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List of works on intelligent design

This is a list of works addressing the subject or the themes of intelligent design.

Non-fiction

Supportive non-fiction

Supportive non-fiction books

Supportive non-fiction anthologies

Supportive non-fiction papers and articles

Supportive non-fiction films

Neutral non-fiction

Neutral non-fiction books

  • David L. Bender (1988). Science and Religion; Opposing Viewpoints. St. Paul, Minnesota: Greenhaven Press.
  • Carl Johan Calleman (2009). The Purposeful Universe: How Quantum Theory and Mayan Cosmology Explain the Origin and Evolution of Life. Bear & Company.
  • Michael Corey (2007). The God Hypothesis: Discovering Design in Our Just Right Goldilocks Universe. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
  • Paul Davies (2007). Cosmic Jackpot The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life?.
  • James Le Fanu (2009). Why Us?: How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves. Pantheon.
  • Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini. (2011) What Darwin Got Wrong. Picador; Reprint edition
  • James N. Gardner (2003). Biocosm: The New Scientific Theory of Evolution: Intelligent Life Is the Architect of the Universe. Inner Ocean Publishing.
  • Brian Goodwin (2001). How the Leopard Changed its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity. Princeton University Press.
  • Amit Goswami (2008). Creative Evolution: A Physicist's Resolution Between Darwinism and Intelligent Design. Quest Books; 1st Quest Ed edition.
  • George Greenstein (1988). The Symbiotic Universe: Life and mind in the Cosmos. Morrow.
  • Bernard Haisch (2010). The Purpose-Guided Universe: Believing In Einstein, Darwin, and God. New Page Books; 1 edition.
  • Francis Hitching (1983). The Neck of the Giraffe or Where Darwin Went Wrong. Signet.
  • Mae-Wan Ho (1984). Beyond Neo-Darwinism: An Introduction to the New Evolutionary Paradigm. Academic Pr.
  • Ervin Laszlo (1987). Evolution: The Grand Synthesis. Shambhala.
  • Albert Low (2008). The Origin of Human Nature: A Zen Buddhist Looks at Evolution. Sussex Academic Pr.
  • Richard Milton (2000). Shattering the Myths of Darwinism. Park Street Press.
  • Norman Macbeth (1971). Darwin Retried. Boston: Harvard Common Press
  • Johnjoe McFadden (2002). Quantum Evolution: How Physics' Weirdest Theory Explains Life's Biggest Mystery. W. W. Norton and Company.
  • Robert G. B. Reid (1985). Evolutionary Theory: The Unfinished Synthesis. Cornell Univ Pr.
  • Stanley Salthe (1993). Development and Evolution: Complexity and Change in Biology. The MIT Press.
  • James A. Shapiro (2011). Evolution: A View from the 21st Century.
  • Robert Shapiro (1986). Origins; A Skeptic's Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth. New York, N.Y.: Summit
  • Lee Spetner (1998). Not by Chance!: Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution. Judaica Press.
  • David Stove (2006). Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity and Other Fables of Evolution.
  • Gordon Rattray Taylor (1984). The Great Evolution Mystery. Publisher Abacus.
  • Duane Thurman (1978). How To Think About Evolution. Downers Grove, Illinois: The InterVarsity Press.
  • Hubert Yockey (2011). Information Theory, Evolution, and The Origin of Life. Cambridge University Press; Reissue edition.

Neutral non-fiction anthologies

  • Robert Pennock ed. Intelligent Design Creationism and its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives, MIT Press (2002).
  1. Intelligent Design Creationism's "Wedge Strategy"
  2. The Wedge at Work: How Intelligent Design Creationism is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream, by Barbara Forrest
  3. Johnson's Critique of Evolutionary Naturalism
  4. Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism, by Phillip E. Johnson
  5. Naturalism, Evidence and Creationism: The Case of Phillip Johnson, by Robert T. Pennock
  6. Response to Pennock by Phillip E. Johnson
  7. Reply: Johnson's Reason in the Balance, by Robert T. Pennock
  8. A Theological Conflict?: Evolution vs. the Bible
  9. When Faith and Reason Clash: Evolution and the Bible, by Alvin Plantinga
  10. When Faith and Reason Cooperate, by Howard J. Van Till
  11. Plantinga's Defense of Special Creation, by Ernan McMullin
  12. Evolution, Neutrality, and Antecedent Probability: A Reply to McMullin and Van Till, by Alvin Plantinga
  13. Intelligent Design's Scientific Claims
  14. Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference, by Michael J. Behe
  15. Born Again Creationism, by Philip Kitcher
  16. Biology Remystified: The Scientific Claims of the New Creationists, by Matthew J. Brauer & Daniel R. Brumbaugh
  17. Plantinga's Critique of Naturalism & Evolution
  18. Methodological Naturalism?, by Alvin Plantinga
  19. Methodological Naturalism Under Attack, by Michael Ruse
  20. Plantinga's Case Against Naturalistic Epistemology, by Evan Fales
  21. Plantinga's Probability Arguments Against Evolutionary Naturalism, by Branden Fitelson & Elliott Sober
  22. Intelligent Design Creationism vs. Theistic Evolutionism
  23. Creator or "Blind Watchmaker?", by Phillip E. Johnson
  24. Phillip Johnson on Trial: A Critique of His Critique of Darwin, by Nancey Murphy
  25. Welcoming the 'Disguised Friend' – Darwinism and Divinity, by Arthur Peacocke
  26. The Creation: Intelligently Designed or Optimally Equipped?, by Howard J. Van Till
  27. Is Theism Compatible with Evolution?, by Roy Clouser
  28. Intelligent Design and Information
  29. Is Genetic Information Irreducible?, by Phillip E. Johnson
  30. Reply to Phillip Johnson, by Richard Dawkins
  31. Reply to Johnson, by George C. Williams
  32. Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information, by William A. Dembski
  33. Information and the Argument from Design, by Peter Godfrey-Smith
  34. How Not to Detect Design, by Branden Fitelson, Christopher Stephens & Elliott Sober
  35. The 'Information Challenge', by Richard Dawkins
  36. Intelligent Design Theorists Turn the Tables
  37. Who's Got the Magic?, by William A. Dembski
  38. The Wizards of ID: Reply to Dembski, by Robert T. Pennock
  39. The Panda's Peculiar Thumb, by Stephen Jay Gould
  40. The Role of Theology in Current Evolutionary Reasoning, by Paul A. Nelson
  41. Appealing to Ignorance Behind the Cloak of Ambiguity, by Kelly C. Smith
  42. Nonoverlapping Magisteria, by Stephen Jay Gould
  43. Creationism and Education
  44. Why Creationism Should Not Be Taught in the Public Schools, by Robert T. Pennock
  45. Creation and Evolution: A Modest Proposal, by Alvin Plantinga
  46. Reply to Plantinga's 'Modest Proposal', by Robert T. Pennock

Neutral non-fiction papers and articles

Critical non-fiction

Critical non-fiction books

  • Richard Dawkins. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design, W. W. Norton & Company (1996).
  • Richard Dawkins. The God Delusion, Houghton Mifflin (October 18, 2006).
  • Richard Dawkins. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (2009)
  • Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross. , Oxford University Press (2004).
  • Ernst Mayr. One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought, Harvard University Press (1993).
  • Kenneth R. Miller. Finding Darwin's God, HarperCollins (1999).
  • National Academy of Sciences. Science and Creationism, National Academies Press (1999).
  • Chris Mooney. The Republican War on Science, Basic Books (2005).
  • Robert Pennock. Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism, MIT Press (1999).
  • Mark Perakh. Unintelligent Design, Prometheus (Dec 2003).
  • Andrew J. Petto (Editor), Laurie R. Godfrey (Editor). Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism, W. W. Norton (2007).
  • Massimo Pigliucci. Denying Evolution: Creationism, Scientism, and the Nature of Science, Sinauer Associates, Incorporated (2002).
  • Michael Shermer, Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design (2007).
  • Niall Shanks. God, the Devil, and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory, Oxford University Press (2004).
  • Robyn Williams. Unintelligent Design, Why God isn't as smart as she thinks she is, Allen & Unwin (2006).
  • Matt Young, Taner Edis eds. Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism, Rutgers University Press (2004).
  • Joan Roughgarden Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist Island Press (August 1, 2006)
  • Francis Collins The Language of God Free Press (July 17, 2007)

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Critical non-fiction papers and articles

Critical non-fiction films

Fiction

The concept of life having been designed or manipulated is a staple of science fiction. Aspects of Intelligent Design are explored in:

  • Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer. 2000. A science fiction novel in which an intelligent designer is manipulating reality solely for the benefit of human-kind and three other sentient species residing in our galaxy.
  • '; in the movie, human evolution is accelerated and guided by an unspecified force, assumed by many to be aliens. In the , human evolution is accelerated and guided by aliens.
  • In the Doctor Who episode Image of the Fendahl, evolution on Earth was guided by an alien, to allow it to feed on humans.
  • The novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus prominently features an intelligently (but imperfectly) designed creature, whose faults stem from the inherent flaws of its creator, Victor Frankenstein.
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reveals that the Earth was built by the Magratheans who were commissioned by mice and designed by the computer Deep Thought to find the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.
  • In the movie Mission to Mars, highly evolved aliens accelerated and guided human evolution.
  • Rama Revealed by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee; in this final novel of a series, it is revealed that the (mostly offstage) Ramans create universes and test their inhabitants in an attempt to maximise the quantity of consciousness within them.
  • According to the ' episode "The Chase", Star Trek aliens all look similar because life was seeded on different planets by highly evolved aliens.
  • In the Well World series, by Jack L. Chalker, aliens known as Markovians evolved and grew to the point where their computers, by means of a universal mathematics, were able to create/produce/do anything they wanted. Bored with being virtual gods, they decided their race had been flawed in some manner. So they designed a new universe and Markovian volunteers chose to become all of the new races therein, including humans, to see if perhaps another race could attain the perfection they believed existed but which they themselves failed to achieve.
  • References the mathematical calculation of the improbability of life.
  • "Surface Tension" is a 1952 science fiction short story by James Blish. A human colonization ship crash-lands and they genetically engineer their descendants into something that can survive. They create a race of microscopic aquatic humanoids and metal plates of knowledge for them. Blish coined the term pantropy to refer to this concept, as opposed to terraforming.
  • "Microcosmic God" is a 1941 science fiction novelette by Theodore Sturgeon. A scientist develops a synthetic life form, which he calls "Neoterics", that live at a greatly accelerated rate and produce many generations over a short time so he can use their inventions. The scientist asserts his authority by killing half the population whenever they disobey his "divine" orders.
  • Prometheus is a 2012 science fiction film that follows the journey of the Earth spaceship Prometheus as it follows an ancient star map which takes them to humanity's creators or "Engineers".

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