Discovery Institute Senior Fellows William A. Dembski and Jonathan Wells are the listed authors of this edition. The preface of The Design of Life is by Jon A. Buell, president of the Foundation for Thought and Ethics, which is the publisher of The Design of Life.
The book includes 100 pages of footnotes and notes.
The book tries to address some novel areas. For example, it states that intelligent design does not require miracles or the supernatural, but still does not rely on "materialistic explanations":
“Supernatural explanations invoke miracles and therefore are not properly part of science... “xplanations that call on intelligent causes require no miracles but cannot be reduced to materialistic explanations.”
Also, the book tries to explain away the loss of intelligent design in the Kitzmiller v. Dover decision:
“In the end, not any court rulings or public policies or Hollywood films, will decide the merit of intelligent design.”
A blog associated with the book began on December 17, 2007.
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