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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:
9780585442631
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xx, 805 p.) : ill.
General Note:
"A Bradford book."
Contents:
The wedge at work: how intelligent design creationism is wedging its way into the cultural and academic mainstream / Evolution as dogma: the establishment of naturalism / Naturalism, evidence, and creationism: the case of Phillip Johnson / Response to Pennock / Reply: Johnson's Reason in the balance / When faith and reason clash: evolution and the Bible / When faith and reason cooperate / Plantinga's defense of special creation / Evolution, neutrality, and antecedent probability: a reply to McMullin and Van Till / Molecular machines: experimental support for the design inference / Born-again creationism / Biology remystified: the scientific claims of the new creationists / Methodological naturalism? / Methodological naturalism under attack / Plantinga's case against naturalistic epistemology / Plantinga's probability arguments against evolutionary naturalism / Creator or blind watchmaker? / Phillip Johnson on trial: a critique of his critique of Darwin / Welcoming the "disguised friend" -- Darwinism and divinity / The creation: intelligently designed or optimally equipped?

Is theism compatible with evolution? / Is genetic information irreducible? / Reply to Phillip Johnson / Reply to Johnson / Intelligent design as a theory of information / Information and the argument from design / How not to detect design -- critical notice: William A. Dembski, The design inference / The "information challenge" / Who's got the magic? / The wizards of ID: reply to Dembski / The panda's thumb / The role of theology in current evolutionary reasoning / Appealing to ignorance behind the cloak of ambiguity / Nonoverlapping magisteria / Why creationism should not be taught in the public schools / Creation and evolution: a modest proposal / Reply to Plantinga's "modest proposal"
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