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Nature, design, and science
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ISBN: 0791490998 0791448932 9780791448939 0791448940 9780791448946 9780791490990 Year: 2001 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

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"Although the scientific illegitimacy of supernatural design is typically asserted with enormous confidence and vigor, there has been surprisingly little actual work on such key foundational issues as even what design is and on specific criteria for assessing its legitimacy, or lack, as a scientific concept. However, intelligent supernatural design is again surfacing in discussions both of anthropic principles and of certain types of biological complexity. This book develops a definition of design, explicates the more specific concept of supernatural design, defends a general criterion for scientific legitimacy, and argues that in some cases the concept of intelligent supernatural design can meet the relevant requirements for scientific legitimacy."--Jacket.

Universes
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ISBN: 0415041449 0415139554 9780203053188 0203053184 9780415041447 9780415139557 0203053184 1134770669 0203283813 1280194928 1134770677 Year: 1989 Publisher: London: Routledge,

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Universes discusses the alleged evidence of fine tuning; mechanisms by which a varied set of Universes might be generated, and whether belief in God could be preferable to accepting universes in vast numbers.

Why intelligent design fails
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ISBN: 0813560322 1280540060 9786610540068 0813537487 9780813537481 081353433X 9780813534336 9781280540066 Year: 2004 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press


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The epistemological argument against atheism
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ISBN: 077342038X 9780773420380 9780773415669 0773415661 Year: 2011 Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. Edwin Mellen Press

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With his extraordinary command over English and his ability to transmit ideas clearly, Meynell takes on the concept of atheism and what he labels as Schleiermacher's cultured 'despisers of religion'. He argues that the concept of God is a rational belief and that the awareness of divinity illuminates the path for science. Not only does Meynell defend the existence of God, but also Christianity itself. He describes it as a form of dispensation to meet our human condition which acts as a substitute to the atheistic materialist alternative. Meynell adds that there is much to be learned from other

God and goodness
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ISBN: 113463823X 128031737X 9786610317370 0203456882 0203258266 9780203258262 9780203456880 9780415199155 0415199158 6610317372 9781134638185 9781134638222 9781134638239 9780415862738 1134638221 Year: 1999 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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God and Goodness presents a fresh approach, arguing that the goodness of the world echoes the goodness of its source. It makes a case for supposing that the world exists because it is good that it should exist.

God, chance, and purpose : can God have it both ways?
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ISBN: 9780521880855 0521880858 9780521707084 0521707080 9780511807701 0511387237 9780511388224 0511388225 9780511387234 0511807708 9780511380396 0511380399 9786611254896 6611254897 9780511384370 0511384378 1107184606 0511383509 0511385331 1281254894 0511386206 0511382561 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Scientific accounts of existence give chance a central role. At the smallest level, quantum theory involves uncertainty and evolution is driven by chance and necessity. These ideas do not fit easily with theology in which chance has been seen as the enemy of purpose. One option is to argue, as proponents of Intelligent Design do, that chance is not real and can be replaced by the work of a Designer. Others adhere to a deterministic theology in which God is in total control. Neither of these views, it is argued, does justice to the complexity of nature or the greatness of God. The thesis of this book is that chance is neither unreal nor non-existent but an integral part of God's creation. This view is expounded, illustrated and defended by drawing on the resources of probability theory and numerous examples from the natural and social worlds.


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The Intelligible universe
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ISBN: 9789812794123 9812794123 9812794107 9789812794109 9812794115 9789812794116 Year: 2008 Publisher: Singapore Hackensack, NJ World Scientific

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This interesting book reviews WMAP's main results (2003) and discusses in detail how the accurate qualitative results for the "age" of the universe and the Hubble constant were anticipated in an article published five years before in Acta Cosmologica, Krakow. In the final chapter on "Cosmic Numbers", it is shown that, as a result of the coincidence at decoupling time between atom formation and matter/radiation equality, a reasonable cosmic justification for the mass ratio of protons and electrons is obtained.


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Evolution, creationism, and the battle to control America's classrooms
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ISBN: 9780521190466 0521190460 9780521148863 0521148863 9780511760914 9780511932663 0511932669 0511760914 0511852517 1107203910 1282908243 9786612908248 051193131X 0511927479 0511924933 0511929986 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press,

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Who should decide what children are taught in school? This question lies at the heart of the evolution-creation wars that have become a regular feature of the US political landscape. Ever since the 1925 Scopes 'monkey trial' many have argued that the people should decide by majority rule and through political institutions; others variously point to the federal courts, educational experts, or scientists as the ideal arbiter. Berkman and Plutzer illuminate who really controls the nation's classrooms. Based on their innovative survey of 926 high school biology teachers they show that the real power lies with individual educators who make critical decisions in their own classrooms. Broad teacher discretion sometimes leads to excellent instruction in evolution. But the authors also find evidence of strong creationist tendencies in America's public high schools. More generally, they find evidence of a systematic undermining of science and the scientific method in many classrooms.

Debating design : from Darwin to DNA
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ISBN: 9780521709903 0521829496 9780521829496 9780511804823 9780511338595 0511338597 0511337515 9780511337512 0511804822 0521709903 1107160405 1281113131 9786611113131 0511338031 0511336861 0511566549 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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William Dembski, Michael Ruse, and other prominent philosophers provide here a comprehensive balanced overview of the debate concerning biological origins--a controversial dialectic since Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859. Invariably, the source of controversy has been "design." Is the appearance of design in organisms (as exhibited in their functional complexity) the result of purely natural forces acting without prevision or teleology? Or, does the appearance of design signify genuine prevision and teleology, and, if so, is that design empirically detectable and thus open to scientific inquiry? Four main positions have emerged in response to these questions: *Darwinism* *self-organization* *theistic evolution* *intelligent design*. The contributors to this volume define their respective positions in an accessible style, inviting readers to draw their own conclusions. Two introductory essays furnish a historical overview of the debate. William A. Dembski is an associate research professor in the conceptual foundations of science at Baylor University as well as a senior fellow with Seattle's Discovery Institute. His most important books are The Design Inference Cambridge, 1998) and No Free Lunch (Rowman and Littleton, 2002). Michael Ruse is Lucyle T. Wekmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. He is the author of many books, including Can a Darwinian Be a Christian?: The Relationship Between Science and Religion (Cambridge, 2000).

Creationism and its critics in antiquity
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ISBN: 128235938X 9786612359385 0520934369 9780520934368 9780520253643 0520253647 9780520260061 0520260066 6612359382 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berkeley (Calif.) University of California Press

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The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans famously disagreed on whether the cosmos was the product of design or accident. In this book, David Sedley examines this question and illuminates new historical perspectives on the pantheon of thinkers who laid the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Versions of what we call the "creationist" option were widely favored by the major thinkers of classical antiquity, including Plato, whose ideas on the subject prepared the ground for Aristotle's celebrated teleology. But Aristotle aligned himself with the anti-creationist lobby, whose most militant members--the atomists--sought to show how a world just like ours would form inevitably by sheer accident, given only the infinity of space and matter. This stimulating study explores seven major thinkers and philosophical movements enmeshed in the debate: Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, the atomists, Aristotle, and the Stoics.

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