Tag: Theology

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
August 29, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
aesthetics, beauty, Catholicism, chance, Christian apologetics, Creation, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinism, Evolution, fine tuning, From the Dust of the Earth, G.K. Chesterton, In the Beginning: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Jack Smart, John Henry Newman, Joseph Ratzinger, Just So Stories, Mathew Ramage, Michael Behe, Molecular Machines, Naturalism, personalism, Pope Benedict XVI, Psalm 8, purposeful arrangement of parts, randomness, Rudyard Kipling, teleology, Theism, Theology, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, voluntarism, William of Ockham}

Behe and Ramage Debate, Pt. 2: Evolution, ID, and Aquinas

_{Michael Behe

August 29, 2022

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future continues the conversation between Catholic intelligent design biologist Michael Behe and Catholic theologian Matthew Ramage. Both agree that nature points to a cosmic designer, but Ramage says he prefers, on aesthetic grounds, the idea that the biological realm has the capacity, gifted by God, to evolve on its own without the need for intervention by God. Behe notes that people have different aesthetic predilections, but it’s the scientist’s job not to figure out how he would have preferred things to have happened in nature, but to discover how they actually did come about. Behe also says that while the sun, moon, and stars do move according to fixed natural laws, it doesn’t follow from this that Read More ›

ISS043E091794 (04/07/2015) --- Astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station are regular witness to the beauty of our planet Earth from their high vantage point. This image was taken on Apr 7, 2015 by the crew of Expedition 43.

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 4, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
apologetics, Atheism, Ben Stein, Biological Information, Casey Luskin, Christianity, creationists, Darwinism, design detection, DNA, Evolution, evolutionary informatics, Expelled, genetic code, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, Mt. Rushmore, purpose, Richard Dawkins, Science and faith, SETI, teleology, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Theism, Theology, William Dembski}

William Dembski: Why Intelligent Design Matters

_{William A. Dembski

May 4, 2022

Intelligent Design}

On this ID the Future intelligent design pioneer William Dembski unpacks one of his chapters in The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith: Exploring the Ultimate Questions about Life and the Cosmos, which Dembski co-edited with Joseph Holden and episode host Casey Luskin. The chapter, “Why Intelligent Design Matters,” focuses on ID’s cultural implications. Dembski notes that atheists use mindless evolution to provide a God-free explanation for life and the universe. Intelligent design checks that move, showing that blind material processes couldn’t have created many things in nature, much less the cosmos itself. Intelligent design is the better explanation. What about the idea that an alien created, say, the first life on Earth (intelligent design without the need for God)? Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 2, 2022

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
1 Corinthians, Atheism, birth of science, Casey Luskin, Christianity, Darwinism, definition of faith, definition of science, Evolution, faith, fall of man, Galileo, God, God of creation, God of redemption, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Johannes Kepler, methodological materialism, methodological naturalism, Michael Faraday, natural philosophy, Nicolaus Copernicus, philosophy of science, Science, Science and faith, scientific revolution, Scientism, self-refuting claims, Theism, Theology, tree of the knowledge of good and evil, trust, truth, William Dembski}

William Dembski on Scientism, Science, and Christian Faith

_{William A. Dembski

May 2, 2022

Faith and Science}

On today’s ID the Future, philosopher William Dembski and host Casey Luskin explore the relationship between science and faith. What is science? What is faith? How does Christianity define faith? Dembski explains that faith in the Judeo-Christian tradition is not the opposite of reason; at the same time, faith possesses a relational component—trust in a just, gracious, and reasonable God—that goes beyond mere assent to propositions. As for science, Dembski describes it as a careful search for truths about the natural world, including truths about key elements such as the birth of our fine-tuned universe and the origin of living things. Dembski says that he is convinced that scientific discoveries, unshackled from atheistic blinders, point strongly to intelligent design as Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
November 15, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Albert Einstein, Allan Sandage, Andrew Klavan, Andrew Klavan Show, Atheism, Big Bang, birth of science, Christianity, contingency, Edwin Hubble, fine tuning, foundations of modern science, God hypothesis, Intelligent Design, Judeo-Christian worldview, laws of physics, Materialism, Mind and Cosmos, multiverse, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, scientific revolution, Stephen C. Meyer, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, Theism, Theology, Thomas Nagel}

Andrew Klavan and Stephen Meyer Talk God and Science

_{Stephen C. Meyer

November 15, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On this ID the Future Stephen Meyer sits down with talk show host and bestselling novelist Andrew Klavan to discuss Meyer’s Return of the God Hypothesis. In this fast-paced conversation the pair touch on the Judeo-Christian roots of science, how fine tuning in physics and cosmology point to intelligent design, and how a great many scientists held out hope that the universe was eternal and therefore did not require a creator, but eventually threw in the towel as evidence mounted for a cosmic beginning. What about the multiverse hypothesis as an escape for atheists wishing to explain away the evidence for a cosmic designer? Meyer explains why it fails Occam’s Razor, and then he and Klavan discuss a noted atheist Read More ›

Quantum physics, time quantum travel. Nanocosmos, nanoworld

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Author
James Tour

Date
September 18, 2020

Categorized
Human Origins, Science

Tagged
__edited, abiogenesis, Albert Einstein, Alexander Vilenkin, Big Bang, cosmic microwave background radiation, Don Ewert, exobiology, general relativity, inflation field, inflationary cosmology, multiverse, origin of life, quantum cosmology, red shift, Scott Minnich, SETI, string theory, Theology, virulence}

James Tour and Stephen Meyer on the Origin of Life, Pt. 3

_{James Tour

September 18, 2020

Human Origins, Science}

On this episode of ID the Future, Rice University synthetic organic chemist and inventor James M. Tour continues his conversation with Stephen C. Meyer. Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
December 4, 2019

Tagged
__edited, Blueprint, cooperation, Holocaust, Human Nature, Islam, Nazism, Nicholas Christakis, Pope Benedict, Pope Benedict XVI, progress, Regensburg Address, sociobiology, Theology, virtue}

Peter Robinson Interviews David Berlinski, Pt. 2

_{David Berlinski

December 4, 2019}

This episode of ID the Future features the second part of a conversation between Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson and polymath David Berlinski, author of the newly released book Human Nature. In this segment of the interview, Robinson asks Berlinski about a book by Nicholas Christakis, Blueprint, which argues that evolution has endowed us with a genetic makeup that drives human culture toward virtue and progress. Berlinski demurs, pointing to the horrors of the twentieth century and by noting that the virtues Christakis underscores, such as cooperativeness, can also be put to nefarious purposes. The Nazi Party, for instance, “was a marvelous engine of cooperation. All those Nazis cooperated with one another running death camps.” Robinson also asks Berlinski about Read More ›

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Author
David Gelernter

Date
October 4, 2019

Tagged
__edited, aboriginal design, Darwinism, devolution, embryological development, Evolution, evolutionary developmental biology, genetic mutations, harmful mutations, Intelligent Design, mutations, Neo-Darwinism, suboptimal design, Theology}

Meyer, Berlinski and Yale’s David Gelernter Challenge Darwinism, Pt. 2

_{David Gelernter

October 4, 2019}

This episode of ID the Future features Part 2 of Peter Robinson’s conversation with Yale computer scientist David Gelernter and Discovery Institute senior fellows Stephen Meyer and David Berlinski.

J. P. Moreland on Scientism, Darwinism, and Bucking the Consensus

_{JP Moreland

December 3, 2018}

On this episode of ID the Future, philosopher J. P. Moreland explains from his new book Scientism and Secularism: Learning to Respond to a Dangerous Ideology how scientism helped bring about Darwinism’s current widespread acceptance. Ironically, the process involved some scientists who dismiss theology … doing theology, and doing it not very well. Moreland says this is just one of the reasons that it’s rational to buck the consensus on evolution. Please consider donating to support the IDTF Podcast.

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Author
Michael Chaberek

Date
August 27, 2018

Tagged
__edited, accidents, Catholic philosophy, Catholicism, Darwinian metaphysics, essential nature, Evolution, God, metaphysics, Michael Chaberek, Neo-Darwinism, neo-Thomist, Philosophy, scholastics, substance, Theology, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, Thomist}

Why Aquinas and Darwin Don’t Mix

_{Michael Chaberek

August 27, 2018}

On this episode of ID the Future, host Jay Richards talks with Fr. Michael Chaberek about Charles Darwin and medieval scholar Thomas Aquinas, one of the most influential of all Western philosophers, and especially central in Roman Catholic thinking. Many Catholic scholars support neo-Darwinism and insist that Aquinas’s work nicely harmonizes with neo-Darwinism. Chaberek, author of the recent book Aquinas and Evolution, and creator of the new website Aquinas.design, offers several reasons to conclude otherwise.

Theistic Evolution Has a Logic Problem, Materialism Has a History Problem

_{JP Moreland

February 21, 2018

Evolution}

Today on ID the Future we hear from the editors of the major new Crossway book, Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique. Philosophers J.P. Moreland and Stephen Meyer examine contradictions right at the heart of theistic evolution, answer logical challenges directed back at intelligent design theory, and explain more than one severe issue with thinking science ever has or ever could thrive on its own, without strong support from both philosophy and theology.