October 26, 2007

MINNEAPOLIS – The newly released Intelligent Design: William A. Dembski and Michael Ruse in Dialogue edited by Robert B. Stewart highlights points of agreement and disagreement between two leading conversants on the subject of Intelligent Design and the sufficiency of a Darwinian Explanation of evolution.

The subject of Intelligent Design has raised considerable interest and controversy over the meaning and relationship of science and religious conviction. Here two leading intellectuals on the subject-William A. Dembski, senior fellow with the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, and Michael Ruse, an internationally noted philosopher of science-engage the issues.

Their dialogue at the Greer-Heard Forum allows the reader to see in print how both positions are best articulated.

The volume also provides the reader with an interdisciplinary assessment of Intelligent Design and Darwinian theory, enabling interested readers to assess and decide for themselves. Along with Dembski, Ruse, and volume editor Robert Stewart, the interdisciplinary team features scientists, philosophers, and theologians and includes several of the most noted religious thinkers of our age on this topic.

Participants include:
Martinez Hewlett – University of Arizona
William Lane Craig – Talbot School of Theology
Wesley R. Elsberry – National Center for Science Education
Francis J. Beckwith – Baylor University
Nicholas Matzke – National Center for Science Education
Alister McGrath – Oxford University
J.P. Moreland – Talbot School of Theology
Hal Ostrander – Brewton-Parker College
Nancey Murphy – Fuller Theological Seminary
Sir John Polkinghorne – Liverpool Cathedral
John Lennox – Green College, Oxford University
Kenneth Keathley – Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Wolfhart Pannenberg – University of Munich

Robert B. Stewart is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Theology at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, where he holds the Greer-Heard Chair of Faith and Culture and directs the annual Greer-Heard Point-Counterpoint Forum.

Intelligent Design: William A. Dembski and Michael Ruse in Dialogue, Edited by Robert B. Stewart, Item No: 978-0-8006-6218-9, Format: Paperback, 256 pages, 6 x 9 inches, Price: $22.00.

To order Intelligent Design: William A. Dembski and Michael Ruse in Dialogue please call Fortress Press at 1-800-328-4648 or visit the Web site at http://www.fortresspress.com/.

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