Tag Archives: Bradley Monton

Why Science Doesn’t Need Methodological Naturalism (2)

This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series Science Doesn't Need MN

(Update 3/29: Please regard this series as a first draft with important revisions yet to come.) Two days ago I wrote about the theology implicit in one justification of Methodological Naturalism’s (MN’s) being a requirement for science. I was responding then to the second of the three Justifications for MN I had listed in the first …

March 24, 2011 – 11:04 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (17)

Bradley Monton Interview

Here is Part One of a series of interviews Casey Luskin of the Discovery Institute is holding with Bradley Monton, author of Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design. There is some real substance here. Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent De… Intelligent Design The Future

September 2, 2009 – 8:14 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , | Comments (6)

Lunch With Bradley Monton, “Intelligent Design’s Unlikely Defender”

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Pennock, Monton, Matzke, Luskin

I just had lunch with Bradley Monton, the University of Colorado philosopher who has stepped up as “Intelligent Design’s Unlikely Defender.” He and his friend/colleague Robert Pasnau were on their way to the Poudre River in northern Colorado for a kayaking trip, I’m in Fort Collins for a conference, and the three of us met …

July 29, 2009 – 7:00 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (55)

Intelligent Design’s Atheistic Defender

BreakPoint has just published my review of Bradley Monton’s new book, with the unexpected but highly intriguing theme expressed in its title: Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design. Monton is a philosopher on the University of Colorado faculty, and he is indeed an atheist who defends Intelligent Design. He has been the …

July 28, 2009 – 2:57 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (8)

Pennock, Monton, Matzke, Luskin, et al. (So Far)

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Pennock, Monton, Matzke, Luskin

IN case you’ve missed it—it started with a post named Robert Pennock the Conciliator, in which I made remarks on philosopher of science Robert Pennock’s article on Intelligent Design (ID) in U.S. News and World Report. That post drew attention from another philosopher, Bradley Monton, whom Pennock had rather gouged in the USN&WR piece. Monton …

March 4, 2009 – 9:49 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (14)

Robert Pennock the Conciliator

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Pennock, Monton, Matzke, Luskin

Robert Pennock recently wrote a guest blog in US News and World Report, calling for a sane and presumably peaceful end to polarization over the origins of life. His leadership toward that end is (ahem) rather remarkable. Pennock is a philosopher at my alma mater, Michigan State University; and his opinion, of which he has …

February 22, 2009 – 10:01 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , | Comments (9)

If We Don’t Live Up To Our Beliefs…

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Living Up To Our Beliefs

I’m still thinking about Bradley Monton’s questions, linked from here, about Christians not living up to our beliefs. His observations certainly call for a prophetic response: Christians, wake up! It makes a difference how we live! There is more to it than that, though. Our inconstancy of practice raises two questions: what does it signify …

September 20, 2008 – 10:54 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , | Comments (4)

Monton Responds

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Living Up To Our Beliefs

Bradley Monton has answered my response to his earlier blog entry, including this: For these people, their behavior is deeply at odds with their professed beliefs, and it makes me wonder if they really believe what they say they believe. He is especially on the mark when he points to the pattern of Christians’ lives: …

September 18, 2008 – 9:08 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun, The Faith | Tagged | Comments (5)

Do We Really Believe in God?

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Living Up To Our Beliefs

Do people really believe in God? That’s the question Bradley Monton asked in a blog entry today. He’s a philosophy professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, an atheist, and yet somewhat sympathetic toward Intelligent Design. He begins today’s article, I’ve recently read a couple different pieces arguing that belief in God is less …

September 17, 2008 – 10:00 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , | Comments (6)