Science & the Sacred
Karl Giberson, Darrel Falk, Pete Enns and other leading scholars provide dynamic and timely insights into science, faith and their integration. These blogs feature authors’ current projects, their reactions to events, books and politics, and their personal reflections on the harmony of science and faith.
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By Michael Ruse | March 13, 2010 | Category: Guest Features
I have been called many things in my time, but I truly believe that “clueless gobshite” is a first. In a way, I am almost proud of this. After all, if you are in your seventieth year and someone feels so strongly about your ideas that they refer to you in this way, then you must be doing something right. Or if not exactly right, you must have ideas that others want to challenge so strongly that they pull out this kind of language.
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March 12, 2010 | Category: Video Blogs
In his new animated video series “The Design Detective,” Gordon Glover offers an entertaining but insightful look at some of the conversation surrounding Intelligent Design theory. Glover's characters raise the following question: Even if we knew conclusively that deliberate conscious activity was responsible for an observed phenomenon, is "design" by itself a causally adequate explanation?
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By Darrel Falk | March 11, 2010 | Category: BioLogos Features
Meyer spends considerable time disputing what he calls “Ayala’s claim” that Alu sequences are distributed randomly. I’ve reread Ayala’s post several times trying to find what makes Meyer think Ayala claimed this. Put simply, he doesn’t say it nor does he imply it. He does say that on average there are about 40 copies of Alu sequences between every two genes, but this is simply a fact.
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By Stephen C. Meyer | March 11, 2010 | Category: Guest Features
The closest that Ayala comes in his review to recognizing the central affirmative argument in the book is his rather clumsy attempt to refute the idea of intelligent design by insisting that existence of “nonsensical” or junk sequences in the human genome demonstrates that it did not arise by intelligent design. As he claims explicitly, “according to Meyer, ID provides a more satisfactory explanation of the human genome than evolution does.”
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By Darrel Falk | March 10, 2010 | Category: BioLogos Features
Meyer and Ayala have very different views about what science has to say about the origin of genetic information. Meyer believes the scientific data clearly demonstrate that genetic information has arisen through the intervention of an intelligent agent. Ayala sees it differently. The Intelligent Design movement, as Ayala sees it, is deeply flawed at both the theological and scientific level.
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