文档介绍：Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics
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Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics
Philosophical, Theological, and Scienti®c
Perspectives
Robert T. Pennock
A Bradford Book
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
( 2001 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pennock, Robert T.
Intelligent design creationism and its critics : philosophical, theological, and
scienti®c perspectives / Robert T. Pennock.
p. cm.
``A Bradford book.''
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-16204-0 (alk. paper) Ð ISBN 0-262-66124-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Creationism. 2. Evolution (Biology) 3. Evolution (Biology)ÐReligious
aspectsÐChristianity. 4. Religion and science. 5. ScienceÐPhilosophy.
I. Title.
2001
Ðdc21 2001031276
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
Contributors xvii
I Intelligent Design Creationism's ``Wedge Strategy'' 1
1 The Wedge at Work: How Intelligent Design Creationism
Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic
Mainstream 5
Barbara Forrest
II Johnson's Critique of Evolutionary Naturalism 55
2 Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism 59
Phillip E. Johnson
3 Naturalism, Evidence, and Creationism: The Case of Phillip
Johnson 77
Robert T. Pennock
4 Response to Pennock 99
Phillip E. Johnson
5 Reply: Johnson's Reason in the Balance 103
Robert T. Pennock
III A Theological Con¯ict? Evolution vs. the Bible 109
6 When Faith and Reason Clash: Evolution and the Bible 113
Alvin Plantinga
7 When Faith a