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Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism

Edited by Andrew J. Petto & Laurie R. Godfrey

©2007, W.W. Norton, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10110 USA

Available Now. ISBN 0-393-05090-4

Contents

Preface: Why We Did It Again by Laurie R. Godfrey and Andrew J. Petto

1. Introduction: The Problems with Creationism by Massimo Pigliucci 

Section 1—Creationism and “Intelligent Design”

2. Darwinism, Creationism and “Intelligent Design” by Ronald L. Numbers 

3. Creationism Lite: “Intelligent Design” as the New Anti-evolutionism by Eugenie C. Scott

4. Wielding the Wedge : Keeping Anti-evolutionism Alive  by John R. Cole

Section 2—Scientific Perspectives

5. Physics, Cosmology, and the New Creationism by Victor J. Stenger

6. The Ages of the Earth, Solar System, Galaxy, and Universe by G. Brent Dalrymple

7. Creationism and the Origin of Life: Did It All Begin in a “Warm Little Pond?” by Antonio Lazcano

8. “Transitional Forms” Versus Transitional Features by Kevin Padian and Kenneth D. Angielczyk 

9. Biological Complexity by Robert Dorit

10. Logic and Math Turn to Smoke and Mirrors: William Dembski’s Design Inference by Wesley R. Elsberry

11. Human Emergence: Natural Process or Divine Creation? by C. Loring Brace

Section 3—Understanding Science

12. God of the Gaps: The Argument from Ignorance and the Limits of Methodological Naturalism by Robert T. Pennock

13. Is Evolution “Only a Theory?”: Scientific Methodologies and Evolutionary Biology by Norman A. Johnson

14. The Invisible Bible: The Logic of Creation Science by J. Michael Plavcan

15. Why Target Evolution: The Problem of Authority by Alice Beck Kehoe

16. Why Teach Evolution? by Andrew J. Petto and Laurie R. Godfrey