Dembski, William A.; Ruse, Michael, 2004- Debating Design. From Darwin to DNA

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1. General Introduction — William A. Dembski and Michael Ruse
2. The Argument from Design: A Brief History — Michael Ruse
3. Who’s Afraid of ID? A Survey of the Intelligent Design Movement — Angus Menuge

Part I: Darwinism

4. Design without Designer: Darwin’s Greatest Discovery — Francisco J. Ayala
5. The Flagellum Unspun: The Collapse of “Irreducible Complexity” — Kenneth R. Miller
6. The Design Argument — Elliott Sober
7. DNA by Design? Stephen Meyer and the Return of the God Hypothesis — Robert T. Pennock

Part II: Complex Self-Organization

8. Prolegomenon to a General Biology — Stuart Kauffman
9. Darwinism, Design, and Complex Systems Dynamics — Bruce H. Weber and David J. Depew
10. Emergent Complexity, Teleology, and the Arrow of Time — Paul Davies
11. The Emergence of Biological Value — James Barham

Part III: Theistic Evolution

12. Darwin, Design, and Divine Providence — John F. Haught
13. The Inbuilt Potentiality of Creation — John Polkinghorne
14. Theistic Evolution — Keith Ward
15. Intelligent Design: Some Geological, Historical, and Theological Questions — Michael Roberts
16. The Argument from Laws of Nature Reassessed — Richard Swinburne

Part IV: Intelligent Design

17. The Logical Underpinnings of Intelligent Design — William A. Dembski
18. Information, Entropy, and the Origin of Life — Walter L. Bradley
19. Irreducible Complexity: Obstacle to Darwinian Evolution — Michael J. Behe
20. The Cambrian Information Explosion: Evidence for Intelligent Design — Stephen C. Meyer

Index