Dembski, William A., 1999- Intelligent Design

Pełny spis z PDF 8–9, wraz z podrozdziałami i paginacją, sprawdzony wizualnie. W obrazie źródła przy przedmowie występuje znak przypominający S zamiast czytelnego numeru, a przy 7.1 widnieje 157; zachowano te zapisy, bez cichej korekty. Przedmowa zaczyna się na PDF 10 (drukowana strona 9), a 7.1 na PDF 188 (drukowana strona 187). Uporządkowano odstępy i podziały wierszy, nie dodając tematów. Zachowano także widoczne w kopii formy „A Theory ol Design” i „A.S Dysteleology”; są to osobliwości źródła, nie dopisane nagłówki.

Contents
Foreword by Michael J. Behe S
Preface 13
Part 1 Historical Backdrop
1 Recognizing the Divine Finger 25
1.1 Homer Simpson's Prayer 25
1.2 Signs in Decision-Making 28
1.3 Ordinary Versus Extraordinary Signs 31
1.4 Moses and Pharaoh 35
1.5 The Philistines and the Ark 37
1.6 The Sign of the Resurrection 40
1.7 In Defense of Premodernity 44
2 The Critique of Miracles 49
2.1 Miracles as Evidence for Faith 49
2.2 Spinoza's Rejection of Miracles 51
2.3 Schleiermacher's Assimilation of Spinoza 55
2.4 Unpacking Schleiermacher's Naturalistic Critique 58
2.5 Critiquing the Naturalistic Critique 61
2.6 The Significance of the Naturalistic Critique 67
3 The Demise of British Natural Theology 70
3.1 Pauli's Sneer 70
3.2 From Contrivance to Natural Law 73
3.3 From Natural Law to Agnosticism 79
3.4 Darwin and His Theory 82
3.5 Design and Miracles 85
3.6 The Presupposition of Positivism 90
Part 2 A Theory ol Design
4 Naturalism & Its Cure 97
4.1 Nature and Creation 97
4.2 The Root of Idolatry 99
4.3 Naturalism Within Western Culture 103
4.4 The Cure: Intelligent Design 105
4.5 Not Theistic Evolution 109
4.6 The Importance of Definitions 114
4.7 A New Generation of Scholars 120
5 Reinstating Design Within Science 122
5.1 Design's Departure from Science 122
5.2 Why Reinstate Design? 124
5.3 The Complexity-Specification Criterion 127
5.4 Specification 133
5.5 False Negatives and False Positives 139
5.6 Why the Criterion Works 144
5.7 Irreducible Complexity 146
5.8 So What? 149
6 Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information 153
6.1 Complex Specified Information 153
6.2 Generating Information via Law 160
6.3 Generating Information via Chance 165
6.4 Generating Information via Law and Chance 167
6.5 The Law of Conservation of Information 170
6.6 Applying the Theory to Evolutionary Biology 174
6.7 Reconceptualizing Evolutionary Biology 179
Part 3 Bridging Science & Theology
7 Science & Theology in Mutual Support 187
7.1 Two Windows on Reality 157
7.2 Epistemic Support 192
7.3 Rational Compulsion 195
7.4 Explanatory Power 199
7.5 The Big Bang and Divine Creation 203
7.6 Christ as the Completion of Science 205
8 The Act of Creation 211
8.1 Creation as a Divine Gift 211
8.2 Naturalism's Challenge to Creation 212
8.3 Computational Reductionism 216
8.4 Our Empirical Selves Versus Our Actual Selves 220
8.5 The Resurgence of Design 222
8.6 The Creation of the World 224
8.7 The Intelligibility of the World 229
8.8 Creativity, Divine and Human 234
Appendix: Objections to Design 237
A.1 The God of the Gaps 238
A.2 Intentionality Versus Design 245
A.3 Scientific Creationism 247
A.4 But Is It Science? 252
A.S Dysteleology 261
A.6 Just an Anthropic Coincidence 264
A.7 Applying the Math to Biology 268
A.8 David Hume's Objections 271
A.9 Mundane Versus Transcendent Designers 276
Notes 280
Index 303