TY - BOOK AU - Moreland,James Porter TI - The creation hypothesis: scientific evidence for an intelligent designer SN - 0830816984 AV - BS651.M839.C743 1994 PY - 1994/// CY - Downers Grove, Illinois PB - InterVarsity Press KW - Creationism KW - God KW - Proof, Cosmological KW - Naturalism KW - Religion and science N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-331); Theistic science and methodological naturalism; by J.P. Moreland; The methodological equivalence of design and descent; by Stephen C. Meyer; On the very possibility of intelligent design; by William A. Dembski; Astronomical evidences for a personal, transcendent God; by Hugh Ross; Information and the origin of life; by Walter L. Bradley and Charles B. Thaxton; The origin of life's major groups; by Kurt P. Wise; Origin of the human language capacity : in whose image?; by John W. Oller Jr. and John L. Omdahl; Appendix : rational inquiry and the force of scientific data : are new horizons emerging?; by John Ankerberg and John Weldon; 1; 2 N2 - Is there evidence from natural science for an intelligent creator of the universe? For a century the reigning scientific view has been that God is not necessary to account for the existence of the world and of life. Evolutionary theory is said to be all that is needed to explain how we got here. In addition, many theistic evolutionists contend that God likely used many of the mechanisms of evolution to achieve his will. In this book J. P. Moreland and a panel of scholars assert that there is actually substantial evidence pointing in a different direction. First, they consider philosophical arguments about whether it is possible for us to know if an intelligent designer had a hand in creation ER -