Intelligent design creationism and its critics : philosophical, theological, and scientific perspectives /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001. |
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| Description: | xx, 805 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4608079 |
Table of 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 Philip 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
