Tag: Michael Ruse

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 28, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

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agnosticism, Alister McGrath, Atheism, BioLogos, Bruce Gordon, Christopher L. Reese, complex specified information, constrained integration view of science and religion, dialogue view of science and religion, evolutionary creation, evolutionary psychology, Faith and Science, Francis Collins, historical sciences, independence view of science and religion, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, methodological naturalism, Michael Ruse, Naturalism, NOMA, Non-overlapping magisteria, Paul Copan, postmodernism, Robert Boyle, science and religion, Scientific Method, scientific revolution, Stephen J. Gould, theistic evolution, Three Views on Christianity and Science, universal morality of human beings}

Casey Luskin Reviews Three Views on Christianity and Science

_{Casey Luskin

June 28, 2021

Faith and Science}

On today’s ID the Future, host Tom Gilson and guest Casey Luskin discuss a new book Luskin recently reviewed at Evolution News, Three Views on Christianity and Science. Luskin, associate director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, summarizes the three views covered in the book: the independence view presented by Michael Ruse, the dialogue view presented by Alister McGrath, and the constrained integration view presented by Bruce Gordon. Luskin critiques the first two and argues that the dialogue view, in practice, quickly devolves into a monologue where religion is supposed to sit down and shut up the moment there is a point of difference between religion and consensus science. He says this is doubly problematic because (a) scientists Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
June 21, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Alvin Plantinga, anthropic coincidences, Atheism, Bayesian probability calculus, ChroniclesofStrength.com, epistemology, evolutionary theory, fine tuning, Fred Hoyle, Intelligent Design, John Polkinghorne, metaphysics, Michael Ruse, multiverse, Naturalism, New Atheists, origins science, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Theism, Tim McGrew, universe-generating machine}

Pat Flynn, Stephen Meyer, and the Return of the God Hypothesis, Pt. 2

_{Stephen C. Meyer

June 21, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On this ID the Future, Pat Flynn continues his conversation with bestselling author and philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer, director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. The focus is Meyer’s new book, Return of the God Hypothesis, and here in the second and final part of their conversation, Flynn and Meyer discuss the beginning of the universe, the multiverse hypothesis, worldview bias, Bayesian probability calculus, methodological materialism, and specific scientific predictions that intelligent design thinking has motivated. This interview is presented here with permission of philosopher and YouTuber Pat Flynn.

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 28, 2021

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Adolf Hitler, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, colonialism, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Haeckel, Eugenics, From Darwin to Hitler, Herbert Spencer, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, Jeffrey O’Connell, Michael Ruse, Pantheism, racism, Richard Weikart, Social Darwinism, struggle for life, struggle for survival, survival of the fittest, The Death of Humanity, World War I, World War II}

Richard Weikart Reviews New Book on Social Darwinism

_{Richard Weikart

April 28, 2021

Ethics}

In today’s ID the Future historian Richard Weikart (Cal State Stanislaus) dissects a new Cambridge University Press book on social Darwinism by Jeffrey O’Connell and Michael Ruse. Weikart, author of Hitler’s Ethic, From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Religion, and The Death of Humanity,* says that a major shortcoming of the new book is the authors’ attempt to put as much distance as possible between Darwin and eugenics thinking, and between Darwin and Hitler. The new book paints Darwin follower Herbert Spencer as the eugenics-championing bad guy and posits that Darwin and Darwinism had little or no influence on Hitler’s warped master race ethic. Weikart patiently highlights some key evidence to the contrary, statements front and center in Hitler’s writing. Did Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
March 4, 2020

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__edited, Darwin on Trial, Darwinism, Emily Johnson, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Materialism, Michael Ruse, Neo-Darwinism, Phillip E. Johnson, Phillip Johnson, William Provine}

Honoring Phillip Johnson Pt. 6: Emily Johnson, Stephen Meyer

_{Stephen C. Meyer

March 4, 2020}

On this episode of ID the Future, we present two final, moving talks in a series honoring the late Phillip E. Johnson, author of the hit book Darwin on Trial and affectionately known as the godfather of the intelligent design movement. These two eulogies were given at his memorial service in November. The first speaker is Emily Johnson, Phillip Johnson’s daughter. The second is Stephen Meyer, director of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture.

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
September 23, 2019

Tagged
__edited, abolitionism, Africa, agnosticism, Alt Right, Atheism, Charles Darwin, Christianity, dehumanization, imago dei, James Watson, Judeo-Christian tradition, Konrad Lorenz, Michael Ruse, Natural Selection, Peter Singer, scientific racism, slavery, Tierra del Fuego, Voyage of the Beagle, white nationalism}

Weikart on Racism, Darwinism and Christianity

_{Richard Weikart

September 23, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, Cal State history professor Richard Weikart, author of The Death of Humanity and the Case for Life, talks racism past and present, in both Christian and “scientific” secular history.

Richard Weikart on Michael Ruse and the Darwinian Religion

_{Richard Weikart

September 16, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, From Darwin to Hitler author and historian Richard Weikart speaks with Mike Keas about a recent book on Darwinism, Christianity, and war by Michael Ruse. Weikart says that in the course of the book Ruse appears to shift from warning others about treating Darwinism as a secular religion to himself embracing it as such.

Hitler & Darwin, pt. 2: Richard Weikart on Evolutionary Ethics

_{Richard Weikart

November 30, 2011}

On this episode of ID The Future, the second of two in this series, host David Boze continues a discussion with Discovery Institute fellow Dr. Richard Weikart, author of two books exploring the links between Darwinian theory and Nazism. On this podcast, Weikart talks about the moral and logical challenges involving evolutionary ethics. Is morality simply “an illusion fobbed off on us by our genes to get us to cooperate”, as biologists Michael Ruse and E. L. Wilson suggest? What did Darwin believe about morality? Is there an objective morality, or is it relative and evolving even today? Listen as Weikart builds a compelling case against evolutionary ethics and recent criticism of his books. Weikart is the author of two Read More ›