List of works on intelligent design

This is a list of works addressing the subject or the themes of intelligent design.

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  • David L. Bender (1988). Science and Religion; Opposing Viewpoints. St. Paul, Minnesota: Greenhaven Press. ISBN 0-89908-406-0
  • Carl Johan Calleman (2009). The Purposeful Universe: How Quantum Theory and Mayan Cosmology Explain the Origin and Evolution of Life. Bear & Company. ISBN 1-59143-104-2
  • Michael Corey (2007). The God Hypothesis: Discovering Design in Our Just Right Goldilocks Universe. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 0-7425-5889-4
  • Paul Davies (2007). Cosmic Jackpot The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?. ISBN 978-0-618-59226-5
  • James Le Fanu (2009). Why Us?: How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves. Pantheon. ISBN 0-375-42198-X
  • Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini. (2011) What Darwin Got Wrong. Picador; Reprint edition ISBN 0-312-68066-X
  • James N. Gardner (2003). Biocosm: The New Scientific Theory of Evolution: Intelligent Life Is the Architect of the Universe. Inner Ocean Publishing. ISBN 1-930722-26-5
  • Brian Goodwin (2001). How the Leopard Changed its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-08809-8
  • Amit Goswami (2008). Creative Evolution: A Physicist's Resolution Between Darwinism and Intelligent Design. Quest Books; 1st Quest Ed edition. ISBN 0-8356-0858-1
  • George Greenstein (1988). The Symbiotic Universe: Life and mind in the Cosmos. Morrow. ISBN 0-688-07604-1
  • Bernard Haisch (2010). The Purpose-Guided Universe: Believing In Einstein, Darwin, and God. New Page Books; 1 edition. ISBN 1-60163-122-7
  • Francis Hitching (1983). The Neck of the Giraffe or Where Darwin Went Wrong. Signet. ISBN 0-451-62232-4
  • Mae-Wan Ho (1984). Beyond Neo-Darwinism: An Introduction to the New Evolutionary Paradigm. Academic Pr. ISBN 0-12-350080-X
  • Ervin Laszlo (1987). Evolution: The Grand Synthesis. Shambhala. ISBN 0-87773-389-9
  • Lebo, Lauri (May 13, 2008). The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America. New Press. p. 256 pages. ISBN 978-1-59558-208-9.
  • Albert Low (2008). The Origin of Human Nature: A Zen Buddhist Looks at Evolution. Sussex Academic Pr. ISBN 1-84519-260-5
  • Richard Milton (2000). Shattering the Myths of Darwinism. Park Street Press. ISBN 0-89281-884-0
  • Norman Macbeth (1971). Darwin Retried. Boston: Harvard Common Press
  • Johnjoe McFadden (2002). Quantum Evolution: How Physics' Weirdest Theory Explains Life's Biggest Mystery. W. W. Norton and Company. ISBN 0-393-32310-2
  • Numbers, Ronald L. (2006). The Creationists: from scientific creationism to intelligent design. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-02339-0. OCLC 69734583.
  • Humes, Edward (2008). Monkey girl : evolution, education, religion, and the battle for America's soul. New York: Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0-06-088549-6. OCLC 156815003.
  • Robert G. B. Reid (1985). Evolutionary Theory: The Unfinished Synthesis. Cornell Univ Pr. ISBN 0-8014-1831-3
  • Stanley Salthe (2003). Development and Evolution: Complexity and Change in Biology. The MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-51383-8
  • James A. Shapiro (2011). Evolution: A View from the 21st Century. ISBN 0-13-278093-3
  • Robert Shapiro (1986). Origins; A Skeptic's Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth. New York, N.Y.: Summit
  • Lee Spetner (1998). Not by Chance!: Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution. Judaica Press. ISBN 1-880582-24-4
  • David Stove (2006). Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity and Other Fables of Evolution. ISBN 1-59403-140-1
  • Gordon Rattray Taylor (1984). The Great Evolution Mystery. Publisher Abacus. ISBN 0-349-12917-7
  • Duane Thurman (1978). How To Think About Evolution. Downers Grove, Illinois: The InterVarsity Press. ISBN 0-87784-701-0
  • Hubert Yockey (2011). Information Theory, Evolution, and The Origin of Life. Cambridge University Press; Reissue edition. ISBN 0-521-16958-5

Neutral non-fiction anthologies
  • Robert Pennock ed. Intelligent Design Creationism and its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives, MIT Press (2002). ISBN 0-262-66124-1
  1. Intelligent Design Creationism's "Wedge Strategy"
    1. The Wedge at Work: How Intelligent Design Creationism is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream, by Barbara Forrest
  2. Johnson's Critique of Evolutionary Naturalism
    1. Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism, by Phillip E. Johnson
    2. Naturalism, Evidence and Creationism: The Case of Phillip Johnson, by Robert T. Pennock
    3. Response to Pennock by Phillip E. Johnson
    4. Reply: Johnson's Reason in the Balance, by Robert T. Pennock
  3. A Theological Conflict?: Evolution vs. the Bible
    1. When Faith and Reason Clash: Evolution and the Bible, by Alvin Plantinga
    2. When Faith and Reason Cooperate, by Howard J. Van Till
    3. Plantinga's Defense of Special Creation, by Ernan McMullin
    4. Evolution, Neutrality, and Antecedent Probability: A Reply to McMullin and Van Till, by Alvin Plantinga
  4. Intelligent Design's Scientific Claims
    1. Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference, by Michael J. Behe
    2. Born Again Creationism, by Philip Kitcher
    3. Biology Remystified: The Scientific Claims of the New Creationists, by Matthew J. Brauer & Daniel R. Brumbaugh
  5. Plantinga's Critique of Naturalism & Evolution
    1. Methodological Naturalism?, by Alvin Plantinga
    2. Methodological Naturalism Under Attack, by Michael Ruse
    3. Plantinga's Case Against Naturalistic Epistemology, by Evan Fales
    4. Plantinga's Probability Arguments Against Evolutionary Naturalism, by Branden Fitelson & Elliott Sober
  6. Intelligent Design Creationism vs. Theistic Evolutionism
    1. Creator or "Blind Watchmaker?", by Phillip E. Johnson
    2. Phillip Johnson on Trial: A Critique of His Critique of Darwin, by Nancey Murphy
    3. Welcoming the 'Disguised Friend' – Darwinism and Divinity, by Arthur Peacocke
    4. The Creation: Intelligently Designed or Optimally Equipped?, by Howard J. Van Till
    5. Is Theism Compatible with Evolution?, by Roy Clouser
  7. Intelligent Design and Information
    1. Is Genetic Information Irreducible?, by Phillip E. Johnson
    2. Reply to Phillip Johnson, by Richard Dawkins
    3. Reply to Johnson, by George C. Williams
    4. Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information, by William A. Dembski
    5. Information and the Argument from Design, by Peter Godfrey-Smith
    6. How Not to Detect Design, by Branden Fitelson, Christopher Stephens & Elliott Sober
    7. The 'Information Challenge', by Richard Dawkins
  8. Intelligent Design Theorists Turn the Tables
    1. Who's Got the Magic?, by William A. Dembski
    2. The Wizards of ID: Reply to Dembski, by Robert T. Pennock
    3. The Panda's Peculiar Thumb, by Stephen Jay Gould
    4. The Role of Theology in Current Evolutionary Reasoning, by Paul A. Nelson
    5. Appealing to Ignorance Behind the Cloak of Ambiguity, by Kelly C. Smith
    6. Nonoverlapping Magisteria, by Stephen Jay Gould
  9. Creationism and Education
    1. Why Creationism Should Not Be Taught in the Public Schools, by Robert T. Pennock
    2. Creation and Evolution: A Modest Proposal, by Alvin Plantinga
    3. Reply to Plantinga's 'Modest Proposal', by Robert T. Pennock

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Fiction

The concept of life having been designed or manipulated is a staple of science fiction. Aspects of Intelligent Design are explored in:

  • Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer. 2000. ISBN 0-312-86713-1 A science fiction novel in which an intelligent designer is manipulating reality solely for the benefit of human-kind and three other sentient species residing in our galaxy.
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey; in the movie, human evolution is accelerated and guided by an unspecified force, assumed by many to be aliens. In the novel based on the film, human evolution is accelerated and guided by aliens.
  • In the Doctor Who episode Image of the Fendahl, evolution on Earth was guided by an alien, to allow it to feed on humans.
  • The novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus prominently features an intelligently (but imperfectly) designed creature, whose faults stem from the inherent flaws of its creator, Victor Frankenstein.
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reveals that the Earth was built by the Magratheans who were commissioned by mice and designed by the computer Deep Thought to find the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.
  • In the movie Mission to Mars, highly evolved aliens accelerated and guided human evolution.
  • Rama Revealed by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee; in this final novel of a series, it is revealed that the (mostly offstage) Ramans create universes and test their inhabitants in an attempt to maximise the quantity of consciousness within them.
  • According to the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Chase", Star Trek aliens all look similar because life was seeded on different planets by highly evolved aliens.
  • In the Well World series, by Jack L. Chalker, aliens known as Markovians evolved and grew to the point where their computers, by means of a universal mathematics, were able to create/produce/do anything they wanted. Bored with being virtual gods, they decided their race had been flawed in some manner. So they designed a new universe and Markovian volunteers chose to become all of the new races therein, including humans, to see if perhaps another race could attain the perfection they believed existed but which they themselves failed to achieve.
  • Roddy M. Bullock (2006). The Cave Painting: A Parable of Science. Access Research Network. ISBN 978-1-931796-27-9. Archived from the original on 2006-10-13. Retrieved 2006-10-23.
  • Dean Koontz (2009). Breathless. New York: Bantam Publishing. ISBN 978-0-553-80715-8. References the mathematical calculation of the improbability of life.
  • "Surface Tension" is a 1952 science fiction short story by James Blish. A human colonization ship crash-lands and they genetically engineer their descendants into something that can survive. They create a race of microscopic aquatic humanoids and metal plates of knowledge for them. Blish coined the term pantropy to refer to this concept, as opposed to terraforming.
  • "Microcosmic God" is a 1941 science fiction novelette by Theodore Sturgeon. A scientist develops a synthetic life form, which he calls "Neoterics", that live at a greatly accelerated rate and produce many generations over a short time so he can use their inventions. The scientist asserts his authority by killing half the population whenever they disobey his "divine" orders.
  • Prometheus is a 2012 science fiction film that follows the journey of the Earth spaceship Prometheus as it follows an ancient star map which takes them to humanity's creators or "Engineers".

See also

References
  1. Mere Creation: Science, Faith & Intelligent Design Archived 2007-10-24 at the Wayback Machine
  2. A War on Science: The theory of evolution is under attack from a controversial new idea called intelligent design. But is it science?, BBC Horizon Science& Nature: TV & Radio Followup.
  3. Britons unconvinced on evolution, BBC News, 26 January 2006
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