Pt. 1. Basic distinctions. Intelligent design Creation Scientific creationism Disguised theology Religious motivation Optimal design The design argument pt. 2. Detecting design. The design inference Chance and necessity Specified complexity The explanatory filter Reliability of the criterion Objectivity and subjectivity Assertibility The chance of the gaps pt. 3. Information and matter Information theory Biology's information problem Information ex Nihilo Nature's receptivity The law of conservation of information pt. 4. Issues arising from naturalism. Varieties of naturalism Interventionism Miracles and counterfactual substitution The supernatural Embodies and unembodied designers The designer regress Selective skepticism The progress of science
pt. 5. Theoretical challenges to intelligent design. Argument from ignorance
Hume, Reid and signs of intelligence
Design by elimination versus design by comparison
The demand for details : Darwinism's Tu quoque
Displacement and the no free lunch principle
pt. 6. A new kind of science. Aspirations
The significance of Michael Behe
Making intelligent design a disciplined science.
