Foreword | |
Preface | |
Historical Beginnings | |
Recognizing the Divine Finger | |
Homer Simpson's Prayer | |
Signs in Decision-Making | |
Ordinary Versus Extraordinary Signs | |
Moses and Pharoah | |
The Philistines and the Ark | |
The Sign of the Resurrection | |
In Defense of Premodernity | |
The Critique of Miracles | |
Miracles as Evidence for Faith | |
Spinoza's Rejection of Miracles | |
Schleiermacher's Assimilation of Spinoza | |
Unpacking Schleiermacher's Naturalistic Critique | |
Critiquing the Naturalistic Critique | |
The Significane of the Naturalistic Critique | |
The Demise of British Natural Theology | |
Pauli's Sneer | |
From Contrivance to Natural Law | |
From Natural Law to Agnosticism | |
Darwin and His Theory | |
Design and Miracles | |
The Presupposition of Positivism | |
A Theory of Design | |
Naturalism & Its Cure | |
Nature and Creation | |
The Root of Idolatry | |
Naturalism Within Western Culture | |
The Cure: Intelligent Design | |
Not Theistic Evolution | |
The Importance of Definitions | |
A New Generation of Scholars | |
Reinstating Design Within Science | |
Design's Departure from Science | |
Why Reinstate Design? | |
The Complexity-Specification Criterion | |
Specification | |
False Negatives and False Positives | |
Why the Criterion Works | |
Irreducible Complexity | |
So What? | |
Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information | |
Complex Specified Information | |
Generating Information via Law | |
Generating Information via Chance | |
Generating Information via Law and Chance | |
The Law of Conservation of Information | |
Applying the Theory to Evolutionary Biology | |
Reconceptualizing Evolutionary Biology | |
Bridging Science & Theology | |
Science & Theology in Mutual Support | |
Two Windows on Reality | |
Epistemic Support | |
Rational Compulsion | |
Explanatory Power | |
The Big Bang and Divine Creation | |
Christ as the Completion of Science | |
The Act of Creation | |
Creation as a Divine Gift | |
Naturalism's Challenge to Creation | |
Computational Reductionism | |
Our Empirical Selves Versus Our Actual Selves | |
The Resurgence of Design | |
The Creation of the World | |
The Intelligibility of the World | |
Creativity, Divine and Human | |
Appendix: Objections to Design | |
The God of the Gaps | |
Intentionality Versus Design | |
Scientific Creationism | |
But Is It Science? | |
Dysteleology | |
Just an Anthropic Coincidence | |
Applying the Math to Biology | |
David Hume's Objections | |
Mundane Versus Trancendant Designers | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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