Notes

I.  Philosophical presuppositions / faith commitments

II.  Two ways of viewing this debate

III.  The nature of science

IV.  Protecting the integrity of science

V.  Trends with scientific progress / God of the gaps

VI. Detecting design:  objective or subjective inference?

 
 
 

Readings
 

Required:

 
1.  Darwinism's rules of reasoning, P. Johnson*

2.  Naturalism, Methodological & Otherwise, P. Johnson, (appendix in "Reason in the Balance")

3.  Of Naturalism and Negativity, in Tower of Babel,   R. Pennock

4.  Radical intersubjectivity:  Why naturalism is an assumption necessary for doing
science,   Frederick Grinnell*

5.   Excerpt from Part 1 "Conceptual bases of experimental design and analysis".  Designing experiments and analyzing data: A model comparison perspective.  Maxwell, S. E., & Delaney, H. D. (2003).  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2nd ed. in press.

6.  Historical science, experimental science, and the scientific method, Geology, Nov. 2001., vol. 29, 987-990,  C. Cleland

 

Optional:

4.  Response to Frederick Grinnell,  Peter van Inwagen*

5.   The methodological equivalence of design and descent, S. Meyer    view article

6.  A case against accident and self organization:  Part I:  Introduction, Part II:  Verbal and mathematical logic relating to the questions presented, D. Overmann
 

*Proceedings of "Darwinism:  Scientific inference or philosphical preference?", SMU  3/92

 

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