Origin(s) of Design in Nature

<p>Introduction, Joseph Seckbach; Foreword, Julian Chela-Flores; Preface, Gerald Schroeder; PART I: ORIGIN OF DESIGN<br>The Initial Low Gravitational Entropy of the Universe as the Origin of Design in Nature, C. Lineweaver<br>On the Biological Origin of Design in Nature, A. Grandpierre<br>Creativity in Nature, S. McGrew<br>PART II: PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF DESIGN<br>Plato’s Pythagorean Cosmos: Order and Chaos in the Intelligence of Natural Design, M. Faller<br>War or Peace? Huxley and Kropotkin’s Battle Over the Design of Virtue, O.Harman<br>Free Will in God’s Dice Game, M Schrader<br>Does Biology Need a New Theory of Explanation? A biological perspective on Kant’s Critique of Teleological Judgment, C. Chetland<br>Pragmatism, Inquiry, and Design: A Dynamic Approach, T. Solymosi<br>The Natural Design of Intelligence in Dewey’s Philosophy, J. Shook<br>PART III: THEOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF DESIGN<br>The Best Mislaid Plans: A Religious Approach to the Question of the Planning of Reality, Y. Rozenson<br>Judaism and Evolution in Four Dimensions: Biological, Spiritual, Cultural, and Intellectual, S. Glicksberg<br>Random Natural Laws Versus Direct Trends: A Cabbalistic Interpretation Based on the Teachings of Rabbi Kook, D. Berger<br>The Identity of Designer and Design, K. Klostermaier<br>In the Beginning There Was Lightning: Fulguro-Genesis and Eduard Loewenthal’s Religion of Religions, E. Rees-Dessauer<br>Structure and Creativeness: A Reinterpretation of the Neo-Confucian Binary Category Li and Qi, J. Rosker<br>Evolution: The Biblical Accounts of Life’s Development, G. Schroeder<br>PART IV: DARWINISM AS THE BACKBONE OF THE LIFE SCIENCES<br>Design and disorder: Gould, adaptationism and evolutionary psychiatry, P. Adriaens<br>Architecture and Design Among Plants and Animals: Convergent and Divergent Developmental Mechanisms, C. Bishop, M. Galway, and D. Garbary<br />The Lingual Taste Palillae: A Delicate and Complicated Nature’s Design for Taste Modalities Perception, N. Gadoth and E. Mass<br>Divine Genesis, Evolution and Astrobiology, J. Seckbach<br>Consistent Patterns of Statistical Distributions in Natural Ecological Communities: Lake Phytoplankton, Y, Kamenir<br>Coupling of growth, differentiation and morphogenesis: an integrated approach to design in embryogenesis, R. Gordon and V. Fleury<br>Interior Cell Design: VICKZ Proteins Mediate RNA Localization And Cell Function, J. Yisraeli<br>Organic Codes and the Origin of Language, M. Barbieri<br>Mechano-Sensing in Embryonic Biochemical and Morphologic Design: Evolutionary Perspectives in Primary Organisms Emergence, E. Farge<br>PART V: CRITICAL DISCUSSION OF DESIGN IN WHAT LIES BEYOND DARWINISM<br>A Response to Darwin’s Dilemma: A-PR cycles and the origin of design in nature, Z. Gill<br>The Synthetic Approach in Biology: Epistemic Notes for Synthetic Biology, P.L. Luisi<br>Necessity and Freedom in Designs of Nature, J. Svoboda<br>Not All Designs are Created Equal, T. Barbalet<br>Design of Living Systems in the Information Age: Brain, Creativity, and the Environment, M. Miran, E. Miran, and N. Chen<br>From Nature to Naturoids and Back, M. Negrotti<br>Trouble for Natural Design, A. Ward<br>Imagining a Theory of Everything for Adaptive Systems, S. Cook<br>PART VI: DESIGN IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES<br>Hidden Order and the Origin of Complex Structures, S. Kak<br>What the Fine-Tuning Argument Shows (and Doesn’t Show), M. Dickson<br>The Continuous Increase in the Complexity of the Designed Structures of the Universe is Described as Movement Against Infinite Entropy, A. Issar<br>Law, Order and Probability, M. Pollak<br>Design and Self-Organization, A.M. Winters<br>Development of Organisms as Self-Organization of Mechanically Stressed Macroscopic Designs, L. Beloussov<br>Playing God: The Historical Motivations of Artificial Life, S. Grand<br />PART VII: DESIGN IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES<br>The Socially Constructed Natural Origins of Self-Organization, D. Rodgers<br>Complex Epidemics, Simplistic Tools: The Failure of AIDS Policy in Africa, E. Stillwaggon<br>PART VIII: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS<br>Last remarks on ORIGIN(S) OF DESIGN IN NATURE [ODIN], L. Swan</p>