Manson, Neil A. (red.), 2003- God and Design. The Teleological Argument and Modern Science

Contents

List of illustrations

Notes on contributors

Preface

Introduction — Neil A. Manson

• Classifying the design argument
• The resurgence of the design argument in the late twentieth century
• The logic of the design argument
• Specifying for what the Universe is designed
• What should we expect from a supernatural designer?
• The much-maligned multiverse

Part I. General considerations

1. The design argument — Elliott Sober
2. The meaning of design — John Leslie
3. The design inference: old wine in new wineskins — Robert O’Connor
4. God by design? — Jan Narveson
5. The argument to God from fine-tuning reassessed — Richard Swinburne
6. Perceiving design — Del Ratzsch

Part II. Physical cosmology

7. The appearance of design in physics and cosmology — Paul Davies
8. Design and the anthropic fine-tuning of the Universe — William Lane Craig
9. Evidence for fine-tuning — Robin Collins
10. Probabilities and the fine-tuning argument: a skeptical view — Timothy McGrew, Lydia McGrew, and Eric Vestrup

Part III. Multiple universes

11. Other universes: a scientific perspective — Martin Rees
12. Too many universes — D. H. Mellor
13. Fine-tuning and multiple universes — Roger White
14. The chance of the gaps — William Dembski

Part IV. Biology

15. The modern intelligent design hypothesis: breaking rules — Michael Behe
16. Answering the biochemical argument from design — Kenneth R. Miller
17. Modern biologists and the argument from design — Michael Ruse
18. The paradoxes of evolution: inevitable humans in a lonely universe? — Simon Conway Morris
19. The compatibility of Darwinism and design — Peter van Inwagen

Index