Science, Faith & lntelligent Design
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edited by
William A. Dembski
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foreword by
Henry F. Schaefer III
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Figure 5.4 taken from A. G. Cairns-Smith, Genetic takeover and the mineral origins of life, copyright 1982 by A. G. Cairns-Smith. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.
Figure 6.1 taken from Peter A. Lawrence, The making of a fly, copyright 1992 by Peter A. Lawrence. Reprinted with the permission of Blackwell Science Ltd.
Figure 6.2 taken from Richard Elinson, “Changes in developmental patterns: Embryos of amphibians with large eggs,” in R. A. Raff and E. C. Raff, Development as an evolutionary process, copyright 1987 by R. A. Raff and E. C. Raff. Reprinted with the permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Figure 6.3 taken from Scott Gilbert, Developmental biology, 3rd ed., copyright 1991 by Scott Gilbert. Reprinted with the permission of Sinauer Associates. C. elegans cell lineage figure originally published in J. E. Sulston, J. Schierenberg, J. White and N. Thompson, “The embryonic cell lineage of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans,” Developmental biology 100 (1983): 64–119. Copyright 1983 by J. E. Sulston, J. Schierenberg, J. White and N. Thompson. Reprinted with permission of Academic Press, Inc.
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ISBN 0-8308-1515-5
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mere creation: science, faith & intelligent design / William A.
Dembski, editor.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8308-1515-5 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Science—Philosophy. 2. Religion and science. 3. Naturalism.
4. Experimental design. I. Dembski, William A., 1960–.
Q175.M5413 1998
501–dc21 98-20999
CIP
M. P. Schützenberger
1920–1996
Marcel-Paul Schützenberger was a remarkable figure in the intellectual life of the late twentieth century. Within the ...
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About Mere Creation: Science, Faith & Intelligent DesignFor over a century, the scientific establishment has ignored challenges to the theory of evolution. But in the last decade such complacency about its scientific and philosophical foundations has been shaken. As cracks in the Darwinian edifice have begun to appear, many are asking whether a defensible alternative exists. In response to this growing crisis, a movement has emerged among scholars exploring the possibility of intelligent design as an explanatory theory in scientific descriptions of the universe. As Michael Behe has proposed in his landmark Darwin‘s Black Box, at the cellular level there appears to be a high level of irreducible complexity that suggests design. In this book Behe is joined by eighteen other expert academics trained in mathematics, mechanical engineering, philosophy, physical anthropology, physics, astrophysics, biology, ecology and evolutionary biology to investigate the prospects for this emerging school of thought. Challenging the reigning ideology of materialistic naturalism on both scientific and philosophical grounds, these scholars press the case for a radical rethinking of established evolutionary assumptions. |
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