Contributors -- vii

Preface -- pg. xii

Acknowledgments -- xv

Introduction: What Are We Talking About? -- pg. 1 Robert B. Stewart

1. Intelligent Design: A Dialogue -- pg. 12 WIlliam A Dembski and Michael Ruse

2. The Evolution Wars: Who is Fighting with Whom about What? -- pg. 44 Martinez Hewlett

3. Naturalism and Intelligent Design -- pg. 58 William Lane Craig

4. The Collapse of Intelligent Design -- pg. 72 Wesley R. Elsberry and Nicholas Matzke

5. Intelligent Design, Religious Motives, and the Constitution's Religion Clauses -- pg. 90 Francis J. Beckwith

6. Dawkins, God, and the Scientific Enterprise: Reflections on the Appeal to Darwinism in Fundamentalist Atheism -- pg. 101 Alister E. McGrath

7. Intelligent Design and Evolutionary Psychology as Research Programs: A Comparison of Their Most Plausible Specifications -- pg.112 J.P. Moreland

8. Because "Cause" Makes Sense: The Anthropic Cosmological Principle and Quantum Cosmocausality -- pg. 139 Hal N. Ostrander

9. Science, Divine Action, and the Intelligent Design Movement: A Defense of Theistic Evolution -- pg. 154 Nancy Murphy

10. The Universe as Creation -- pg. 166 John Polkkinghorne

11. Intelligent Design: Some Critical Reflections on the Current Debate -- pg. 179 John C. Lennox

12. Flat or Round? The Sixth-Century Debate over the Shape of the Earth -- pg.196 Ken Keathley

Afterword: Faith in God and the World of Nature -- pg. 210 Wolfhart Pannenberg

Notes -- pg. 219

Index -- pg.253

This Volume Highlights points of agreement and disagreement between two leading conversants on the subject of Intelligent Design and the sufficiency of a Darwinian explanation of evolution. The subject of Intelligent Design has raised considerable interest and controversy over the meaning and relationship of science and religious conviction. Here two leading intellectuals on the subject - William A. Dembski, senior fellow with the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, and Michael Ruse, an internationally noted philosopher of science - engage the issues. Their dialogue at the Greer-Heard Forum allows the reader to see in print how both positions are best articulated. The volume also provides the reader with an interdisciplinary assessment of Intelligent Design and Darwinian theory, enabling interested readers to assess and decide for themselves. Along with Dembski, Ruse, and volume editor Robert Stewart, the interdisciplinary team features scientists, philosophers, and theologians and includes several of the most noted religious thinkers of our age on this topic.