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Discovery Institute: Indiana Bill “Bad Science and Bad Education”

A press release that just came from the Discovery Institute: Indianapolis – A bill approved today by the Indiana Senate to allow the teaching of creationism in public schools is being criticized as bad science education by Discovery Institute, the nation’s leading intelligent design think tank. [From Discovery Institute - Article Database - Leading Intelligent …

February 1, 2012 – 3:54 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (13)

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 , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (41)

“Despite Overwhelming Evidence, Creationists Cling to Unreality”

I’m afraid I have to disagree with Nathan Schneider again. This time it’s about his AlterNet assessment of the Dover trial and the Intelligent Design controversy. I have several things to say about it. For starters, he makes this most curious allusion: The Dover trial followed in the footsteps of its notorious predecessor, the famed …

July 31, 2008 – 11:19 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (11)