Design Discourse in Abrahamic Traditions : History, Metaphysics, and Science (Hardcover)

Introduction

E. V. R. Kojonen & Shoaib A. Malik

1. The Epistemological Impact of the Argument from Design in Philo of Alexandria

Ludovica De Luca

2. Early Christian Design Discourse: Perceiving the Creator through the Creation

E. V. R. Kojonen

3. Preaching Design: Theology and Rhetoric of Divine Order in Augustine’s Sermons

Timo Nisula

4 Wise Design and the Metaphysics of Natural Evil: Al-M?tur?d?’s Divinely Existentiated and Causally Coherent World

Ramon Harvey and David Solomon Jalajel

5 Ibn Taymiyya & Design-Discourse ? Perceiving Design through the Natural World & Scripture Jamie B. Turner

6. Neo-Thomism on Evolution

Ignacio Silva

7. A Teleological Argument from Natural Selection

Seth Hart

8. Design and the Laws of Nature

Jeffrey Koperski

9. Design-Argument-Inspired, Midrashic Epistemology of Religion

Samuel Lebens

10. Cosmic Fine-Tuning and Biological Design Arguments: Friends, Enemies, or What?

Hans W. Vodder

11. An Islamic Engagement with Stephen Meyer’s Return of the God Hypothesis

Shoaib A. Malik, Mohammed Imran Khan, and Yasmeen Mukadam

12. From Design to God ? What Fine-Tuning Design Arguments Tell Us about the Designer
Robin Collins