Debating design : from Darwin to DNA / edited by William A. Dembski, Michael Ruse.

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

xiii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Papers from a conference, entitled Design and its Critics, held at Concordia University, Mequon, Wis., June 22-24, 2000.

Introduction. General introduction / William Dembski and Michael Ruse -- The argument from design : a brief history / Michael Ruse -- Who's afraid of ID? : a survey of the intelligent design movement / Angus Menuge -- pt. I: Darwinism. Design without designer : Darwin's greatest discovery / Francisco J. Ayala -- The flagellum unspun : the collapse of "irreducible complexity" / Kenneth R. Miller -- The design argument / Elliott Sober -- DNA by design? : Stephen Meyer and the return of the god hypothesis / Robert T. Pennock -- pt. II: Complex self-organization. Prolegomenon to a general biology / Stuart Kauffman -- Darwinism, design, and complex systems dynamics / Bruce H. Weber and David J. Depew -- Emergent complexity, teleology, and the arrow of time / Paul Davies -- The emergence of biological value / James Barham -- pt. III: Theistic evolution. Darwin, design, and divine providence / John F. Haught -- The inbuilt potentiality of creation / John Polkinghorne -- Theistic evolution / Keith Ward -- Intelligent design : some geological, historical, and theological questions / Michael Roberts -- The argument from laws of nature reassessed / Richard Swinburne -- pt. IV: Intelligent design. The logical underpinnings of intelligent design / William A. Dembski -- Information, entropy, and the origin of life / Walter L. Bradley -- Irreducible complexity : obstacle to Darwinian evolution / Michael J. Behe -- The Cambrian information explosion : evidence for intelligent design / Stephen C. Meyer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.