Category: Christian Darwinism
First question: Are the Christian Darwinists at Biologos conscious fronts for atheism? Or unconscious ones?
| August 27, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Christian Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
(Of a series of seven) The Washington Post’s Paula Kirby unintentionally forces the first question. Kirby sounds like an utterly conventional legacy media journalist, a woman who would never have an idea that wasn’t trendy. She read a book by Dawkins and then one by Jerry Coyne and, guess what, she knows evolution is true.… more
Memo to Dennis Venema: The Search for Darwin’s Christ is not a priority anywhere.
| August 19, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Christian Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Venema, newly enlightened, is unconvincing: Sometimes what a person does not discuss is most revealing. He says he knew “virtually nothing of evolution,” but it’s hard to imagine he did not know which way the wind is blowing. more
Dennis Venema’s Vacuous Arguments Against ID
| August 18, 2011 | Posted by Thomas Cudworth under Christian Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Thomas Cudworth takes issue with Biologos at Uncommon Descent: It is so typical of Biologos columnists to say things like: “On Page 259 Meyer misnames this chemical, and therefore he is scientifically incompetent, therefore ID is false.” “Overall, Dr. Venema’s series on why he abandoned ID is much like his series of articles on Signature in the Cell — an intellectual washout. It contributes nothing to the serious discussion of ID notions and ID arguments. If this is the best argument that Biologos can marshal against ID, its days are numbered.” more
NPR unwraps Christian Darwinism: Bible matches Huckleberry Finn in authority
| August 17, 2011 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
Christian Darwinism: Bible matches Huckleberry Finn in authority more
Missing: “God of the gaps” Reward offered – for losing him again
| August 13, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Christian Darwinism, Philosophy |
Anyone who studies design in nature will have heard it a million times, usually from theistic Darwinists: “Identifying design in life forms is risky to faith because once we find out how it really happened, your faith will be diminished. Protect your faith by assuming that God played no direct role.” Yes, but what if more
Junk DNA: At Biologos, some keep the faith – it’s junk and that proves evolution
| August 11, 2011 | Posted by News under 'Junk DNA', Christian Darwinism, Darwinism |
Philosopher Michael L. Peterson explains junk DNA for us at BioLogos in “Evolution and the Deep Resonances between Science and Theology, Part 5” (July 20, 2011): Evolution is the only rational way to account for the molecular uniformity of all organisms, given that numerous alternative structures and fundamental processes are, in principle, equally likely. Moreover,… more
Momentous event: Darwinist explanation of human generosity
| August 5, 2011 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Civilization is learned, but is learned by a process that includes reason, which Darwinism (materialist atheism) cannot accept. To accept it is death – death to Darwinism and Christian Darwinism alike. more
Let us now turn back to the Beard, and perhaps he will forgive us our persistent unbelief
| July 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, Darwinism, Religion |
Photographer-philosopher Laszlo Bencze offers us this prayer, for spiritual Darwinists, Christian or otherwise, reflecting on one of their recent conferences: We believe in Darwin, the father all-sovereign, explainer of all things visible and invisible, and in one Thomas Henry Huxley, the bull dog of Darwin, begotten from the substance of Darwin. We believe in his… more
Trying to put a couple of things together here, re Christian evolutionists and Michael Dowd
| July 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism |
Recently, Caroline Crocker offered us AITSE’s bunk detector for Rev. Michel Dowd and wife Connie Barlow’s recipe for “evolutionizing” your life for fun and profit: This course in life management looks too good to be true. And it is. Married couple Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow promise you a “joy-filled life” and “lighthearted strength.” All… more
If you want to thank God for evolution, here is who you will rub shoulders with, among others
| July 20, 2011 | Posted by News under Atheism, Christian Darwinism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
If you want to thank God for evolution, here is who you will rub shoulders with, among others more
This Christian conference is a scandal and a waste of time. Discuss.
| July 16, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Christian Darwinism, Darwinism |
Barry Arrington recently did far more good for any form of Christian social witness by compelling Prof. Pompous to quit harrassing a Darwin-doubting student. Oh wait, that’s legalism. My gosh, it’s even law!
Maybe Arrington doesn’t care if Pompous feels good about himself. I sure don’t. I don’t care if he becomes a Christian or gets saved. I don’t care about his perspective. I don’t want to go to conferences about his perspective or about anybody’s in particular. I want him to quit harassing politely dissenting students, and he had better. more
Great entertainment at Creation-Evolution Headlines from the sinkhole of …
| July 15, 2011 | Posted by News under Atheism, Christian Darwinism, Darwinism |
collapsing Darwinism. Here’s one:
Evolutionize your life. Religion is well known for offering people peace and meaning. What does Darwin have to offer? A lot, thinks one militant theistic evolutionist whose mission is to help Darwinian evolution gain acceptance in churches. Michael Dowd and his wife Connie Barlow have produced a self-help course on a website called “Evolutionize Your Life.” more
“Have you ever actually tried just being nice to them?”
| July 10, 2011 | Posted by News under Atheism, Christian Darwinism, Darwinism |
If “them” are the new atheists, here’s the kind of thing you’d get in response: more
He said it: Only Darwin can save philosophy
| July 10, 2011 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, Darwinism, Mind |
In a popular lecture delivered in Vienna I 1900, the physicist Ludwig Boltzmann, one of the fathers of statistical mechanics and the kinetic theory of gases, declared that the nineteenth century would be remembered as the Century of Darwin, then stated: In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin’s… more
BioLogos contributor blasts Christian Darwinists’ treatment of Steve Meyer’s Signature in the Cell
| July 1, 2011 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism |
In “Signature in the BioLogos” (June 28, 2011) at his The Hump of the Camel blog, retired British doctor and BioLogos contributor Jon Garvey blasts the Darwinthink treatment of Steve Meyer’s Signature in the Cell (Harper One, 2009): What struck me in all this was that every single contribution contained at least some degree of… more
Adam and Eve: Atheist Michael Ruse helpfully explains what some Christian news operations miss
| June 28, 2011 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design |
That their existence is part of the foundation of Christianity. Anglican Curmudgeon usefully points out the reasons that an “evolutionary” interpretation of Christianity is impossible, citing atheist (and former Christian) Michael Ruse’s arguments in From Monad to Man: Let me be open. I think that evolution is a fact and that Darwinism rules triumphant. Natural… more
New atheist Sam Harris explains why he thinks but little of old-fashioned theistic evolutionist John Polkinghorne
| June 26, 2011 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism |
New atheist and PhD neuroscientist Sam Harris on theistic evolutionist John Polkinghorne: … here is Polkinghorne describing the physics of the coming resurrection of the dead: If we regard human beings as psychosomatic unities, as I believe both the Bible and contemporary experience of the intimate connection between mind and brain encourage us to do,… more
HuffPost: ID theorists have led everyone astray on all kinds of things
| June 20, 2011 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism |
At HuffPost, Jonathan Dudley (“a seminary graduate now training to be a medical scientist”) allows us to know that “Christian Faith Requires Accepting Evolution” (06/18/11), because (among other things) Many think the widespread rejection of evolution doesn’t really matter. Evolution is about what happened in the past, the argument goes, so rejecting it doesn’t have… more
Agnostic sociologist on the “Darwinian wars”
| June 19, 2011 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, Culture, Intelligent Design |
Steve Fuller, reviewing Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong (Eerdmans, 2011) for Times Higher (24 March 2011), comments, Let me start by conceding the central, most controversial thesis argued in this book: that neo-creationism and ultra-Darwinism are opposing offshoots of the same modernist root. Both read the… more
Is World Magazine what Christianity Today was supposed to be?
| June 19, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Christian Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Steno tells us that Jay Richards’ (ed) God and Evolution won World Magazine’s Book of the Year (American), as did Norman Nevin’s (ed) Should Christians Embrace Evolution (British). Don’t miss Marvin Olasky’s thoughtful discussion of why these two books deserved to lead. First, because Think about the three main intellectual influencers of the 20th century:… more