Intelligent design : William A. Dembski & Michael Ruse in dialogue / Robert B. Stewart, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stewart, Robert B., 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intelligent design (Teleology).

Religion and science.

Creationism--Philosophy.

Creationism.

Physical Description:

xvii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2007]

Summary:

This volume highlights points of agreement and disagreement between two leading conversants on the subject of Intelligent Design and the sufficiency of a Darwinian explanation of evolution. The subject of Intelligent Design has raised considerable interest and controversy over the meaning and relationship of science and religious conviction. Here two leading intellectuals on the subject-William A. Dembski, senior fellow with the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, and Michael Ruse, an internationally noted philosopher of science-engage the issues. Their dialogue at the Greer-Heard Forum allows the reader to see in print how both positions are best articulated. The volume also provides the reader with an interdisciplinary assessment of Intelligent Design and Darwinian theory, enabling interested readers to assess and decide for themselves. Along with Dembski, Rase, and volume editor Robert Stewart, the interdisciplinary team features scientists, philosophers, and theologians and includes several of the most noted religious thinkers of our age on this topic.

Contents:

Introduction: What are we talking about? / Robert B. Stewart

Intelligent design : a dialogue / William A. Dembski and Michael Ruse

The evolution wars : who is fighting with whom about what? / Martinez Hewlett

Naturalism and intelligent design / William Lane Craig

The collapse of intelligent design / Wesley R. Elsberry and Nicholas Matzke

Intelligent design, religious motives, and the Constitution's religion clauses / Francis J. Beckwith

Dawkins, God, and the scientific enterprise : reflections on the appeal to Darwinism in fundamentalist atheism / Alister E. McGrath

Intelligent design and evolutionary psychology as research programs : a comparison of their most plausible specifications / J.P. Moreland

Because "cause" makes sense : the anthropic cosmological principle and quantum cosmocausality / Hal N. Ostrander

Science, divine action, and the intelligent design movement : a defense of theistic evolution / Nancey Murphy

The universe as creation / John Polkinghorne

Intelligent design : some critical reflections on the current debate / John C. Lennox

Flat or round? the sixth-century debate over the shape of the earth / Ken Keathley

Afterword: Faith in God and the world of nature / Wolfhart Pannenberg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-252) and index.

ISBN:

9780800662189

0800662180

OCLC:

148895223