Intelligent design creationism and its critics : philosophical, theological, and scientific perspectives / edited by Robert T. Pennock.

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, [2001], ©2001.

xx, 805 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The wedge at work: how intelligent design creationism is wedging its way into the cultural and academic mainstream / Barbara Forrest -- Evolution as dogma: the establishment of naturalism / Phillip E. Johnson -- Naturalism, evidence, and creationism: the case of Phillip Johnson / Robert T. Pennock -- Response to Pennock / Phillip E. Johnson -- Reply: Johnson's Reason in the balance / Robert T. Pennock -- When faith and reason clash: evolution and the Bible / Alvin Plantinga -- When faith and reason cooperate / Howard J. Van Till -- Plantinga's defense of special creation / Ernan McMullin -- Evolution, neutrality, and antecedent probability: a reply to McMullin and Van Till / Alvin Plantinga -- Molecular machines: experimental support for the design inference / Michael J. Behe -- Born-again creationism / Philip Kitcher -- Biology remystified: the scientific claims of the new creationists / Matthew J. Brauer, Daniel R. Brumbaugh -- Methodological naturalism? / Alvin Plantinga -- Methodological naturalism under attack / Michael Ruse -- Plantinga's case against naturalistic epistemology / Evan Fales -- Plantinga's probability arguments against evolutionary naturalism / Branden Fitelson, Elliott Sober -- Creator or blind watchmaker? / Phillip E. Johnson -- Phillip Johnson on trial: a critique of his critique of Darwin / Nancey Murphy -- Welcoming the "disguised friend" - Darwinism and divinity / Arthur Peacocke -- The creation: intelligently designed or optimally equipped? / Howard J. Van Till --

Is theism compatible with evolution? / Roy Clouser -- Is genetic information irreducible? / Phillip E. Johnson -- Reply to Phillip Johnson / Richard Dawkins -- Reply to Johnson / George C. Williams -- Intelligent design as a theory of information / William A. Dembski -- Information and the argument from design / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- How not to detect design - critical notice: William A. Dembski, The design inference / Branden Fitelson, Christopher Stephens, Elliott Sober -- The "information challenge" / Richard Dawkins -- Who's got the magic? / William A. Dembski -- The wizards of ID: reply to Dembski / Robert T. Pennock -- The panda's thumb / Stephen Jay Gould -- The role of theology in current evolutionary reasoning / Paul A. Nelson -- Appealing to ignorance behind the cloak of ambiguity / Kelly C. Smith -- Nonoverlapping magisteria / Stephen Jay Gould -- Why creationism should not be taught in the public schools / Robert T. Pennock -- Creation and evolution: a modest proposal / Alvin Plantinga -- Reply to Plantinga's "modest proposal" / Robert T. Pennock.