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Those of you who missed Ken Millers wonderful BYU address are in for a treat. A friend of mine just complied a list of things you may find useful: The Nova Program about Intelligent Design – Judgment Day: The link to Kenneth Miller on the Colbert Report: And finally, here is his entire lecture given at Brown University (Almost . . . → Read More: Some Kenneth Miller links “Darwin, God, and Design: America’s Continuing Problem with Evolution” Dr. Kenneth R. Miller, Brown University JSB Auditorium, BYU Campus Open to the Public This Thursday, October 29 11:00 a.m. Host Monte L. Bean Museum Ken Miller has been recommended many times on this blog he is the author of: Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and . . . → Read More: Come see the proper response to ID: As Part of Darwin Days BYU Biology brings in Kenneth R. Miller Last week by some convergence of irony and slapstick naivety the Wheatley Institute at BYU brought Michael Behe to their symposium “Responding to the The New Atheism.” Here’s the write-up in the Studies & Doctrine section of Mormon Times. Why did they report on the only talk not worth hearing? This is ironic because few people have done more to indirectly support the new atheism than Michael Behe. Continue reading BYU Wheatley Institute brings in “Intelligent Design” expert to combat New Atheism—Alas Arguments about ‘design’ in creation have been around a long time. The earliest one I’ve been able to find that explicitly explores it is from Xenophon, 4th Century BC, (and diligent readers if you know of earlier texts I would love to be directed to them!). Xenophon was a sometimes-student of Socrates and, like the wise teacher’s more famous student Plato, wrote a series of dialogues featuring Socrates and various interlocutors. One of these, from his Memorabilla, sounds like it was lifted right out current intelligent design creationist debates. Continue reading Theological Arguments about ‘Design’ Fall on Hard times |
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