دانلود کتاب The Intelligent Design Debate and the Temptation of Scientism

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Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
The purpose of this book
The temptation of scientism
The structure of the argument
2 Mapping the landscape of the debate
Intelligent Design’s story
ID and varieties of creationism
ID’s struggle against naturalism
The possibility of natural theology
3 The cosmological debate
Fine-tuning for the existence of complex life
Fine-tuning for discoverability
Design arguments and critiques
Level-shifting and the need for explanations
4 The biological debate
Biological ‘machinery’ and ‘information’
Understanding evolutionary biology
Irreducible complexity?
How to explain the unexplained?
5 Intelligent Design as science or pseudoscience
Methodological naturalism and ID’s critique
Defending methodological naturalism
On the difficulties of defining science
6 The designer of the gaps?
ID’s understanding of the designer
Natural theology and ID as idolatry
The God of the gaps critique
Theologies of the gaps
7 The intuitive possibility of design
The importance of thought experiments
Examples of thought experiments
Critical responses to thought experiments
Design as an intuitive belief
Perception of design or design argument?
8 The logic of design arguments
Traditional formulations of the design argument
The inference to the best explanation
Different strategies for defending the argument
The inference to the only explanation
9 Design, natural evil and bad design
Understanding the problem
Explaining evil within id?
A patchwork quilt of responses
10 Intelligent Design and theistic evolutionism
Design and evolution in competition
The compatibility of evolution and design?
Theistic evolutionism and the evidence
Afterword: towards better discussion of Intelligent Design
Bibliography
Index