A panel of lectures moderated by Edward Davis.
STATEMENT OF THE CRANACH INSTITUTEPROTESTING THE REMOVAL OF WILLIAM DEMBSKIAS DIRECTOR OF THE MICHAEL POLANYI CENTERAT BAYLOR UNIVERSITY The Cranach Institute wishes to express its dismay at the decision to removeWilliam Dembski as Director of the Michael Polanyi Center (Metanews,10/19/2000). Shortly before this announcement, we learned that thecommittee appointed to evaluate the status of the…
A February 27, 2007 posting on Wikipedia by Joseph C. Campana with ResearchID.org suggests that “Media Misreports Intelligent Design Research and the John Templeton Foundation”.1 Campana argues that contrary to recent press statements by Charles Harper, the Templeton Foundation in fact does or at least once did supported Intelligent Design Theory (ID). William Dembski has…
Ian Barbour lecture at Metanexus conference on understanding the rise of the Intelligent Design movement. Ian Barbour: “Beyond Intelligent Design, Science Debates, and Culture Wars” – the opening lecture for this series from Metanexus Institute Author Ian Barbour Throughout his career, Ian Barbour has been at the forefront of the dialogue between scientists and theologians….
In October of 1996, Pope John Paul II issued a statement on Darwinian evolution.
1. Overview of the Design Inference Darwinbegan his Origin of Species with the commonsense recognition that artificial selection in animal and plant breeding experiments is capable of directing organismal variation. A design-theoretic research program likewise begins with a commonsense recognition, in this case that humans draw design inferences routinely in ordinary life, explaining some things…
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…