Author:
Dembski, William A., 1960-
Imprint:Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, 2004.
Description334 p. 24 cm.
Note:Includes index.
Note:Basic Distinctions -- Intelligent Design -- Creation -- Scientific Creationism -- Disguised Theology -- Religious Motivation -- Optimal Design -- The Design Argument -- 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 -- Information -- Information and Matter -- Information Theory -- Biology's Information Problem -- Information ex Nihilo -- Nature's Receptivity to Information -- The Law of Conservation of Information -- Issues Arising from Naturalism -- Varieties of Naturalism -- Interventionism -- Miracles and Counterfactual Substitution -- The Supernatural -- Embodied and Unembodied Designers -- The Designer Regress -- Selective Skepticism -- The Progress of Science -- 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 -- A New Kind of Science -- Aspirations -- Mechanism -- Testability -- The Significance of Michael Behe -- Peer Review -- The "Wedge" -- Research Themes -- Making Intelligent Design a Disciplined Science.
