Posts Tagged by theistic evolution

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

Children of a better god?

December 28, 2010 Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design
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 I have been listening to a few lectures by Christians who are convinced that the standard models of evolution explain all of biology including life’s origin. They say that evolution also explains all of cosmology. For them, this gives them, the evolutionary creationists, “a better god” than any model that requires a lesser form of “interventionist god”.… 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

A sociologist’s perceptive look at “theistic evolution”

August 4, 2008 Posted by O'Leary under theistic evolution
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Recently, I have been reading Warwick U sociologist Steve Fuller’s Dissent over Descent: Intelligent Design’s Challenge to Darwinism, and was intrigued by his comments about “theistic evolution”, as understood by members of the American Scientific Affiliation and promoted by Francis Collins in The Language of God: Theistic evolutionists … simply take what Collins calls ‘the… more