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The design revolution : answering the toughest questions about intelligent design / William A. Dembski.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2004.Description: 334 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0830823751 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 124 22
LOC classification:
  • BS 652 .D46 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Item type: Books
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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.