Behind the Cloak of Ambiguity -- 34 - Nonoverlapping Magisteria -- IX - Creationism and Education -- 35 - Why Creationism Should Not Be Taught in the Public Schools -- 36 - Creation and Evolution: A Modest Proposal -- 37 - Reply to Plantinga's "Modest Proposal" -- Index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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