Debating Design (From Darwin to DNA)

Debating Design (From Darwin to DNA)

The book includes the following subjects;

• Design without Designer: Darwin’s Greatest Discovery
• The Collapse of “Irreducible Complexity
• The Design Argument
• DNA by Design?
• Darwinism, Design, and Complex Systems Dynamics
• Darwin, Design, and Divine Providence
• The Inbuilt Potentiality of Creation
• Intelligent Design: Some Geological, Historical, and Theological Questions
• The Argument from Laws of Nature Reassessed
• The Logical Underpinnings of Intelligent Design
• Information, Entropy, and the Origin of Life
• Irreducible Complexity: Obstacle to Darwinian Evolution
• The Cambrian Information Explosion: Evidence for Intelligent Design,

Debating Design (From Darwin to DNA) – Contents

Notes on Contributors page vii
introduction
1. General Introduction 3
William A. Dembski and Michael Ruse
2. The Argument from Design: A Brief History 13
Michael Ruse
3. Who’s Afraid of ID? A Survey of the Intelligent Design Movement 32
Angus Menuge
part i: darwinism
4. Design without Designer: Darwin’s Greatest Discovery 55
Francisco J. Ayala
5. The Flagellum Unspun: The Collapse of “Irreducible
Complexity” 81
Kenneth R. Miller
6. The Design Argument 98
Elliott Sober
7. DNA by Design? Stephen Meyer and the Return of the God Hypothesis 130
Robert T. Pennock
part ii: complex self-organization
8. Prolegomenon to a General Biology 151
Stuart Kauffman
9. Darwinism, Design, and Complex Systems Dynamics 173
Bruce H. Weber and David J. Depew
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10. Emergent Complexity, Teleology, and the Arrow of Time 191
Paul Davies
11. The Emergence of Biological Value 210
James Barham
part iii: theistic evolution
12. Darwin, Design, and Divine Providence 229
John F. Haught
13. The Inbuilt Potentiality of Creation 246
John Polkinghorne
14. Theistic Evolution 261
Keith Ward
15. Intelligent Design: Some Geological, Historical, and Theological Questions 275
Michael Roberts
16. The Argument from Laws of Nature Reassessed 294
Richard Swinburne
part iv: intelligent design
17. The Logical Underpinnings of Intelligent Design 311
William A. Dembski
18. Information, Entropy, and the Origin of Life 331
Walter L. Bradley
19. Irreducible Complexity: Obstacle to Darwinian Evolution 352
Michael J. Behe
20. The Cambrian Information Explosion: Evidence for Intelligent Design 371
Stephen C. Meyer
Index 393