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Authors: Robert T. Pennock
ISBN-13: 9780262661249, ISBN-10: 0262661241
Format: Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: December 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Robert T. Pennock

Robert T. Pennock is Associate Professor at the Lyman Briggs School and in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University.

Book Synopsis

An anthology of writings by proponents and critics of intelligent design creationism.

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Contributors
I	Intelligent Design Creationism's "Wedge Strategy"	1
1	The Wedge at Work: How Intelligent Design Creationism Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream	5
II	Johnson's Critique of Evolutionary Naturalism	55
2	Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism	59
3	Naturalism, Evidence, and Creationism: The Case of Phillip Johnson	77
4	Response to Pennock	99
5	Reply: Johnson's Reason in the Balance	103
III	A Theological Conflict? Evolution vs. the Bible	109
6	When Faith and Reason Clash: Evolution and the Bible	113
7	When Faith and Reason Cooperate	147
8	Plantinga's Defense of Special Creation	165
9	Evolution, Neutrality, and Antecedent Probability: A Reply to McMullin and Van Till	197
IV	Intelligent Design's Scientific Claims	237
10	Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference	241
11	Born-Again Creationism	257
12	Biology Remystified: The Scientific Claims of the New Creationists	289
V	Plantinga's Critique of Naturalism and Evolution	335
13	Methodological Naturalism?	339
14	Methodological Naturalism under Attack	363
15	Plantinga's Case against Naturalistic Epistemology	387
16	Plantinga's Probability Arguments against Evolutionary Naturalism	411
VI	Intelligent Design Creationism vs. Theistic Evolutionism	429
17	Creator or Blind Watchmaker?	435
18	Phillip Johnson on Trial: A Critique of His Critique of Darwin	451
19	Welcoming the "Disguised Friend" - Darwinism and Divinity	471
20	The Creation: Intelligently Designed or Optimally Equipped?	487
21	Is Theism Compatible with Evolution?	513
VII	Intelligent Design and Information	537
22	Is Genetic Information Irreducible?	543
23	Reply to Phillip Johnson	549
24	Reply to Johnson	551
25	Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information	553
26	Information and the Argument from Design	575
27	How Not to Detect Design - Critical Notice: William A. Dembski, The Design Inference	597
28	The "Information Challenge"	617
VIII	Intelligent Design Theorists Turn the Tables	633
29	Who's Got the Magic?	639
30	The Wizards of ID: Reply to Dembski	645
31	The Panda's Thumb	669
32	The Role of Theology in Current Evolutionary Reasoning	677
33	Appealing to Ignorance Behind the Cloak of Ambiguity	705
34	Nonoverlapping Magisteria	737
IX	Creationism and Education	751
35	Why Creationism Should Not Be Taught in the Public Schools	755
36	Creation and Evolution: A Modest Proposal	779
37	Reply to Plantinga's "Modest Proposal"	793
	Index	799

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