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Intelligent design creationism and its critics: philosophical, theological, and scientific perspectives
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MIT Press
Publication Date
c2001
Language
English
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I. Intelligent Design Creationism's "Wedge Strategy"
1. Wedge at Work: How Intelligent Design Creationism Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream / Barbara Forrest
II. Johnson's Critique of Evolutionary Naturalism
2. Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism / Phillip E. Johnson
3. Naturalism, Evidence, and Creationism: The Case of Phillip Johnson / Robert T. Pennock
4. Response to Pennock / Phillip E. Johnson
5. Reply: Johnson's Reason in the Balance / Robert T. Pennock
III. Theological Conflict? Evolution vs. the Bible
6. When Faith and Reason Clash: Evolution and the Bible / Alvin Plantinga
7. When Faith and Reason Cooperate / Howard J. Van Till
8. Plantinga's Defense of Special Creation / Ernan McMullin
9. Evolution, Neutrality, and Antecedent Probability: A Reply to McMullin and Van Till / Alvin Plantinga
IV. Intelligent Design's Scientific Claims
10. Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference / Michael J. Behe
11. Born-Again Creationism / Philip Kitcher
12. Biology Remystified: The Scientific Claims of the New Creationists / Matthew J. Brauer and Daniel R. Brumbaugh
V. Plantinga's Critique of Naturalism and Evolution
13. Methodological Naturalism? / Alvin Plantinga
14. Methodological Naturalism under Attack / Michael Ruse
15. Plantinga's Case against Naturalistic Epistemology / Evan Fales
16. Plantinga's Probability Arguments against Evolutionary Naturalism / Branden Fitelson and Elliott Sober
VI. Intelligent Design Creationism vs. Theistic Evolutionism
17. Creator or Blind Watchmaker? / Phillip E. Johnson
18. Phillip Johnson on Trial: A Critique of His Critique of Darwin / Nancey Murphy
19. Welcoming the "Disguised Friend" - Darwinism and Divinity / Arthur Peacocke
20. Creation: Intelligently Designed or Optimally Equipped? / Howard J. Van Till
21. Is Theism Compatible with Evolution? / Roy Clouser
VII. Intelligent Design and Information
22. Is Genetic Information Irreducible? / Phillip E. Johnson
23. Reply to Phillip Johnson / Richard Dawkins
24. Reply to Johnson / George C. Williams
25. Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information / William A. Dembski
26. Information and the Argument from Design / Peter Godfrey-Smith
27. How Not to Detect Design - Critical Notice: William A. Dembski, The Design Inference / Branden Fitelson, Christopher Stephens and Elliott Sober
28. "Information Challenge" / Richard Dawkins
VIII. Intelligent Design Theorists Turn the Tables
29. Who's Got the Magic? / William A. Dembski
30. Wizards of ID: Reply to Dembski / Robert T. Pennock
31. Panda's Thumb / Stephen Jay Gould
32. Role of Theology in Current Evolutionary Reasoning / Paul A. Nelson
33. Appealing to Ignorance Behind the Cloak of Ambiguity / Kelly C. Smith
34. Nonoverlapping Magisteria / Stephen Jay Gould
IX. Creationism and Education
35. Why Creationism Should Not Be Taught in the Public Schools / Robert T. Pennock
36. Creation and Evolution: A Modest Proposal / Alvin Plantinga
37. Reply to Plantinga's "Modest Proposal" / Robert T. Pennock.
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