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Engaging Today's Militant Atheist Arguments

Engaging Today's Militant Atheist Arguments

In this paper, MIT professor Ian Hutchinson addresses the question of how to engage arguments put forward by the New Atheists. In doing so, he offers a critique of scientism, the assumption that scientific knowledge is all the real knowledge there is.
Apr 25, 2011 
Ian Hutchinson 
Science & Worldviews, Atheism & Scientism
Seeking a Signature

Seeking a Signature

In this article, Venema offers his review of Stephen Meyer's book Signature in the Cell.
Oct 19, 2011 
Dennis Venema 
Design, ID Movement
From Intelligent Design to BioLogos

From Intelligent Design to BioLogos

In this paper, Venema tells the story of his transition from support of Intelligent Design to the view that God uses evolution as a creative mechanism.
Oct 19, 2011 
Dennis Venema 
Design, BioLogos, ID Movement
Accommodationist and Proud of It

Accommodationist and Proud of It

Science and religion scholar Michael Ruse gives a personal account of his experiences as an author and public speaker on the compatibility of Christianity and biological evolution.
May 02, 2011 
Michael Ruse 
Science & Worldviews, Atheism & Scientism
How Does the BioLogos Model Need to Address Concerns About Science?

How Does the BioLogos Model Need to Address Concerns About Science?

Many barriers to the acceptance of the BioLogos model by evangelical Christians arise from popular misconceptions about the nature of science and its relationship to God's action in our world.
May 02, 2011 
Ard Louis 
Science & Worldviews, BioLogos
Scientific Fundamentalism and its Cultural Impact

Scientific Fundamentalism and its Cultural Impact

Giberson's essay makes the case that scientific fundamentalists are not merely arguing for the supremacy of science but also presenting science as a quasi-religious replacement. The agenda of the "New Atheists" is not merely to refute mainstream religion but to replace it. Unfortunately, the scientific community is poorly represented by these aggressive public figures.
Apr 25, 2011 
Karl Giberson 
Science & Worldviews, Atheism & Scientism
What Scientists Do

What Scientists Do

In this scholarly essay, Steve Benner, a Distinguished Fellow of The Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, Fla., looks at what the role of a scientist should be. Benner looks specifically at "falsifiability", the acceptance of uncertainty, and the place of the scientist in public discourse.
Apr 22, 2011 
Steven Benner 
Science & Worldviews
Intelligent Design, Thomas Aquinas, and the Ubiquity of Final Causes

Intelligent Design, Thomas Aquinas, and the Ubiquity of Final Causes

In this paper, Baylor philosophy professor Francis Beckwith distinguishes between Intelligent Design (ID) and Thomistic Design (TD).
Apr 22, 2011 
Francis Beckwith 
Design, ID Movement
Design in Nature

Design in Nature

In this paper, adapted from an article from Science & Christian Belief, Dr. Oliver R. Barclay compares and contrasts the biblical view of design in nature with modern design arguments.
Apr 22, 2011 
Oliver R. Barclay 
Design, ID Movement
Are gaps in scientific knowledge evidence for God?

Are gaps in scientific knowledge evidence for God?

Every field of science has unanswered questions and gaps in our understanding. Scientists typically view these as open research questions. Others sometimes argue that if science can’t explain how something happened, then God must be the explanation. Such arguments are called “god-of-the-gaps” arguments. The risk in these arguments is that science is always developing. If gaps in scientific knowledge are the basis for belief in God, then as scientists fill in the gaps, the evidence for God disappears. The God of the Bible, however, is much more than a god of the gaps. Christians believe that God is always at work in the natural world, in the gaps as well as in the areas that science can explain.
Apr 22, 2009 
 
Design, ID Movement
Evolution and the Origin of Biological Information

Evolution and the Origin of Biological Information

In this paper, Venema explores several examples in biology where random mutation and natural selection have indeed led to substantial increases in biological information. The question of how new specified information arises in DNA, far from being an “enigma”, is one of great interest to biologists.
Oct 19, 2011 
Dennis Venema 
Design, ID Movement, Evolution - How It Works
C.S. Lewis on Evolution and Intelligent Design

C.S. Lewis on Evolution and Intelligent Design

This article is a comprehensive study of the views of Christian author and apologist C. S. Lewis on the theory of evolution and the argument from intelligent design. It explains how he would distinguish expressly philosophical arguments for a Transcendent Mind from the current claims of the intelligent design (ID) movement to provide scientific evidence for such a reality.
Oct 19, 2011 
Michael L. Peterson 
Design
Why Dembski’s Design Inference Doesn’t Work

Why Dembski’s Design Inference Doesn’t Work

Mathematics professor James Bradley looks at the design argument presented in William Dembski's book The Design Inference and offers his criticisms on the accuracy of the model.
Apr 25, 2011 
James Bradley 
Design, ID Movement
What is the

What is the "fine-tuning" of the universe, and how does it serve as a "pointer to God"?

Fine-tuning refers to the surprising precision of nature’s physical constants, and the beginning state of the Universe. To explain the present state of the universe, even the best scientific theories require that the physical constants of nature and the beginning state of the Universe have extremely precise values.
Apr 17, 2009 
 
Design, Astronomy & Physics
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