Two bad ways to attack intelligent design and two good ones

Zygon

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 433-449

  Koperski, Jeffrey ^a  

^a SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservatism; Dovertrial; Intelligent Design; Methodological naturalism; Theory change

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449172553     PISSN: 05912385     EISSN: 14679744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2008.00926.x     Document Type: Article

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