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Dembski, William A., 1960-

The design revolution : answering the toughest questions about intelligent design / William A. Dembski. - Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2004. - 334 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-331) and index.

pt. 1. Basic distinctions. Intelligent design --
Creation --
Scientific creationism --
Disguised theology --
Religious motivation --
Optimal design --
The design argument --
pt. 2. Detecting design. The design inference --
Chance and necessity --
Specified complexity --
The explanatory filter --
Reliability of the criterion --
Objectivity and subjectivity --
Assertibility --
The chance of the gaps --
pt. 3. Information and matter --
Information theory --
Biology's information problem --
Information ex Nihilo --Nature's receptivity --
The law of conservation of information --
pt. 4. Issues arising from naturalism. Varieties of naturalism --
Interventionism --
Miracles and counterfactual substitution --
The supernatural --
Embodies and unembodied designers --
The designer regress --
Selective skepticism --
The progress of science --
pt. 5. Theoretical challenges to intelligent design. Argument from ignorance --
Eliminative induction --
Hume, Reid and signs of intelligence --
Design by elimination versus design by comparison --
The demand for details : Darwinism's Tu quoque --
Displacement and the no free lunch principle --
The only games in town --
pt. 6. A new kind of science. Aspirations --
Mechanism --
Testability --
The significance of Michael Behe --
Peer review --
The "wedge" --
Research times --
Making intelligent design a disciplined science.

ISBN: 0830823751 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2003020589

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Intelligent design (Teleology)--Miscellanea.
Intelligent design (Teleology)

LC Class. No.: BS 652 / .D46 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 124