TY - BOOK AU - Dembski,William A. TI - Mere creation: science, faith & intelligent design SN - 9780830815159 AV - Q175 PY - 1998/// CY - Downers Grove, Illinois PB - InterVarsity Press KW - Science KW - Philosophy KW - Religion and science KW - Naturalism KW - Intelligent design (Teleology) KW - Experimental design N1 - 2; Nature : designed or designoid; Walter I. Bradley --; Unseating naturalism; Jonathan Wells --; "You guys lost" / Nancy R. Pearcey --; Redesigning science; William A. Dembski --; The explanatory power of design; Steven C. Meyer --; Applying design within biology; Paul A. Nelson --; Intelligent design theory as a tool for analyzing biochemical systems; Michael J. Behe --; Basic types of life; Siegfried Scherer --; Apes or ancestors? / Sigrid Hartwig-Scherer --; Evolutionary accounts of altruism and the problem of goodness by design; Jeffrey P. Schloss --; The explanatory relevance of libertarian agency as a model of theistic design; J.P. Moreland --; Design, chance and theistic evolution; Del Ratzsch --; God of the gaps; John Mark Reynolds --; Design and the cosmologiucal argument; William Lane Craig --; Big bang model refined by fire; Hugh Ross --; Design in physics and biology; Robert Kaita --; Godel's question; David Berlinski --; Artificial life and cellular automata; Robert C. Newman --; Afterword : How to sink a battleship; Phillip E. Johnson --; Postscript : The twenty-first century has arrived; Bruce Chapman; 2 N2 - 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 ER -