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A Taste of New Mystery: Take 2

A couple of days ago I wrote A Taste of New Mystery: Thomism and Intelligent Design. I had thought that some discussion on the topic of the blog post might ensue, but it didn’t. I suppose it could be that the reductio approach I offered is completely uninteresting to everyone. It may be that the …

December 3, 2011 – 11:04 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Intellectual Engagement, Origins and Science, Thinking Christianly | Tagged Behe, Dembski, Discovery Institute, Edward Feser, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mechanism, Philosophy, Reductio ad Absurdum, Science, Strategy, Thomas Aquinas, Thomists | Comments (21)

A Taste of New Mystery: Thomism and Intelligent Design

My post on Plantinga raised an old question again: is Intelligent Design poor theology, poor metaphysics, as certain Thomist theologians/philosophers think it is? Specifically, does it “give the game away” to naturalists/materialists by conceiving of the world in a mechanistic sense, making God a tinkerer in his creation? Does it misconceive who God is in …

November 30, 2011 – 10:32 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science, Thinking Christianly | Tagged Behe, Dembski, Discovery Institute, Edward Feser, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mechanism, Philosophy, Reductio ad Absurdum, Science, Strategy, Thomas Aquinas, Thomists | Comments (41)

Plantinga: There’s No Good Argument For Design, But Who Needs One?

Book Review There are heavyweights in Christian philosophy, and there is Alvin Plantinga, whose name virtually never comes up without the descriptor, “most influential Christian philosopher of our generation.” In his latest book, Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism, he comes to a surprising conclusion about Intelligent Design. To put it perhaps …

November 27, 2011 – 7:22 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Intellectual Engagement, Origins and Science, Thinking Christianly | Tagged Behe, Book Review, Christian, Dawkins, Epistemology, Fine-Tuning, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Philosophy, Plantinga, Religion, Science | Comments (114)

Intelligent Design’s “Negative Science”

What If? Intelligent Design is often accused of being nothing but an attack on evolution, offering no positive theory of its own, and hence not a science. I want to do some thought-play with that. Certainly ID includes negative science, the attempt to demonstrate that naturalistic evolution cannot be correct, that it is inadequate to …

January 11, 2008 – 1:34 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged Behe, Intelligent Design, Michael Denton, Ralph Seelke, Science and Religion | Comments (80)

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Tag Archives: Behe

A Taste of New Mystery: Take 2

A Taste of New Mystery: Thomism and Intelligent Design

Plantinga: There’s No Good Argument For Design, But Who Needs One?

Intelligent Design’s “Negative Science”

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