Category: theistic evolution
Biologist Wayne Rossiter on non-religious doubts about universal common ancestry
| December 9, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Origin Of Life, Philosophy, theistic evolution |
Wayne Rossiter, author of Shadow of Oz: Theistic Evolution and the Absent God, talks about predictable claims from theistic evolution: To catch people up to speed, in a facebook conversation, [Jim] Stump made the statements, “Common ancestry [here he means Universal Common Ancestry] is a multiply confirmed theory that explains the observable data in detail. […]
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
| December 5, 2018 | Posted by News under Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Media, theistic evolution |
Karsten Pultz reports from Denmark on efforts to suppress the idea of design in nature that are coming from the Danish church. Mr. Pultz is also the author of “Why I have a problem with theistic evolution,”: Intelligent design being suppressed in academia is old news. But in Denmark even a Christian newspaper participates in […]
Moshe Averick: When does a “gap” point beyond conventional science?
| November 11, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, theism, theistic evolution |
Rabbi Moshe Averick, author of The Confused World of Modern Atheism (Mosaica Press, 2016) addresses the “God of the Gaps” – the claim that the intersections between the material and the immaterial in nature are just “gaps” waiting to be filled in (with special reference to the origin of life): The first thing I would bring […]
Why do Catholic intellectuals claim Thomas Aquinas would cozy up to Darwinism?
| October 28, 2018 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
Especially when it comes to a Darwinian approach to human beings? Man, the universal, does not really exist. According to the late Stanley Jaki, Chesterton* detested Darwinism because “it abolishes forms and all that goes with them, including that deepest kind of ontological form which is the immortal human soul.” And if one does not […]
Must Christians believe in the Big Bang theory?
| September 16, 2018 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Creationism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
J. R. Miller offers a reasonable discussion of varieties of Biblical creationism: Maybe you have heard the accusation that biblical creationists are blinded by their ancient theology which forces them to reject the modern “scientific fact” of evolution. But what do people mean by this accusation? What is evolution? Is biblical creation a de facto […]
Does cancer disprove intelligent design? Two views
| August 26, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
So thinks theistic evolutionist Joshua Swamidass at Biologos. It turns out that evolutionary theory is indispensable to understanding cancer. The link I offered above leverages evolution for just this purpose. … From this body of work, we can see the evolution of new functions (new information!), neutral theory, and the effectiveness of obtuse metrics like […]
Paper: “Dangerous tendencies” of Catholic theistic evolutionist included support for “racist eugenic practices”
| August 12, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
Abstract: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin loved the world, but, theologically and spiritually, he often tried to leave it behind. This essay shows that from the 1920s until his death in 1955, Teilhard de Chardin unequivocally supported racist eugenic practices, praised the possibilities of the Nazi experiments, and looked down upon those who he deemed “imperfect” […]
Danish ID proponent: Why I have a problem with Theistic evolution.
| July 29, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
An open letter to William Lane Craig and the proponents of theistic evolution from Karsten Pultz,: author of Exit Evolution, in response to William Lane Craig’s questions around whether Adam and Eve really existed. For 30 years I didn’t believe in a personal God. I was not an outright atheist but was an agnostic leaning […]
A thoughtful cartoonist wonders, who has a problem with evolution?
| July 23, 2018 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, theism, theistic evolution |
Closing out our religion coverage for the week, there is an interesting series of cartoons from Jordan Collver at Nautilus, on why people do or don’t “believe in” evolution. Here’s one panel: Some notes: The girl at middle left seems to be a fan of Berra’s Blunder (describing the outcome of alleged unintelligent natural processes […]
Teilhard de Chardin: The “evolution” priest’s legacy included racism and social Darwinism, says theologian
| July 18, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
From John P. Slattery at Religion Dispatches: In fact, a movement has been underway to resurrect, as it were, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin as a renewed foundation for theological reflection. According to a November report in America magazine, Pope Francis is already considering removing the “warning” attached to Teilhard’s historical writings, and more recently the […]
Theistic evolution: Conjuring up one’s own version of evolution and calling it God’s
| July 1, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
Karsten Pultz, author of a book on intelligent design in nature (in Danish) Exit Evolution, writes to comment on this recent exchange at ENST between Doug Axe, ID theorist and author of Undeniable, and Hans Vodder, theistic evolutionist, at ENST : In my [Axe’s] previous response to Hans, I tried to show why all attempts to […]
Theistic evolution: There is no clear definition of the term, says reviewer of a critique
| June 24, 2018 | Posted by Denyse OLeary under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
From Nathan Muse at Apologetics 315, a review of Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique, It should be noted that the scientific critiques in this volume are not new. The beauty of this project is distilling them into one volume. Even if some readers will not be completely convinced by the scientific critique […]
William Lane Craig takes on Adam and Eve
| June 17, 2018 | Posted by News under Design inference, Genetics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
It’s risky. The church splitter (fundamentalism) vs. the church closer (theistic evolution). William Lane Craig writes: Two challenges to this doctrine arise from modern science, one fairly old and the other very recent. … I am currently exploring the genetic evidence that is said to rule out an original pair of modern humans. In talking […]
Theistic evolutionist tilts at the God of the Gaps (again)
| June 10, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
Last November, Crossways published a collection of essays, Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique, which is critical of that tendency in theology. Theistic evolutionist Denis O. Lamoureux published a review of the book in American Scientific Affiliation’s Perspectives, “Intelligent Design Theory: The God of the Gaps Rooted in Concordism,” of which this excerpt […]
Evolution News slams “sloppy” IV book by BioLogos advisor
| April 23, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Naturalism, theistic evolution |
From Evolution News: InterVarsity Press publishes some great books and used to be a place to which you could reliably turn for thoughtful, well-researched commentary on evolution and intelligent design. They still have excellent titles on the backlist, including Intelligent Design Uncensored and Darwin on Trial. But in 2016, IVP announced a “partnership with the […]
Asks Wintery Knight: Can a person believe in both God and Darwinian evolution?
| April 23, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
At his blog: Here is the PR / spin definition of theistic evolution: Evolutionary creation is “the view that all life on earth came about by the God-ordained process of evolution with common descent. Evolution is a means by which God providentially achieves his purposes in creation.” This view, also called theistic evolution, has been […]
Advice: Reserve now for major conference on theistic evolution
| March 29, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
Hey, springtime in Philadelphia. Can you get your institution to pay? 😉 From David Klinghoffer at Evolution News and Science Today: Update: The deadline to register for this event is Monday, April 2. We strongly advise registering now to reserve your place. As philosophy, theology, and sociology, theistic evolution is a fascinating and extremely influential phenomenon. […]
Mormons “need not shy away from evolution” – provided they don’t read the fine print
| March 4, 2018 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, theistic evolution |
From Peggy Fletcher Stack at Salt Lake City Tribune: Mormons should be as friendly to evolution as any people on Earth, a Brigham Young University biologist unequivocally declared this week. They believe in “eternal progression,” for example, and that the universe was organized from pre-existing matter, Steven L. Peck told a packed audience Thursday on […]
Theistic evolutionist: Neanderthals “not members of our own species,” despite evidence of Neanderthal ancestry
| February 24, 2018 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, speciation, theistic evolution |
Theology can lead us to some weird places. From Evolution News and Science Today, in a continuing series on Adam and the Genome, As if on cue, science news today reports a remarkable discovery: cave art in Spain from upwards of 64,000 years ago, apparently by Neanderthals. The Wall Street Journal aptly summarizes the takeaway: […]
Tyler O’Neil: Three views on origins supported by the text of the Bible
| February 18, 2018 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Design inference, Evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
From Tyler O’Neil at PJ Media, in support of Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design , including evolutionary creation: Deborah Haarsma, president of BioLogos, argued that the scientific theory of evolution is compatible with biblical creation. She made a clear distinction between Darwinistic evolutionism — which uses evolution to disprove God — and […]
