Origin(s) of Design in Nature

Introduction. - Foreword. - Preface. - PART I:Origin of Design. - The Initial Low Gravitational Entropy of the Universe as the Origin of Design in Nature. - On the Biological Origin of Design in Nature. - Creativity in Nature. - PART II: Philosophical aspects of design. - Plato s Pythagorean Cosmos: Order and Chaos in the Intelligence of Natural Design. - War or Peace? Huxley and Kropotkin s Battle Over the Design of Virtue. - Free Will in God s Dice Game. - Does Biology Need a New Theory of Explanation? A biological perspective on Kant s Critique of Teleological Judgment. - Pragmatism, Inquiry, and Design: A Dynamic Approach. - The Natural Design of Intelligence in Dewey s Philosophy. - PART III: Theological aspects of design. - The Best Mislaid Plans: A Religious Approach to the Question of the Planning of Reality. - Judaism and Evolution in Four Dimensions: Biological, Spiritual, Cultural, and Intellectual. - Random Natural Laws Versus Direct Trends: A Cabbalistic Interpretation Based on the Teachings of Rabbi Kook. - The Identity of Designer and Design. - In the Beginning There Was Lightning: Fulguro-Genesis and Eduard Loewenthal s Religion of Religions. - Structure and Creativeness: A Reinterpretation of the Neo-Confucian Binary Category Li and Qi. - Evolution: The Biblical Accounts of Life s Development. - PART IV: Darwinism as the backbone of the life sciences. - Design and disorder: Gould, adaptationism and evolutionary psychiatry. - Architecture and Design Among Plants and Animals: Convergent and Divergent Developmental Mechanisms. - The Lingual Taste Palillae: A Delicate and Complicated Nature s Design for Taste Modalities Perception. - Divine Genesis, Evolution and Astrobiology. - Consistent Patterns of Statistical Distributions in Natural Ecological Communities: Lake Phytoplankton. - Coupling of growth, differentiation and morphogenesis: an integrated approach to design in embryogenesis. - Interior CellDesign: VICKZ Proteins Mediate RNA Localization And Cell Function. - Organic Codes and the Origin of Language. - Mechano-Sensing in Embryonic Biochemical and Morphologic Design: Evolutionary Perspectives in Primary Organisms Emergence. - PART V: Critical discussion of design in what lies beyond Darwinism. - A Response to Darwin s Dilemma: A-PR cycles and the origin of design in nature. - The Synthetic Approach in Biology: Epistemic Notes for Synthetic Biology. - Necessity and Freedom in Designs of Nature. - Not All Designs are Created Equal. - Design of Living Systems in the Information Age: Brain, Creativity, and the Environment. - From Nature to Naturoids and Back. - Trouble for Natural Design. - Imagining a Theory of Everything for Adaptive Systems. - PART VI: Design in the physical sciences. - Hidden Order and the Origin of Complex Structures. - What the Fine-Tuning Argument Shows (and Doesn t Show). - The Continuous Increase in the Complexity of the Designed Structures of the Universe is Described as Movement Against Infinite Entropy. - Law, Order and Probability. - Design and Self-Organization. - Development of Organisms as Self-Organization of Mechanically Stressed Macroscopic Designs. - Playing God: The Historical Motivations of Artificial Life. - PART VII: Design in the social sciences. - The Socially Constructed Natural Origins of Self-Organization. - Complex Epidemics, Simplistic Tools: The Failure of AIDS Policy in Africa. - PART VIII: Summary and conclusions. - Last remarks on ORIGIN(S) OF DESIGN IN NATURE [ODIN].