Evolution Intelligent Design Leading Scientists Michael Behe Darwins

Evolution

Intelligent Design

Leading Scientists Michael Behe, Darwin’s Black Box, The Edge of Evolution William Dembski, The Design Inference, Intelligent Design, No Free Lunch

Behe’s Mousetrap

Mathematism

Principles of evolution Evolution: Species undergo genetic change over time. Gradualism: This takes many generations Speciation: Ancestral lines can split into different species. Common ancestry: We can always look back in time and find descendents joining at their ancestors. Natural selection: Well-suited individuals survive to produce more offspring. Processes other than natural selection can produce evolutionary change.

Monsignor Segur “These infamous doctrines have for their only support the most abject passions. Their father is pride, their mother impurity, their offspring revolutions. They come from hell and return thither, taking with them the gross creatures who blush not to proclaim and accept them. ”

Three dangerous ideas Suffering is a necessary part of creation. All living things share a common ancestry. Natural selection is random, “algorithmic, ” not imbued with any purpose.

Evolutionary Theology – A Reading List Ian Barbour, Religion in an Age of Science Kieth Ward, Divine Action Arthur Peacocke, Theology for a Scientific Age Alister Mc. Grath, Science and Religion: An Introduction John Haught, God After Darwin

William Paley and Natural Theology The existence of a watch implies the existence of a watchmaker. The appearance of design in nature implies the existence of a designer, i. e. God. The God-of-the-gaps argument Is the creation of the universe another gap?

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