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The Intelligent Design
movement is three things:
- a scientific research
program for investigating intelligent causes
- an intellectual
movement that challenges naturalistic evolutionary theories
- a way of understanding
divine action
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 intelligent
design provides a crucial link between science and theology.
Various chapters creatively
and powerfully address intelligent discernment of divine action in nature,
why the significance of miracles should be reconsidered, and the demise
and unanswered questions 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.
Intelligent
Design 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."
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