God and design : the teleological argument and modern science / [edited by] Neil A. Manson.

Recent discoveries in physics, cosmology, and biochemistry have captured the public imagination and made the Design Argument - the theory that God created the world according to a specific plan - the object of renewed scientific and philosophical interest. This accessible but serious introduction to...

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Other Authors: Manson, Neil A., 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • The design argument / Elliott Sober
  • The meaning of design / John Leslie
  • The design inference : old wine in new wineskins / Robert O'Connor
  • God by design? / Jan Narveson
  • The argument to God from fine-tuning reassessed / Richard Swinburne
  • Perceiving design / Del Ratzsch
  • The appearance of design in physics and cosmology / Paul Davies
  • Design and the anthropic fine-tuning of the universe / William Lane Craig
  • Evidence for fine-tuning / Robin Collins
  • Probabilities and the fine-tuning argument : a skeptical view / Timothy McGrew, Lydia McGrew, and Eric Vestrup
  • Other universes : a scientific perspective / Martin Rees
  • Too many universes / D.H. Mellor
  • Fine-tuning and multiple universes / Roger White
  • The chance of the gaps / William Dembski
  • The modern intelligent design hypothesis : breaking rules / Michael Behe
  • Answering the biochemical argument from design / Kenneth R. Miller
  • Modern biologists and the argument from design / Michael Ruse
  • The paradoxes of evolution : inevitable humans in a lonely universe? / Simon Conway Morris
  • The compatibility of Darwinism and design / Peter van Inwagen.