Posts Tagged by Creationism

Debating Darwin and Design: Science or Creationism? (2)

November 2, 2012 Posted by Joshua G under Courts, Creationism, Darwinism, Religion, Science
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Some readers here may be aware of an online debate I’m taking part in with a neo-Darwinist (and friend), Francis Smallwood. Francis blogs at Musings of a Scientific Nature. We are currently discussing the issue of whether intelligent design is just a recent strain of creationism, and whether it is a legitimate scientific theory. What… more

Debating Darwin and Design: Science or Creationism? (1)

September 11, 2012 Posted by Joshua G under Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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A couple of days ago I posted my opening statement to a formal online debate I’m currently engaged in with Christian neo-Darwinist Francis Smallwood at Musings Of A Scientific Nature. My opening statement can be found here, and his here. What follows are my opening thoughts on the question whether ID is ‘creationism in a… more

Debating Darwin and Design: A Dialogue Between Two Christians

September 4, 2012 Posted by Joshua G under Biology, Complex Specified Information, Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Science
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A couple of months ago, I agreed to take part in a written debate with a good friend of mine, Francis Smallwood. Francis, like me, is a commited Christian. Unlike me though, he is also a neo-Darwinist. On his blog Musings Of A Scientific Nature he writes on many different scientific issues, although his primary… more

A blow-by-blow response to Dr. Denis Alexander

January 12, 2010 Posted by David Anderson under Books of interest, Christian Darwinism, Creationism, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Religion, Science, theistic evolution
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In the last year and a bit I’ve done a lot of work in trying to understand and then critique the approach of Dr. Denis Alexander of the Faraday Institute in Cambridge (UK). I know that many readers of UD are familiar with Alexander’s big-selling work, “Creation or Evolution – Do We Have To Choose?”.… more

Vatican to exclude ID & Evolutionists from Origins conference

November 3, 2008 Posted by DLH under Biography, Creationism, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science, theistic evolution
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The Vatican apparently seeks to understand biological evolution, as long as speakers do not address the issue of origins whether advocates of Intelligent Design, Creationists, or Evolutionists. That appears to a priori exclude the foundational issue of causation. It also appears to assume that papers on “biological evolution” do not have any unstated assumptions on… more