The Intelligent Design Debate and the Temptation of Scientism (Ashgate Science and Religion Series)

Kojonen, Erkki Vesa Rope

ISBN 10: 1472472500 / ISBN 13: 9781472472502

Published by Routledge, 2016

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pp. 234.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Intelligent Design Debate and the Temptation of Scientism (Ashgate Science and Religion Series)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472472500
• ISBN 13: 9781472472502
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The controversy over Intelligent Design (ID) has now continued for over two decades, with no signs of ending. For its defenders, ID is revolutionary new science, and its opposition is merely ideological. For its critics, ID is both bad science and bad theology. But the polemical nature of the debate makes it difficult to understand the nature of the arguments on all sides. A balanced and deep analysis of a controversial debate, this volume argues that beliefs about the purposiveness or non-purposiveness of nature should not be based merely on science. Rather, the philosophical and theological nature of such questions should be openly acknowledged.

About the Author

Dr. Erkki Vesa Rope Kojonen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Theology. He is also the editor of the Finnish Science and Theology magazine Areiopagi.fi, and has participated widely in discussions on science and theology both in his home country and internationally. His research interests also include the general discussion between faith and reason, philosophy of science as well as theology more generally. He was born in 1982, is married and lives in Espoo, Finland with his wife and three children.