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Is there evidence from natural science for an intelligent creator of the universe?For a century the reigning scientific view has been that God is not necessary to account for the existence of the world and of life. Evolutionary theory is said to be all that is needed to explain how we got here. In addition, many theistic evolutionists contend that God likely used many of the mechanisms of evolution to achieve his will.In this book J. P. Moreland and a panel of scholars assert that there is actually substantial evidence pointing in a different direction. First, they consider philosophical arguments about whether it is possible for us to know if an intelligent designer had a hand in creation. Then they look directly at four different areas of science: the origin of life, the origin of major groups of organisms, the origin of human language and the origin and formation of the universe.The team of experts for this work includes a philosopher, a mathematician, a physicist, a linguist, a theologian, a biophysicist, an astronomer, a chemist and a paleontologist.Their data and their conclusions challenge the assumptions of many and offer the foundation for a new paradigm of scientific thinking.… (more)
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However, there are respects in which this book is very much like familiar anti-evolutionary literature.
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One feature of the book which I have mentioned at various points is that it does not form a unified and coherent whole: the argument in one part very often pulls against the argument in another part. This feature is, I think, related to a more fundamental drawback of the book, which is, once again, a common feature of the anti-evolution literature--viz. that it nowhere makes any attempt to give a detailed statement of the theory which is supposed to be in competition with evolutionary theory. Although many of the authors make claims about the ability of 'theistic science' to explain this or that, we are never given any clear statement of this wonderful theory--and so we have no way of even beginning to assess these claims. Even if this could be in part justified by the claim that 'theistic science' is in its infancy--a claim which is in any case in tension with the claim that 'methodological naturalism' is a recent invention which was used to overthrow well-established and long-standing 'theistic science'--it's hard to see how claims about what 'theistic science' can explain can be justified unless someone, somewhere, has a well-worked-out theory of this kind.
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The methodological equivalence of design & descent / by Stephen C. Meyer --
On the very possibility of intelligent design / by William A. Dembski --
Astronomical evidences for a personal, transcendent God / by Hugh Ross --
Information & the origin of life / by Walter L. Bradley & Charles B. Thaxton --
The origin of life's major groups / by Kurt P. Wise --
Origin of the human language capacity : in whose image? / by John W. Oller Jr. & John L. Omdahl --
Appendix : rational inquiry & the force of scientific data : are new horizons emerging? / by John Ankerberg & John Weldon.