Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology by William A. Dembski

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The Intelligent design movement is three things: a scientific research program for investigating intelligent causes, an intellectual movement that challenges naturalistic evolutionary theories, and a way of understanding divine action. Although the fast-growing movement has gained considerable grassroots support, many scientists and theologians remain skeptical about its merits. Scientists worry that it is bad science (merely creationism in disguise) and theologians worry that it is bad theology (misunderstanding divine action). In this book William Dembski addresses just such concerns and brilliantly argues that intelligent design provides a crucial link between science and theology.

Various chapters creatively and powerfully address intelligent discernment of divine action in nature, why the significance of miracles should be reconsidered, and the demise and unanswered questions of British natural theology. Effectively challenging the hegemony of naturalism and reinstating design within science, Dembski shows how intelligent design can be unpacked as a theory of information.

Intelligent Design is a pivotal, synthesizing work from a thinker whom Phillip Johnson calls “one of the most important of the ‘design’ theorists who are sparking a scientific revolution by legitimating the concept of intelligent design in science.”