Tag: theistic evolution

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 20, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

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Casey Luskin on Why He Favors ID over Theistic Evolution

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July 20, 2022

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future continues intelligent design theorist Casey Luskin’s conversation with Apologetics 315 podcast hosts Brian Auten and Chad Gross. Here in Part 2, Luskin give a peek behind the scenes of ID 3.0, the current research program inspired by the intelligent design framework. Luskin is then asked to explain his reservations about theistic evolution, and Luskin points out the evidential, rhetorical, and logical problems he sees with the brand of theistic evolution advocated by Francis Collins and Biologos. What about the future of the intelligent design movement? Luskin says he’s optimistic, both because of the exciting research and publication breakthroughs of late, and because of the many converts he’s seeing to the ID framework. According to Luskin, many of these Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 4, 2022

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Adam Shapiro, Brian Josephson, Casey Luskin, complex specified information, DNA, genetic information, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Justin Brierley, Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, Mind and Cosmos, Molecular Machines, Natural Theology, New Atheists, Richard Dawkins, Science and faith, Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction, specified information, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, theistic evolution, Thomas Nagel, Unbelievable?, William Paley}

Casey Luskin and Adam Shapiro Debate Intelligent Design, Pt. 1

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April 4, 2022}

On today’s ID the Future, design theorist Casey Luskin, an editor of The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, and science historian Adam Shapiro, co-author of Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction, debate the meaning and prospects of intelligent design. Here in this first half of their conversation with host Justin Brierley of the Unbelievable? podcast, the focus is on how the term intelligent design is used, or misused, and its relationship to theological issues. The interview is used by permission of Justin Brierley.

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Author
Jay Richards

Date
March 14, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
anti-design, apologetics, Atheism, biological complexity argument, Casey Luskin, Christian apologetics, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Cosmological Argument, Darwinian Evolution, demarcation argument, design argument, design argument from human reason, Evolution, fine tuning of physics, history of science, Human Reason, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Jay W. Richards, Materialism, natural science, origin of life argument, origin of the universe Kalam cosmological argument, philosophical materialism, philosophy of science, Privileged Planet argument, public evidence scientism, purpose, teleology, theistic Darwinism, theistic evolution, Thomas Nagel}

Jay Richards on the Art of Answering Theistic Evolutionists

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March 14, 2022

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future, philosopher Jay Richards offers advices on engaging with evolutionists over the issues of origins, evolution, and intelligent design. In his conversation with host Casey Luskin, he says that if someone tells you he’s a theistic evolutionist, first find out what he means by theism and evolution. The latter term, in particular, can have widely varying meanings, and the average lay persons who see themselves as theistic evolutionists likely see God as actively and creatively working in the history of life to steer evolutionary outcomes, including the origin of humanity. What they may not realize is that such a view takes them well outside the bounds of what academic theistic evolutionists generally mean by the term Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 24, 2022

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
agnosticism, Alfred Russel Wallace, Atheism, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinism, Erasmus Darwin, Evolution, fundamentalism, George Eliot, God, H.M.S. Beagle, Hank Hanegraaff, Hank Unplugged, John Milton, Karl Marx, Lawrence Krauss, Mary Ann Evans, memes, methodological materialism, Miracles, Naturalism, Neil Thomas, Oxford University, Paradise Lost, Richard Dawkins, Robert Chambers, Samuel Wilberforce, Satan, Taking Leave of Darwin, theistic evolution, Theory of Evolution, Thomas Huxley, vera causa, William Empson, William Thorpe}

Neil Thomas and Hank Hanegraaff: An Autopsy for Darwinism

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January 24, 2022

Evolution}

Today’s ID the Future kicks off a three-part series featuring Taking Leave of Darwin author Neil Thomas interviewed by radio host Hank Hanegraaff. In this first part, Hanegraaff begins by lauding Thomas’s book and underscoring how influential Darwin’s theory of evolution has been on Western culture. Then Thomas sketches the cultural milieu and individual motivations that he’s convinced drew Darwin toward his formulation of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Here the focus is not on the various evidential weaknesses of Darwin’s theory (which Thomas does cover in his book) but on a question that puzzled Thomas once he became convinced of just how evidentially weak the case for Darwinism was: How was it that a theory so poorly Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 15, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
antibiotic resistance, appearance of design, Big Bang, Biological Information, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Creationism, Darwinian dogma, design detection, design triangulation, DNA, evolutionary creationism, fine tuning, genetic information, God, ID 3.0, information theory, intelligent cause, Intelligent Design, intelligent design research, Molecular Machines, Neo-Darwinism, pharmacology, positive case for intelligent design, Richard Dawkins, Science and faith, systematics, Theism, theistic evolution, unguided evolution, vestigial organs, young earth creationism}

Casey Luskin on the Nature and Fruits of Intelligent Design

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December 15, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future, guest Casey Luskin and host Eric Anderson untangle the differences between creationism, intelligent design, and theistic evolution. There are important distinctions as well as areas of overlap, Luskin explains, but the theory of intelligent design focuses on the book of nature, rather than on the Bible or some other sacred book, and offers evidence that certain features of the natural world are best explained by reference to an intelligent cause. The case for intelligent design includes negative arguments against competitor explanations, such as neo-Darwinism, as well as positive evidence for design. And Luskin notes that increasingly this paradigm is fueling fruitful scientific research in everything from protein science to pharmacology and cosmology. To support this Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 29, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
apologetics, Atheism, Biological Information, complex specified information, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, CSI, DNA, Evolution, fine tuning, fine-tuned universe, genetic information, God, Intelligent Design, knockout experiments, laws and constants of physics, laws of physics, Michael Shermer, Molecular Machines, Mount Rushmore, Proteins, public evidence, Scientific Evidence, Theism, theistic evolution}

Casey Luskin on Why Intelligent Design is Worth Defending

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November 29, 2021

Faith and Science}

Today’s ID the Future spotlights The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith. Host Eric Anderson interviews one of the anthology’s co-editors and contributors, geologist Casey Luskin. The two focus on just one of Luskin’s contributed essays, one that addresses two primary questions: Is intelligent design true? And is it worth expending the energy to defend it against powerful opposition? Luskin answers both questions in the affirmative, and explains why he sees the new anthology as a great resource in the cause of intelligent design.

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
September 13, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
Allen Sandage, Altenberg 16, Atheism, beginning of the universe, Big Bang, BioLogos, Brian Keating, confirmation bias, Darrel Falk, Eugene Koonin, exotic naturalism, fine tuning, fine tuning of the universe, Francis Crick, God and the Astronomers, Günter Bechly, imaginary time, James Tour, Materialism, metaphysical hypotheses, methodological naturalism, Michael Shermer, multiverse, Neo-Darwinism, origin of life, oscillating universe model, panspermia, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, RNA World hypothesis, Robert Jastrow, skepticism, steady state theory, Stephen C. Meyer, Stephen Hawking, Theism, theistic evolution}

Stephen Meyer and Skeptic Michael Shermer, Pt. 1

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September 13, 2021

Faith and Science}

Today’s ID the Future spotlights the first part of a lively and cordial conversation between host and atheist Michael Shermer and Stephen Meyer, author of Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe. In this first of the four-part series, the two touch on everything from Meyer’s three key lines of evidence for theism to a quick flyover of less well-known materialistic origins theories, including the oscillating universe model, panspermia as an explanation for the origin of the first life on earth, and Stephen Hawking’s idea of imaginary time. Meyer lumps many of these ideas under what he terms exotic naturalism and suggests that the atheists who defend these explanations are multiplying exotic Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
July 26, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Aquinas’s fifth way, argument from ignorance, Big Bang theory, Charles Darwin, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, devolution, evolutionary theory, guided evolution, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, methodological materialism, Molecular Machines, Natural Selection, Pat Flynn, purposeful arrangement of parts, random mutation, teleology, theistic evolution, Thomas Aquinas, unguided evolution}

Biologist Michael Behe Tangles with Two Philosophers, Pt. 1

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July 26, 2021

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future features Darwin Devolves author and Lehigh University biologist Michael Behe speaking about the logic and evidence of intelligent design with two philosophers, Pat Flynn and Jim Madden. In a friendly, stimulating exchange, Flynn and Madden press Behe with objections — some philosophic, others scientific — to see how well his position stands up to scrutiny from experts who have engaged the subject. Here in Part 1 of a three-part series, Behe counters the charge that ID is an argument from ignorance, and then the three men compare the contemporary design argument to philosopher Thomas Aquinas’s fifth way. For Behe’s newest book, A Mousetrap for Darwin, go here. This discussion is presented here with permission of philosopher Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 28, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
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

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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
William A. Dembski

Date
May 19, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
abiogenesis, argument from evil, chance, common descent, conservation of information, Douglas Axe, Evolution, genetic code, homochirality, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, law of small probability, Miller-Urey experiment, minimal complexity of a cell, multiple universes, multiverse, Natural Selection, origin of life, probabilistic resources, replicator, self-reproducing machines, simple life, theistic evolution, universal probability bound}

James Tour Interviews William Dembski, Pt. 2

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May 19, 2021

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future again features Rice University synthetic organic chemist James Tour and intelligent design pioneer William Dembski. Here in Part 2 they discuss information theory, probability theory, the origin of life, evolution, the multiverse hypothesis, and Dembski’s contributions to the theory of intelligent design. Their conversation is borrowed, with permission, from Dr. Tour’s Science & Faith podcast.