Coming up in FIRST THINGS: Christoph Cardinal Schönborn
[From http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=72] The January issue of FIRST THINGS will include a reflection by Christoph Cardinal Schönborn on the intelligent design/evolution controversy. His article is occasioned by physicist Stephen Barr’s argument in the October issue, “The Design of Evolution.” Barr, in turn, was responding to Cardinal Schönborn’s earlier op-ed piece on these questions in the New York Times, which received a great deal of attention. In the issue following Schönborn’s reflection, Barr will have a further evaluation of the state of the question. So what is FIRST THINGS up to here? We are not distancing ourselves from the intelligent design movement. The champions of that movement have rendered a signal service in exposing the non-scientific philosophical dogmatism of many evolutionists. Nor Read More ›