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| Genre/Form: | Miscellanea |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Dembski, William A., 1960- Design revolution. Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2004 (OCoLC)761191586 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
William A Dembski |
| ISBN: | 0830823751 9780830823758 9780830832163 0830832165 |
| OCLC Number: | 53058980 |
| Description: | 334 p. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | William A. Dembski. |
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