Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology

Dembski, William A.; Behe, Michael

ISBN 10: 083082314X / ISBN 13: 9780830823147

Published by IVP Academic, 2002

Seller Inventory # 083082314X-4-36406372

Synopsis:

<p><ul class='ivp-award'><li>Voted a 2000 Book of the Year by <em>Christianity Today</em></li></ul>The Intelligent Design movement is three things:<ul><li>a scientific research program for investigating intelligent causes</li><li>an intellectual movement that challenges naturalistic evolutionary theories</li><li>a way of understanding divine action</li></ul>Although the fast-growing movement has gained considerable grassroots support, many scientists and theologians remain skeptical about its merits. Scientists worry that it's bad science (merely creationism in disguise) and theologians worry that it's bad theology (misunderstanding divine action). In this book William Dembski addresses these concerns and brilliantly argues that intelligentdesign provides a crucial link between science and theology.Various chapters creatively and powerfully address intelligent discernment of divine action in nature, why the significane of miracles should be reconsidered, and the demise and unansweredquestions of British natural theology. Effectively challenging the hegemony of naturalism and reinstating design within science, Dembski shows how intelligent design can be unpacked as a theory of information.<em>Intelligent Design</em> is a pivotal, synthesizing work from a thinker whom Phillip Johnson calls "one of the most important of the design theorists who are sparking a scientific revolution by legitimating the concept of intelligent design in science."</p>

About the Author: <p>William Dembski (Ph.D., mathematics, University of Chicago; Ph.D., philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago) is senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. He has previously taught at Northwestern University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Dallas. He has done postdoctoral work in mathematics at MIT, in physics at the University of Chicago, and in computer science at Princeton University, and he has been a National Science Foundation doctoral and postdoctoral fellow. Dembski has written numerous scholarly articles and is the author of the critically acclaimed <em>The Design Inference</em> (Cambridge), <em>Intelligent Design</em> (InterVarsity Press) and <em>No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence</em> (Rowman and Littlefield).</p>

Bibliographic Details

Title: Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between ...
Publisher: IVP Academic
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: paperback
Condition: Fair