The Intelligent Design Debate and the Temptation of Scientism

ISBN-13: 9780367881580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 226 str.

Erkki Vesa Rope Kojonen

Opis

The controversy over Intelligent Design (ID) has now continued for over two decades, with no signs of ending. A balanced and deep analysis of a controversial debate, this volume argues that beliefs about the purposiveness or non-purposiveness of nature should not be based merely on science. Rather, the philosophical and theological nature of such q

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Mapping the Landscape of the Debate 3. The Cosmological Debate 4. The Biological Debate 5. Intelligent Design as Science or Pseudoscience? 6. The Designer of the Gaps? 7. The Intuitive Possibility of Design 8. The Logic of Design Arguments 9. Design, Natural Evil and Bad Design 10. Intelligent Design and Theistic Evolutionism Afterword: Towards Better Discussion of Intelligent Design

O autorze

Dr. Erkki Vesa Rope Kojonen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Theology. He is also the editor of the Finnish Science and Theology magazine Areiopagi.fi, and has participated widely in discussions on science and theology both in his home country and internationally. His research interests also include the general discussion between faith and reason, philosophy of science as well as theology more generally. He was born in 1982, is married and lives in Espoo, Finland with his wife and three children.