Debating design : from Darwin to DNA / edited by William A. Dembski, Michael Ruse. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. - xiii, 405 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Papers from a conference, entitled Design and its Critics, held at Concordia University, Mequon, Wis., June 22-24, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. General introduction / William Dembski and Michael Ruse -- The argument from design : a brief history / Michael Ruse -- Who's afraid of ID? : a survey of the intelligent design movement / Angus Menuge -- pt. I: Darwinism. Design without designer : Darwin's greatest discovery / Francisco J. Ayala -- The flagellum unspun : the collapse of "irreducible complexity" / Kenneth R. Miller -- The design argument / Elliott Sober -- DNA by design? : Stephen Meyer and the return of the god hypothesis / Robert T. Pennock -- pt. II: Complex self-organization. Prolegomenon to a general biology / Stuart Kauffman -- Darwinism, design, and complex systems dynamics / Bruce H. Weber and David J. Depew -- Emergent complexity, teleology, and the arrow of time / Paul Davies -- The emergence of biological value / James Barham -- pt. III: Theistic evolution. Darwin, design, and divine providence / John F. Haught -- The inbuilt potentiality of creation / John Polkinghorne -- Theistic evolution / Keith Ward -- Intelligent design : some geological, historical, and theological questions / Michael Roberts -- The argument from laws of nature reassessed / Richard Swinburne -- pt. IV: Intelligent design. The logical underpinnings of intelligent design / William A. Dembski -- Information, entropy, and the origin of life / Walter L. Bradley -- Irreducible complexity : obstacle to Darwinian evolution / Michael J. Behe -- The Cambrian information explosion : evidence for intelligent design / Stephen C. Meyer.

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Evolution (Biology)--Philosophy--Congresses.
Intelligent design (Teleology)--Congresses.
Evolution (Biology)--Religious aspects--Christianity--Congresses.
Self-organizing systems--Congresses.
Evolution--Congresses.
Christianity--Congresses.
Philosophy--Congresses.
Religion and science--Congresses.

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