A keynote talk by Ursula Goodenough at the 2006 “Beyond Intelligent Design” symposium with responses by George Ellis, Dennis Cheek, Melchor Sánchez de Toca Alameda, and Robert Pollack, moderated by William Grassie.
A panel discussion with Stephen Barr, Colin Purrington, and Jeff Schloss, moderated by Peter Dodson, at the 2006 Metanexus symposium “Beyond Intelligent Design.” Author Editor
INTRODUCTION Alchemy has gone the way of the dodo, or has it? On any word analogies test, pairing alchemy with chemistry is like pairing astrology with astronomy. To be sure, alchemy and astrology each had their uses. In the history of ideas they helped focus interest in areas that eventually would submit to rigorous analysis–the…
I have just come back from a quick trip to the old German city of Jena, close to Weimar. By one of those unfortunate accidents of history, Jena found itself on the wrong side of the border through the Cold War, so having suffered through thirteen years of the Third Reich and four years of…
Review ofJohn F. Haught, God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999, 221 pp., $25.00, ISBN 0-8133-6723-9. I suppose it’s the residual effect of original sin, but I enjoy reviewing books I disagree with more than ones I agree with. After all, who wants to spend 1500 words inventing new ways…
I love science and I love Jesus. How do I exist in such divergent domains where my fellows criticize me for being in each?
Let me paint the picture more starkly. Consider an elementary event E. Suppose initially we see no pattern that gives us reason to expect an intelligent agent produced it. But then, rummaging through our background knowledge, we suddenly see a pattern that signifies design in E. Under a likelihood analysis, the probability of E given…