Below are links to the Discovery Institute’s five podcasts of University of Colorado (Boulder) professor of the philosophy of physics Bradley Monton – who is an atheist – on why the universe might show evidence of design. Monton teamed up with another skeptic of religion, mathematician David Berlinski, against materialist atheist Lawrence Krauss and British theistic evolutionist Denis Alexander, to defend the design of the universe as an intellectually worthy idea (not just some religious schtick).
Here’s more on the debate. And the five pods are linked below.
Well, it’s no secret that the intelligent design debate is more nuanced than legacy media portray it.
I suspect that fewer than 200 journalists in the world actually know what the controversy is about.
How can you tell if they do?
First, they realize that the evidence from science does not support current materialist or naturalist or no-design theory. (Shhhh!)
They are not columnists retailing fatuous lines like “There is no conflict between faith and science!”
or
“No creationism is the schools! Darwin explained it all without God. (But (optionally) you can holler your guts out for Jesus anyway. Maybe it is good for evolution if you do.”
Often, the same columnist is shouting both slogans, at different times.
Good thing too, because there isn’t a 360 degree swivel joint in the human head!
Second, they have actually read and thought about the books written by ID theorists like Mike Behe, Bill Dembski, and Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Richards, which advance a testable thesis.
They have looked beyond the smoke and noise generated by fossil science organizations and the “Christian” scientists who meet with them to plan strategy to prevent consideration of design, purpose, or meaning in the universe. (There is a scandal here, awaiting detailed discovery – rats for me, I am mainly a trade news hack, and may not get in on the best cellar.)
Anyway, here’s Monton on design (audio): Read More ›