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Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing

41 reviews

ISI Books, 2004

Outstanding
This collection is must reading for anyone who has an interest in thinking about Darwinism and well-written responses to various types of Darwinism. No cheap shots or half-baked arguments found here. All are carefully selected pieces - and each is worth taking the time to mentally engage.

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

12 reviews
William A. Dembski, Sean McDowell

Harvest House Publishers, 2008

Love it
It's easy to be a critic. You don't even have to buy the book. Just browse the TOC and spit out your rhetoric. You can go on for 10,000 words and make people think you actually held the book in your hand. I bought it, I read it. I liked it. It was the easiest book I have found on Intelligent Design. I generally have a hard time reading Dembski. But this book was an easy read. And it ...

Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology

68 reviews
William A. Dembski

InterVarsity Press, 2007

Intelligent Design Rocks and/or Rolls!
This is a response to other reviewers who claim that evolution is not "random." They try to say that natural selection is not random, therefore evolution is not random. The reality is that natural selection operates because of random, unpredictable environmental changes. The environment changes in a random, unpredictable manner WITH RESPECT TO organism need. Thus, natural selection is just as ...

Darwin Strikes Back: Defending the Science of Intelligent Design

24 reviews
Thomas Woodward

Baker Books, 2006

Awesome Piece of Work
When I first started reading this book, I asked myself why I had spent more money to buy another book which exposes the frailty of Darwinian or neo-Darwinian evolution. I'd already researched the topic quite thoroughly in order to write a novel about it. As a result of my attitude, I was a little lukewarm as I began to turn the pages of this work. As I continued to progress into the interior of ...

Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists

19 reviews
Benjamin Wiker, William Dembski

InterVarsity Press, 2002

Epicurus set in motion an intellectual movement that Charles Darwin brought to completion
According to John Maynard Keynes, great intellectual and cultural movements frequently trace back to thinkers who worked in obscurity and are now long forgotten. But some thinkers are both famous and influential. This book focuses on two such thinkers, one largely forgotten, the other a household name. The largely forgotten thinker is Epicurus. The household name is Charles Darwin. The two are ...

The Design Revolution: Answering The Toughest Questions About Intelligent Design

65 reviews
William A. Dembski, Charles W. Colson

IVP Books, 2004

Gives clarifications
In this well-written book W.Dembski answers many of the toughest questions that are often asked about Intelligent Design. He points out that ID is not based on a religious or theological position, but is based on the scientific process of studying the evidence, no matter where it leads. He clarifies what ID is, and what it is not. He makes the important distinction between detecting design and ...

The Design of Life: Discovering Signs of Intelligence In Biological Systems

82 reviews
William A. Dembski, Jonathan Wells

Foundation for Thought and Ethics, 2007

THE DESIGN OF LIFE by William Dembski & Jonathan Wells(Review)
This book is a classic. It is interesting and complete review of the interface between Intelligent Design and Evolution. It discusses in detail the following areas: Human Origins, Genetics and Macroevolution, the Fossil Record, the Origin of Species, Similar Features, Irreducible Complexity, Specified Complexity, the Origin of Life, and Meanings of "Evolution." I enjoyed reading it, and value ...

Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe (Proceedings of the Wethersfield Institute)

34 reviews
Michael Behe

Ignatius Press, 2000

Finally, a scholarly yet accesible counterpoint
Taken together, Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe and Darwin's Black Box make up the best challenge to currently accepted theories I've read. It is about time we stop protecting theories, and start exploring the vast new evidence being uncovered by the expanding frontiers of science. That is what these books do. They point out the new discoveries in several areas of science, which ...

How to be an Intellectually Fulfilled Atheist (Or Not)
William A. Dembski, Jonathan Wells

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2008

?Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin,? writes Richard Dawkins, ?Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.? This little book shows that atheism must seek intellectual fulfillment elsewhere decisively demonstrating the need for intelligence in explaining life?s origin. This is the best overview of why traditional origin-of-life research has crashed and burned and why intelligent design is ...

What Darwin Didn't Know: A Doctor Dissects the Theory of Evolution

20 reviews
Geoffrey Simmons, William Dembski

Harvest House Publishers, 2004

Fascinating journey into the human body.
The ancients had it all wrong. They dubbed the Pyramid of Giza, and Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Colossus of Rhodes, etc to be the Seven wonders of the world. Little did they know that to find the biggest wonder in the world, all they had to do was look inside themselves. That ability had to wait for the technology that would allow humans to discover what a marvel they really are. As the ...

The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities (Cambridge Studies in Probability, ...

33 reviews
William A. Dembski

Cambridge University Press, 2006

A Pleasant Surprise: Readable, Reasonable, and Precise
Some time after the publication of this book I felt I had to read it since it was making such a stir and I'm doing my PhD in Philosophy focusing on Probability Theory and Philosophy of Religion. I had tried to avoid the fray, but I couldn't put it off any longer. I was very happy to find the book immanently readable (some training in mathematical logic is very helpful indeed, but even the ...

Diseno Inteligente: Un Puente Entre La Ciencia y La Teologia
William A. Dembski

Vida, 2005

SPANISH EDITION. This book demonstrates the relationship between science and theology.

5 Minute Apologist: Maximum Truth In Minimum Time (5 Minute)

2 reviews
Rick Cornish

NavPress Publishing Group, 2005

This is the power to defend your Faith
If you ever had a problem defending your faith in Christ or never fully had the evidence to understand the Truth, this book will give you extra power of understanding and to erase any and all of your doubts about the true Faith above all others. This book should be carried along with you and your Holy Bible. I love the resource efforts it took to create such a masterful piece of work. Go Dr. ...

Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA

10 reviews

Cambridge University Press, 2007

It didn't happen by chance!
Today I asked my 10 year old, "If I placed all the delicate parts of a watch in a bowl and just left them there, how many years do you suppose it would take to turn into a watch?" Without any hesitation she replied, "Never, that would be impossible." I said to her, "Would you believe that there are some people out there who think that humans and this complex world we live in, just happened!" ...

Signs of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design

29 reviews

Brazos Press, 2001

Hateful Reviewers
Have you ever noticed that when evolutionists comment on ID books they are almost always hatefull, angry, and rude? (No, not always. I know.) ID proponents rarely sugar-coat a responce to the evolutionists, but I have rarely ever (if at all) read a mean, vengeful review by an ID proponent. I'm sure they exist so don't bother pulling out your quotes. Just notice how vicious the anti-ID people ...

The Patristic Understanding of Creation: An Anthology of Writings from the Church Fathers on Creation and ...

1 review

Erasmus Press, 2008

An Excellent Collection that Somehow Misses the Mark
The story of creation has always been at the heart of the Christian story. Indeed, one can argue that creation stories are at the heart of most religious traditions because they offer us a vision of where we are coming from and frame a vision of where we might go. But in our culture, the Genesis version of the story is often cited as an alternative to Darwinism, the creation myth embraced by ...

Darwin's Nemesis: Phillip Johnson And the Intelligent Design Movement

9 reviews

IVP Academic, 2006

It must have hit a nerve
I am shocked by the vial hate-speech and mindless ad hominem attacks in the "reviews" printed below. They demonstrate just the kind of vicious closed-minded nonsense that ID proponents seek to dispel. To quote one extreme example (you can read it in context in John Kwok's "review" below): "I find the notion of a Festschrift published in honor of Professor Johnson as absurd as a group of Neo-Nazis ...

No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence

28 reviews
William A. Dembski

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007

A Mathematical Proof of Intelligent Design
No Free Lunch, the sequel to mathematician and philosopher William Dembski's Cambridge University Press book The Design Inference, explores key questions about the origin of specified complexity. Dembski explains that the Darwinian search mechanism of random mutation coupled with natural selection is incapable of generating novel complex, specified information (CSI). This observation ...

Unapologetic Apologetics: Meeting the Challenges of Theological Studies

12 reviews

InterVarsity Press, 2001

An eye opener
I have only read sections of this book, which is not in my major area of interest, but found the following of much interest. When William Dembski attempted to reactivate interest in the field of apologetics at Princeton Theological Seminary, including support for Intelligent Design and a critique of Darwinism, he faced two lawsuits, and was "threatened with physical violence, accused of racism ...

Mere Creation; Science, Faith & Intelligent Design

24 reviews

InterVarsity Press, 1998

A Comprehensive Volume Applying Intelligent Design to Many Fields of Science
This volume contains essays by numerous Discovery Fellows who presented at an early intelligent design conference at Biola University in 1996. As Henry F. Shaefer III explains in the forward, the conference was not a typical "creationist" event, as "virtually none of the conference participants were creationists of the sort one frequently reads about in the popular press" and "a very large ...

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