By: Rodney|16 November, 2012|Categories: Creation & Evolution . intelligent design . Thinking Matters Tauranga|Tags: Apologetics . Christianity . Creation . Evangelism . evolution . existence of God . intelligent design . new atheism
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Intelligent Design scholar Dr. Thomas Woodward (Wikipedia) will be visiting Tauranga for a few days in the second week of December 2012. Qualifications Dr. Woodward is Research Professor at Trinity College of Florida in Tampa Bay, where he has taught for 23 years. He has spoken on the topic of evolution, Intelligent Design and the existence of God at over…
Read more »By: Bnonn|28 October, 2011|Categories: Creation & Evolution|Tags: Darwinian ethics . darwinism . eugenics . evolution . evolutionary morality . moral objectivism . nazism
Richard Weikart: I have spoken with intelligent Darwinists who admit point-blank that they do not have any grounds to condemn Hitler, so I am not just making this up. Many evolutionists believe that since evolution explains the origin of morality — as Darwin himself argued — then there is no objective morality. The famous evolutionary biologist and founder of sociobiology,…
Read more »In a new book, John Lennox sets out to answer one of the most fiercely debated questions of our day.
Read more »By: Bnonn|20 April, 2011|Categories: Ethics|Tags: evolution . moral ontology . moral realism . morality . new atheism . Sam Harris . science . william lane craig
Bnonn takes New Zealand’s Village Atheist, Ken Perrott, to task for ineptly handling the foundations of human morality.
Read more »By: Stuart|25 February, 2011|Categories: Philosophy of Religion|Tags: Argument . atheism . Augustine . evolution . Frank J Tipler . Howard Van TIll . John D Barrow . theism
Stuart argues that, if true, evolution offers us good reasons to believe in the existence of God, rather than His non-existence.
Read more »By: Stuart|16 December, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of Religion . Theology|Tags: Alexander Pruss . Christopher Southgate . evolution . kairological . Kenneth Miller . Michael Murray . predation . problem of evil . Theodicy . william Dembski
In Part Two of this series on the Problem of Evil, Stuart looks at the theodicies of Christopher Southgate and William Dembski that take into account animal suffering in an evolutionary history as a part of the problem of evil, and in doing so develop a framework for his own theodicy.
Read more »By: Stuart|13 December, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of Religion|Tags: David Hume . evolution . External Problem of Evil . Internal Problem of Evil . Logical Problem of Evil . Paul Draper . Probabilistic Problem of Evil . problem of evil . Theodicy . william lane craig
The task of reconciling the evil in this world with the goodness of God and his creation belongs to a branch of Christian theology called Theodicy. This task has been exacerbated in the past century and half by evolutionary theory that makes us acutely aware of the long-ages past filled with animal suffering. Developing a theodicy is of particular interest to the Christian theologian who seeks to make Christianity credible in the mental environment and requires the analytical tools of the Philosophy of Religion.
Read more »By: Jason|13 June, 2010|Categories: Books|Tags: Adam . biblical authority . biblical clarity . Denis Lamoureux . Doctrine . evolution . General Revelation . inerrancy . James Anderson . Origin of life . scie . science . Scripture
Can we reconcile our love for Jesus with a belief that all living organisms gradually evolved from simple life forms? In his latest book, associate professor of science and religion at St. Joseph’s College in the University of Alberta, Denis Lamoureux, argues that we can. James Anderson has written a good review of Lamoureux’s book, looking at his views of Scripture and science.
Read more »By: Jason|16 March, 2010|Categories: About|Tags: Dale Campbell . evolution . jeff tallon . matthew flannagan . Neil Broom . robert mann
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The audio from our first panel event at Auckland University on reconciling God and Science is now available.
Read more »By: Jason|05 March, 2010|Categories: Video|Tags: evolution . intelligent design theory . interview . r.c. sproul . Signature in the Cell . Stephen Meyer
R.C. Sproul sits down with Stephen Meyer, author of the book Signature in the Cell, to discuss Intelligent Design theory and more.
Read more »By: Jason|23 February, 2010|Categories: Biblical Criticism|Tags: Bible . Creation . evolution . Genesis . history . literalism . myth . N.T. Wright . Video
How should we read the first few chapters of Genesis? Myth, history, or something else? Some thoughts on a video by N.T. Wright, the Bishop of Durham and prominent Biblical scholar.
Read more »By: Jason|22 January, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of Science|Tags: darwinism . design . Edward Feser . evolution . Intelligenty Design . intentionality . John Farrell . Scott Turner
A SUNY professor argues that scientists are becoming less hostile toward the idea of teleology.
Read more »Zoologist and Royal Society University Research Fellow at Oxford University, Andrew Parker has written a new book arguing that there are significant parallels between the Genesis account of creation and discoveries in contemporary science.
Read more »By: Stuart|28 November, 2009|Categories: Science & History|Tags: Charles Darwin . Conflict Thesis . Evangelicalism . evolution . Fundamentalism . Higher Criticism . John Scopes . Liberalism . Religion . science . Science Historiography
Stuart re-examines the church’s response to the challenge posed by evolution in the nineteenth century.
Read more »By: Jason|16 November, 2009|Categories: Science & History|Tags: Charles Darwin . eugenics . evolution . materialism . Naturalism . social darwinism . violence
A recent article at the Times Online suggests a link between Darwin’s theory and violence.
Read more »By: Jason|19 August, 2009|Categories: Philosophy of Science|Tags: Creationism . evolution . Michael Ruse . richard dawkins . The God Delusion
Michael Ruse, the atheist philosopher of biology, has written an interesting post about the extremism and intellectual failures of the “New Atheists”. Ruse teaches at the Florida State University and is himself an ardent critic of Creationism and Intelligent Design, authoring numerous books on the topic and in the philosophy of science (“Darwinism defended: a guide to the evolution controversies”,…
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