Naturalistic Evolution Reckons Too Little With Its Own Meaning
In a Facebook comment on my Stream article about Darwin Day, Ryan Downie asked, How does it not make sense to create your own meaning? Meaning doesn’t have...
February 16, 2020
Some Serious Thinking On Evolved Morality
We’ve been discussing the moral argument for God here lately in a two-part short series, where I introduced this version of the argument: AB1. We cannot...
April 16, 2014
Darwin’s Doubt Available for Pre-Order
They say you can’t tell a book by its cover. Not unless you’re Jerry Coyne, that is. He is quite certain that Stephen Meyer’s forthcoming book...
April 17, 2013
“Victor Stenger: Is Evolution Compatible With Religion?”
Once in a while a New Atheist gets it right: In fact, this attempt by scientists to convince the American public that evolution poses no threat...
October 9, 2012
Of Course Atheists Have Meaning and Value—Just No Good Way To Explain It
Atheists often confuse Christians’ position on meaning and value. The typical version, as it comes from atheists’ mouth, is, “Christians say you don’t have meaning or...
October 4, 2012
Why (and Why Not) Argue Against Evolution
There is exactly one good reason to argue against evolution: if you are convinced it’s not true and if you are convinced it’s an important issue. If...
April 13, 2012
How To Argue Against Evolution
I just posted on how not to argue against evolution. I want to add a brief word now on how to argue against it. I’m not...
April 13, 2012
How Not To Argue Against Evolution
There are good arguments against naturalistic evolution, the belief that all species developed through unguided random variation and natural selection.[1. … and some other essentially statistical...
April 13, 2012
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...
December 3, 2011
