Category: theistic evolution
New Crossway book: Name contributors critique theistic evolution
| October 8, 2017 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Naturalism, theistic evolution |
Foreword by sociologist Steve Fuller: Interesting in light of the recent “Adam and Eve and Mustn’t Believe” fracas at BioLogos: Here’s the outline: Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique Edited by J. P. Moreland, Stephen C. Meyer, Christopher Shaw, Ann K. Gauger, Wayne Grudem Expected: Nov 30, 2017 Retail Price: $60.00 About Theistic […]
On Adam and Eve and Biologos: Parting of ways a healthy development?
| October 8, 2017 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
From David Klinghoffer at Evolution News & Views: BioLogos is the theistic evolutionist advocacy group founded by Francis Collins. For years they have been gravely advising their fellow Christians that science rules out belief in a historical first pair of human beings. That evolutionary view, posing a seemingly heavy theological challenge to traditional Christian faith, […]
Geneticist: Adam and Eve could have existed
| October 4, 2017 | Posted by News under Human evolution, theistic evolution |
Adam and Eve have certainly been in the news a lot lately. Recently, Joshua Swamidass distanced himself from Christian evolution group BioLogos over their insistence that Adam and Eve could not possibly have existed. Meanwhile, British plant geneticist Richard Buggs posted a letter he had sent in May to BioLogos’ Dennis Venema, taking issue with […]
Swamidass distances himself from Christian evolution group
| October 2, 2017 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
A friend who watches these things notes that genomic medicine prof (and ID foe) Joshua Swamidass hasn’t been active at BioLogos recently and doesn’t seem to be on their speakers’ list. The flies on the wall whisper that it relates to his willingness to entertain the idea of separate creation of Adam and Eve. Recently, […]
Debate: Michael Shermer vs. Alister McGrath
| September 15, 2017 | Posted by News under Atheism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
Here, 7:00 pm EST Toronto Michael Shermer and Alister McGrath: Is God a Figment of Our Imagination? Our dialogue brings together two leading thinkers who have thoughtfully wrestled with this question, each not only having embarked on a personal pilgrimage, but each bringing a lifetime of erudition, experience, and insights to bear on this theme. […]
What beliefs about the universe can Christians not compromise?
| September 3, 2017 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion, theistic evolution |
Here: In this wide-ranging conversation, they discuss how the doctrine of creation makes sense of human dignity, racial equality, true peace and justice, purpose and meaning in life, and more. They also consider recent debates over the historicity of Adam and Eve. See also: Michael Chaberek: Darwinian theory is past its best-before date
Michael Chaberek: Darwinian theory is past its best-before date
| September 3, 2017 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
Laszlo Bencze writes to say, Michael Chaberek. I’m currently reading Catholicism and Evolution, by Michael Chaberek. It would be easy to assume that the book deals in esoteric matters of interest to Catholics only. However, I’m finding that it offers one of the best summaries of the history of evolution that I have ever read. […]
More tales of the tone deaf: Catholic intellectuals who say that Thomas Aquinas would not have supported ID
| July 2, 2017 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, theistic evolution |
From Robert Larmer at Sophia: Contemporary Thomists, by and large, have been very critical of the intelligent design movement. Their criticism raises two important issues; the first being whether such criticism is well-founded, the second being whether it is consistent with the views of St. Thomas, from whom they claim to take their direction. I […]
New anthology from Crossway critiques theistic evolution
| June 18, 2017 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
Crossway is publishing a mammoth (over 600-page) anthology critiquing theistic evolution , with a wide range of contributors from science to theology. From the publisher: The debate about biological origins continues to be hotly contested within the Christian church. Prominent organizations such as Biologos (USA) and Faraday Institute (UK) insist that Christians must yield to […]
Wayne Rossiter: Misuse of statistics at BioLogos?
| May 28, 2017 | Posted by News under theistic evolution |
BioLogo = mostly Christian for Darwinism. From Wayne Rossiter, at Shadow of Oz: She derives all of this is a most specious and disingenuous way. The poll contains data dating back to 1981. But, Haarsma cherry picks convenient dates spanning small periods of time in order to make her case (specifically confining the span of […]
U Maryland’s Robert Nelson has noticed that the Darwin-in-the-schools lobby is no longer policing Evolution Street
| May 14, 2017 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, News, Religion, theistic evolution |
From Robert H. Nelson at the Conversation: The question of whether a god exists is heating up in the 21st century. According to a Pew survey, the percent of Americans having no religious affiliation reached 23 percent in 2014. Among such “nones,” 33 percent said that they do not believe in God – an 11 […]
Thought for the day: Wayne Rossiter on science, miracles, or a blend of both
| April 30, 2017 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
From Wayne Rossiter, at Shadow of Oz: I simply reject this notion that the entire discussion can be cast in the framework of what is and what is not science, or what science can and cannot do. If a TEist believes in a supernatural Jesus, they’re not anti-science. But neither is a Christian who believes […]
BioLogos gravitating to “full-on naturalism”?
| April 12, 2017 | Posted by News under Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, theistic evolution |
Astrophysicist and neuroscientist Casper Hesp wrote a piece at BioLogos, reviewing physicist Peter Bussey’s Signposts to God. Hesp thinks that fine-tuning of the universe is not a good argument for theism. After all, despite massive evidence and the utter improbability of other approaches, we could find out some day that we are wrong. From Wayne […]
Rossiter: The philosophical missteps in the “ignore fine-tuning” argument at BioLogos
| April 9, 2017 | Posted by News under Fine tuning, theistic evolution |
Wayne Rossiter,, author of Shadow of Oz offers a response to Casper Hesp’s concern that we not take fine-tuning of our universe to be evidence for God: It’s odd to review a review, but a few things came up in Casper Hesp’s review of Signposts to God (by physicist Peter Bussey), and I felt they […]
BioLogos: Wayne Rossiter’s successful prediction of theistic evolution’s attack on fine-tuning
| April 9, 2017 | Posted by News under Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
In “BioLogos: One shouldn’t use fine-tuning as an argument for God’s existence, Wayne Rossiter was quoted as saying that he had predicted hat theistic evolutionists would go to war against fine-tuning. So, we naturally asked, where? Where’s your sealed, time-stamped, notarized envelope? Turns out, it’s in his book Shadow of Oz: Theistic Evolution and the […]
At BioLogos: One shouldn’t use fine-tuning as an argument for God’s existence
| April 9, 2017 | Posted by News under Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
From Casper Hesp at BioLogos: I believe it is unwise to turn fine-tuning into an argument based on the gaps in our understanding, because the properties of the universe could become more amenable to scientific explanation in the future. Watchful readers will have noticed that the pitfalls discussed here have almost one-on-one equivalents in common […]
Protein families are still improbably astonishing – retraction of Matlock and Swamidass paper in order?
| April 4, 2017 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, theistic evolution |
That is, if you write a realistic evolutionary simulation, instead of a simplistic one. From Kirk Durston at Contemplations: A Response to Matlock and Swamidass on the Astonishing Improbability of Protein Families … In their simulation, they began with a perfectly ordered repeating sequence and then mutate it to see if the estimated functional information […]
Dictionary of Christianity and science features ID contributors
| April 2, 2017 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
… talking about ID. From Zondervan Academic: We are now just several weeks away from the release of the Dictionary of Christianity and Science. We have been encouraged by the response so far—it has occupied the #1 New Release spot on Amazon in the category of Christian Bible Dictionaries & Encyclopedias for much of the […]
Wayne Rossiter on Venema and McKnight’s Adam and the Genome: One jacket, two books, both wrong
| March 21, 2017 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
Waynesburg biologist Wayne Rossiter, reviews Dennis Venema and Scot McKnight’s Adam and the Genome: Reading Scripture after Genetic Science, at his blog: Part I: Venema really only has two things he wants to accomplish in his portion of the book: 1) to demonstrate that there could never have been two original progenitors of humanity and […]
Design Disquisitions: Jeffrey Koperski on Two Bad and Two Good Ways to Attack ID (Part 2): Two ‘Good’ Ways
| March 20, 2017 | Posted by Joshua G under Biology, Convergent evolution, Darwinism, ID, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Natural selection, Naturalism, Peer review, Philosophy, Probability, Science, theistic evolution |
Part two of my series looking at Jeffrey Koperski’s paper ‘Two Bad Ways to Attack Intelligent Design and Two Good Ones’ is now up on my blog. This one is quite in depth, but a couple of interesting issues come up along the way. I examine the concept of soft and hard anomalies in scientific […]
