Beginner’s Guide to Intelligent Design

I enjoy reading William Dembski’s blog, Uncommon Descent. For those of you who may not have been over there for awhile, it recently got a new face-lift so go on over and check it out. While going through their archives I noted that in response to a request from a grad student in the field of philosophy for a “philosophically educated beginner’s guide to ID” Dembski posted this impromptu reading list:

• Ben Wiker, Moral Darwinism (IVP)
• Bill Dembski, The Design Revolution (IVP)
• Angus Menuge, Agents Under Fire (Rowman & Littlefield)
• Michael Rea, World Without Design (Oxford)
• William Lane Craig & JP Moreland (eds.), Naturalism: A Critical Analysis (Routledge)
• Del Ratzsch, Nature, Design, and Science (SUNY)
• Neil Manson (ed.), God and Design (Routledge)
• Thomas Reid, Lectures on Natural Theology (UPA, edited by Elmer Duncan)

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Naturalism Defeated?: Essays on Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism

Over at Evangelical Outpost, Joe Carter has written a post on Science vs. Naturalism: Why Naturalism is a Self-Refuting Philosophy. (HT: Wayne Shih)

I strongly recommend the book Naturalism Defeated?: Essays on Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism which addresses this topic more completely.

Contributors to this book include William Ramsey, Jerry Fodor, Evan Fales, Michael Bergmann, Ernest Sosa, James Van Cleve, Timothy O’Connor, Richard Otte, W.J. Talbott, Trenton Merricks, William Alston, and Alvin Plantinga.

This book isn’t exactly a page-turner, but it is a very important work for those who are considering the intellectual foundations of evolutionary science.

Creed or Chaos?, by Dorothy Sayers

I have posted a review at the Christian Book Lounge of Dorothy Sayers’ book Creed or Chaos? Why Christians Must Choose Either Dogma or Disaster (Or, Why It Really Does Matter What You Believe) .

The book is very quotable and would make a nice addition to your theological library.