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Intelligent design (Teleology)

Here are entered works on the theory that there are elements of design in the natural world, especially the biological world, that indicate its creation by an intelligent agent.

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• Natural theology
• Philosophy of nature
• Teleology

• Creationism

• Intelligent design (Teleology) -- Study and teaching

• Design, Intelligent (Teleology)

• In the Beginning Was Information: A Scientist Explains the Incredible Design in Nature (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2005), by Werner Gitt (illustrated HTML with commentary at answersingenesis.org)

• In the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania: Case no. 04cv2688; Judge Jones; Tammy Kitzmiller, et al., Plaintiffs v. Dover Area School District, et al., Defendants (2005), by John E. Jones (PDF at uscourts.gov)

• Intelligent Design in Public School Science Curricula: A Legal Guidebook (Richardson, TX: Foundation for Thought and Ethics, c1999), by David K. DeWolf, Stephen C. Meyer, and Mark E. DeForrest (HTML at arn.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The New Answers Book: Over 25 Questions on Creation/Evolution and the Bible (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2006), ed. by Ken Ham (illustrated HTML with commentary at answersingenesis.org)
• Taking Back Astronomy (electronic hyperlinked edition; originally published 2006), by Jason Lisle (illustrated HTML with commentary at answersingenesis.org)
• War of the Worldviews (Petersburg, KY: Answers in Genesis, 2005), contrib. by Ken Ham, Bodie Hodge, Carl Kerby, Jason Lisle, Stacia McKeever, David Menton, Terry Mortenson, Georgia Purdom, and Mike Riddle (illustrated HTML with commentary at answersingenesis.org)
• In Six Days: Why 50 Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation (chapters under "Contents" in reverse order; Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2003), ed. by John F. Ashton (HTML with commentary in answersingenesis.org)
• Why Won't They Listen? The Power of Creation Evangelism (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2003), by Ken Ham (illustrated HTML with commentary at answersingenesis.org)
• The Revolution Against Evolution (third edition; c2013), by Douglas B. Sharp (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Evolution Exposed (hypertext edition; chapters may be in reverse order; ca. 2007), by Roger Patterson (illustrated HTML with commentary at answersingenesis.org)
• Science, Evolution, and Creationism (2007), by National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Lie: Evolution (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2000), by Ken Ham (HTML with commentary at answersingenesis.org)
• Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences (second edition, 1999), by National Academy of Sciences (HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)
• Is the World Running Down? Crisis in the Christian Worldview (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, c1988), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• Atlas of Creation (4 volumes; 2006-2012), by Hârun Yahya
  • Volume I: multiple formats at harunyahya.info
  • Volume II: multiple formats at harunyahya.info
  • Volume III: multiple formats at harunyahya.info
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at harunyahya.info
• Darwin's Enigma (c1988), by Luther D. Sunderland (illustrated HTML at creationism.org)
• Evolution: Guilty as Charged, by Frederick C. Kubicek (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood (8th edition), by Walter V. Brown (illustrated HTML at creationscience.com)
• Jesus Christ, Creator, by Kelly L. Segraves (HTML at parentcompany.com)
• No Sense of Obligation: Science and Religion in an Impersonal Universe (c2001), by Matt Young (PDF with commentary at mines.edu)
• A New Look at an Old Earth (online edition, c1997), by Don Stoner (HTML at answers.org)
• Hell and the High Schools: Christ or Evolution, Which? (Kansas City, MO: Western Baptist Pub. Co., 1923), by T. T. Martin (PDF at umn.edu)
• It's a Young World After All: Exciting Evidences for Recent Creation (updated and hyperlinked web version), by Paul D. Ackerman, illust. by Sue Paar (HTML at creationism.org)

• Two Decades of Creationism (c1984), by Walter Lang and Valeria Lang (illustrated HTML at creationism.org)

• Daylight (Catholic creationist newsletter and magazine; issues online from 1977-2006) (partial serial archives)
• Creation/Evolution (1980-1996) (full serial archives)

• The Evolutionary Tales: Rhyme and Reason on Creation/Evolution (electronic edition, 2011), by Ronald L. Ecker (HTML at ronaldecker.com)

• In the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania: Case no. 04cv2688; Judge Jones; Tammy Kitzmiller, et al., Plaintiffs v. Dover Area School District, et al., Defendants (2005), by John E. Jones (PDF at uscourts.gov)

• Intelligent Design in Public School Science Curricula: A Legal Guidebook (Richardson, TX: Foundation for Thought and Ethics, c1999), by David K. DeWolf, Stephen C. Meyer, and Mark E. DeForrest (HTML at arn.org)

• Evolution, Creationism and Public Schools: Surveying What Texas Scientists Think About Educating Our Kids in the 21st Century (Austin: Texas Freedom Network Education Fund, 2008), by Raymond A. Eve and Chawki A. Belhadi (PDF at tfn.org)

• Natural Theology: Selections (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1963), by William Paley, ed. by Frederick Ferré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mistakes God Did Not Make (8th edition; ca. 1940), by Bertram Henry Shadduck, illust. by F. W. Alden (page images at creationism.org)
• God Revealed in the Process of Creation, by James B. Walker (page images at MOA)
• Natural Religion (London: Macmillan and Co., 1882), by J. R. Seeley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Natural Theology (second edition, 1902), by Bernard Boedder (HTML at Notre Dame)
• Natural Theology, by Luther Lee (page images at MOA)
• Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity (12th edition, 1809), by William Paley (HTML at Darwin Online)
• The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise: A Fragment, by Charles Babbage (HTML at Victorian Web)
• The Philosophy of Natural Theology: An Essay, in Confutation of the Scepticism of the Present Day, Which Obtained a Prize at Oxford, Nov. 26th, 1872 (New York: A. D. F. Randolph and Co., 1875), by William Jackson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Principles of Natural Theology (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., ca. 1922), by George Hayward Joyce (HTML at Notre Dame)
• Through Nature to God (1900), by John Fiske (page images at Google; US access only)
• A Christian Natural Theology, Based on the Thought of Alfred North Whitehead, by John B. Cobb (HTML at religion-online.org)
• Christianity the Religion of Nature, by Andrew P. Peabody (page images at MOA)
• Natural Law in the Spiritual World, by Henry Drummond (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Nature and the Supernatural, As Together Constituting the One System of God, by Horace Bushnell (page images at MOA)
• The Sympathy of Religions: An Address, Delivered at Horticultural Hall, Boston, February 6, 1870 (Boston: Reprinted from The Radical, 1871), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The World and the Individual: Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Aberdeen (2 volumes; New York and London: Macmillan, 1901), by Josiah Royce
  • first series (The Fourt Historical Conceptions of Being): multiple formats at archive.org
  • second series (Nature, Man and the Moral Order): multiple formats at archive.org
• Darwinism in Morals, and Other Essays (London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1872), by Frances Power Cobbe (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Cure of Deism: or, The Mediatorial Scheme by Jesus Christ the Only True Religion (2 volumes; London: Printed for the author, 1737), by Elisha Smith
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, by David Hume (Gutenberg text)
• The Existence of God, by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon, ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
• The Folewer to the Donet (EETS original series #164; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, 1924), by Reginald Pecock, ed. by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God, by Samuel Clarke (multiple formats at CCEL)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.