Tag Archives: Intelligent Design

ID and Creationism: Learning As I Go

This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series Is ID Creationism?

A few days I posed a tentative question, wondering whether some of those who do not distinguish Intelligent Design from creationism may be exhibiting a kind of worldview blindness, one that causes them to see everyone different themselves as being all the same. That led to one of the highest-velocity discussions I can remember having …

October 14, 2009 – 12:56 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (54)

Questions For Those Who Believe ID Is Creationism

This entry is part 4 of 8 in the series Is ID Creationism?

Yesterday in the thread on ID and creationism, a commenter using the handle “Wheels” pointed out, The starting point [for both ID and creationism] is with religion, namely Christianity in this case. The arguments used in Pandas were all Scientific Creationism arguments. The terminology used in Pandas‘ early drafts were all old-hat Creationism. When ID …

October 13, 2009 – 1:13 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (62)

Maybe They Really Can’t Tell the Difference

This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series Is ID Creationism?

Several times in the last few days the term “Intelligent Design Creationism” has crossed my line of sight. It’s a misnomer, a duct-taped concatenation of concepts that overlap somewhat, but not enough to merit being stuck together the way ID opponents have done. Robert Pennock is perhaps the worst, but Barbara Forrest, Richard Dawkins, and …

October 11, 2009 – 5:25 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (228)

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)

Scientific Bias and Its Cures, or Why Intelligent Design Is Essential to Mainstream Biology

Update inserted at 5:45 pm, August 1: There is a group I call “the loyal opposition” who have frequently disagreed with me and other Christians writing here. Of that group, my logs indicate that David Ellis, Ordinary Seeker, Tom Clark, Jacob, Tony Hoffman, and doctor(logic) have visited this blog since I posted this entry. All …

August 1, 2009 – 8:06 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (140)

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)

Melanie Phillips on “The Secular Inquisition”

From Melanie Phillips today comes possibly the most intellectually aware statement I have seen from any journalist on the Intelligent Design controversy, including this: While materialist fundamentalists can deal with religious believers by scoffing they are in a separate domain altogether from the real ie scientific world, the suggestion that science might itself arrive at …

May 5, 2009 – 10:29 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments (29)

The Late Great Ape Debate by Bayard Taylor

Book Review Bayard Taylor has a knack for explaining issues for teens and college students, and doing it clearly, with a refreshing sense of humor. He did it previously with Blah, Blah, Blah, an excellent guide to worldviews (and yes, that’s its title, or at least part of it). He has done it again with …

April 2, 2009 – 3:18 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

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)