Suggested Reading in Darwinian Dissent, Intelligent Design / History of Science / Conscious Universe

This list has an anti-naturalist, anti-materialist emphasis. These books help to illustrate how science has arrived at its current materialist status and what is missing from that viewpoint.


Gregory Bateson, et. al.
Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred.
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences).
Sacred Unity.

Michael Behe, et al.
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge To Evolution.
Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe.

David Bohm
Thought As a System.
The Undivided Universe.
Wholeness and the Implicate Order.

Deepak Chopra, et. al.
The Conscious Universe.
The Cosmic Mind and the Submanifest Order of Being.
The Quantum Physics of Soul and Spirit.
Science and Soul: The Survival of Consciousness After Death.

Michael Cremo
Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race (1998)
The Hidden History of the Human Race (Condensed Edition) (1999)
Forbidden Archeology's Impact: How a Controversial New Book Shocked the Scientific Community and Became an Underground Classic (1998)
Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory (2003)

William Dembski, et. al.
The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities.
The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design.
How Blind Is the Watchmaker?: Nature's Design & the Limits of Naturalistic Science.
Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology.
Mere Creation: Science, Faith & Intelligent Design.
Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists.
No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without Intelligence.
Signs of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design.

John Davidson
Natural Creation and the Formative Mind.
The Web of Life.

Michael Denton
Evolution: A Theory in Crisis.
Nature’s Destiny: How The Laws Of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe.

Phillip Johnson
Darwin on Trial.
Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds.
Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law & Culture.
Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education.
The Right Questions: Truth, Meaning & Public Debate.
The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism.

Robert C. Koons
Paradoxes of Belief and Strategic Rationality.
Realism Regained: An Exact Theory of Causation, Teleology, and the Mind.

Thomas Kuhn, et. al.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn's Philosophy of Science.

James Lovelock
The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth.
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth.
Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine.
Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist.

Lynn Margulis
Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution (Science Masters Series).

Richard Milton
Alternative Science: Challenging the Myths of the Scientific Establishment.
Shattering the Myths of Darwinism.

P.D. Ouspensky (The Fourth Way), et. al.
In Search of the Miraculous.
New Model of the Universe.
Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution.
Tertium Organum.
Theory of Celestial Influence: Man, the Universe, and Cosmic Mystery, Rodney Collin

Dean Overman
A Case Against Accident and Self-Organization.

Rupert Sheldrake
A New Science of Life.
The Presence of the Past.
The Rebirth of Nature.

Jonathan Wells
Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth: Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong.

Chandra Wickramasinghe
Cosmic Dragons: Life and Death on Our Planet.
Space and Eternal Life: A Dialogue Between Daisaku Ikeda and Chandra Wickramasinghe.


More Readings in Darwinian Dissent
Not by Chance: Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution, Lee M. Spetner
By Design: Science and the Search for God, Larry Witham
Where Darwin Meets the Bible: Creationists and Evolutionists in America, Larry Witham
Law, Darwinism & Public Education: The Establishment Clause and the Challenge of Intelligent Design, Francis Beckwith
Getting the Facts Straight: A Viewer's Guide to PBS's Evolution, The Discovery Institute
Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale, Judith Hooper


More Readings in Scientific Perspectives
Paradigms & Barriers: How Habits of Mind Govern Scientific Beliefs, Howard Margolis
Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives, Robert T. Pennock (Ed.)
Nature, Design, and Science: The Status of Design in Natural Science (Suny Series in Philosophy and Biology.
The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia
Naturalism: A Critical Analysis (Routledge Studies in 20th Century Philosophy).
World Without Design: The Ontological Consequence of Naturalism, Michael C. Rea.
Naturalism Defeated: Essays on Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism, James K. Beilby.
The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe, Eric J. Lerner


More Readings in Conscious Universe
The World is Sound, Nada Brahma.
The Holographic Universe, Michael Talbot.
The Living Energy Universe, Gary Schwartz, et. al.
The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe, Lynne McTaggart
Infinite Mind: Science of Human Vibrations of Consciousness, Valerie V. Hunt
The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena, Dean Radin
Miracles of Mind: Exploring Nonlocal Consciousness and Spiritual Healing, Russell Targ, et. al.


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