Tag Archives: Intelligent Design

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 (11)

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)

Video Review: Metamorphosis

Video Review I have to be realistic and expect that when I link to the purchase page for Illustra Media’s new film, Metamorphosis: The Beauty & Design of Butterflies, you’re going to find the trailer there and you’re going to want to watch it. I hope that if you do that, you’ll stop the playback …

September 17, 2011 – 10:32 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (12)

“A Healthy Debate”

Just posted at BreakPoint: my review of God and Evolution, edited by Jay W. Richards. I begin with: “Christians don’t think. They get all their beliefs handed to them, and they’ve been taught never to ask questions.” Check it out!

March 9, 2011 – 12:57 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , | Comments (33)

SciAm Endorses Teaching the Controversy?

Could this be? Looks like John Rennie, who until recently was the long-time Editor-in-Chief of Scientific American, thinks it’s a good idea to teach the controversy! The roughly 60 percent in the mushy middle steered around conflicts between evolution and creationism or taught both and let students draw their own conclusions. (Always such a good idea….) …

January 28, 2011 – 7:12 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

Further on “Why the Debate” (Intelligent Design and Thomism)

The responses to my question, “Why The Debate?” on Intelligent Design and Thomist theology have been most instructive for me. Blogging is for learning, too. Holopupenko disagreed with my characterization of Intelligent Design as a reductio-like approach, asking, How do you think Meyer or Behe or Dembski would respond if you pressed them to re-characterize …

May 8, 2010 – 6:48 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , | Comments (25)

ID and Thomism: Why the Debate?

I’m only partway through my reading of the long debate on theology and ID, but some patterns seem to be falling into place already. As I read it, the Thomists in the discussion (all of whom are far better philosophers than I) object to Intelligent Design because ID is mistaken regarding what life is in …

May 5, 2010 – 3:03 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments (36)