The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities (Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory)

How can we identify events due to intelligent causes and distinguish them from events due to undirected natural causes? If we lack a causal theory how can we determine whether an intelligent cause acted? This book presents a reliable method for detecting intelligent causes: the design inference. The design inference uncovers intelligent causes by isolating the key trademark of intelligent causes: specified events of small probability. Design inferences can be found in a range of scientific pursuits from forensic science to research into the origins of life to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. This challenging and provocative book will be read with particular interest by philosophers of science and religion, other philosophers concerned with epistemology and logic, probability and complexity theorists, and statisticians.

Science & Math

Dembski, William A.

History & Philosophy

Cambridge University Press

How can we identify events due to intelligent causes and distinguish them from events due to undirected natural causes? If we lack a causal theory how can we determine whether an intelligent cause acted? This book presents a reliable method for detecting intelligent causes: the design inference. The design inference uncovers intelligent causes by isolating the key trademark of intelligent causes: specified events of small probability. Design inferences can be found in a range of scientific pursuits from forensic science to research into the origins of life to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. This challenging and provocative book will be read with particular interest by philosophers of science and religion, other philosophers concerned with epistemology and logic, probability and complexity theorists, and statisticians.

History

This compact guide lays out the basics of Intelligent Design, popularly known as ID. William Dembski, the dean of the intelligent-design movement, and Sean McDowell especially target readers whose understanding may have been confused by educational bias and one-sided arguments and attacks.
Commonsense and no-nonsense, with pointed examples, the authors explain
<ul>
<li>the central theories of ID, showing why the presence of information and meaningful complexity require the involvement of intelligence</li>
<li>why ID adheres to the scientific method and is a valid field of scientific inquiry</li>
<li>why scientific evidence increasingly conflicts with evolutionary theories</li>
<li>how both evolutionary theory and ID have religious/philosophical underpinnings, and why this causes so much controversy</li>
<li>how both systems of thought have radical implications for our culture—and what readers can do about it</li>
</ul>
Clarifying crucial issues, this key resource gives nonspecialists a solid grasp of one of today's foundational religious-scientific-cultural concepts.

Understanding Intelligent Design: Everything You Need to Know in Plain Language (ConversantLife.com)

Religion & Spirituality

McDowell, Sean

Christian Books & Bibles

Harvest House Publishers

For a thing to be real, it must be able to communicate with other things. If this is so, then the problem of being receives a straightforward resolution: to be is to be in communion. So the fundamental science, indeed the science that needs to underwrite all other sciences, is a theory of communication. Within such a theory of communication the proper object of study becomes not isolated particles but the information that passes between entities. In Being as Communion philosopher and mathematician William Dembski provides a non-technical overview of his work on information. Dembski attempts to make good on the promise of John Wheeler, Paul Davies, and others that information is poised to replace matter as the primary stuff of reality. With profound implications for theology and metaphysics, Being as Communion develops a relational ontology that is at once congenial to science and open to teleology in nature. All those interested in the intersections of theology, philosophy and science should read this book.

Being as Communion: The Metaphysics of Information (Ashgate Science and Religion Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Routledge

Being as Communion (Routledge Science and Religion Series)

Theodicy attempts to resolve how a good God and evil world can coexist. The neo-atheist view in this debate has dominated recent bestseller lists through books like The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins), God Is Not Great (Christopher Hitchens), and The End of Faith (Samuel Harris). And their popularity illuminates a changing mental environment wherein people are asking harder questions about divine goodness. Surprisingly, these books please intelligent design champion William Dembski, because “They would be unnecessary if Christianity were not again a live issue.”
Entering the conversation, Dembski’s provocative The End of Christianity embraces the challenge to formulate a theodicy that is both faithful to Christian orthodoxy and credible to the new mental environment. He writes to make peace with three claims: (1) God by wisdom created the world out of nothing. (2) God exercises particular providence in the world. (3) All evil in the world ultimately traces back to human sin. In the process, Dembski brings the reader to a fresh understanding of what “the end (result) of Christianity” really means: the radical realignment of our thinking so that we see God’s goodness in creation despite the distorting effects of sin in our hearts and evil in the world.
Endorsements:
"The End of Christianity towers over the others in profundity and quality . . . I have read very few books with its deep of insight, breadth of scholarly interaction, and significance. From now on, no one who is working on a Christian treatment of the problem of evil can afford to neglect this book." 
—J. P. Moreland, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Biola University and author of The God Question
A thought-provoking and well-worth reading book by a brilliant evangelical thinker on the perennial and puzzling problem of how to explain physical evil in the world before the Fall. I could not put it down. It has so much intellectually stimulating material in it.
—Norman Geisler"Believers have badly needed the kind of compelling case for biblical theodicy provided in Dr. Dembski's new book-grounded, as it is, not in traditional philosophical arguments (often not merely obtuse but irrelevant in today's scientific climate), but in intelligent design, of which Dr. Dembski is the world's foremost academic proponent."
—John Warwick Montgomery"William Dembski is a first-rate scholar who has focused his attention on the perennial challenge to Christianity: Why does God allow such evil and cruelty in the world? While staying well within the bounds of Christian orthodoxy, Dembski offers fresh insights that can truly be described as groundbreaking. Whether you end up embracing his solution or not, The End of Christianity is a book all Christians-and even non-Christians-need to wrestle with. We enthusiastically recommend it."
—Josh and Sean McDowell, co-authors of Evidence for the Resurrection and More Than A Carpenter

The End of Christianity: Finding a Good God in an Evil World

B&H Academic

Diseño Inteligente Un puente entre la Ciencia y la Teología Aunque el movimiento del Diseño Inteligenteha crecido rápidamente y ha ganado apoyo popular, muchos científicos y teólogos están preocupados por sus legítimos méritos. Los científicos están preocupados de que se trate de mala ciencia (mero creacionismo disfrazado) y los teólogos están preocupados de que se trate de mala teología (un entendimiento equivocado de la acción divina). En este libro, el Dr. Dembski se refiere a estas preocupaciones y de manera brillante propone que el diseño inteligente proporciona un enlace crítico entre la ciencia y la teología. Introducción por Michael Behe.

Diseno Inteligente: Un Puente Entre La Ciencia y La Teologia (Spanish Edition)

Vida

Voted a 2000 Book of the Year by Christianity Today! 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 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 significane 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."

Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology

Intervarsity Pr

<ul><li>Voted a 2000 Book of the Year by Christianity Today</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 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 significane 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."

Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science Theology

Behe, Michael

IVP Academic

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The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities (Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory)

The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities (Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory)

The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities (Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory)

Understanding Intelligent Design: Everything You Need to Know in Plain Language (ConversantLife.com)

Being as Communion: The Metaphysics of Information (Ashgate Science and Religion Series)

Being as Communion (Routledge Science and Religion Series)

The End of Christianity: Finding a Good God in an Evil World

Diseno Inteligente: Un Puente Entre La Ciencia y La Teologia (Spanish Edition)

Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology

Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science Theology