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10/08/08

by Denyse O'Leary 09:05:37 pm, Categories: Commentary - OpEd, 401 words

Startling idea for a debate: Evidence really matters ...

by Denyse O'Leary
ARN correspondent

The Great Debate: Intelligent Design and the Existence of God will be held November 7-8 in Fort Worth, Texas ( east of Dallas) - and the people who are debating are not who you might think ...

Here's the basic idea:

.... four world renowned participants who will address this significant issue from different viewpoints; specifically, a Pro-Intelligent Design Theist and Atheist, and an Anti-Intelligent Design Theist and Atheist.

Remember the born-again physics nerd versus the atheist religion prof? Locked in endless debate about design in the universe? Well, forget them. They ran out of gas somewhere ...

Here's the lineup:

Faraday Institute head Denis Alexander - he believes in God but not in design in the universe

Mathematician David Berlinski - he doesn't believe in God but entertains the idea of design in the universe

Physicist Lawrence Krauss - he doesn't believe in God or design

Philosopher Bradley Monton (From his site: "One of his main research areas nowadays involves science-based arguments for the existence of God.")

I'm glad someone had the wit to see that questions about whether God - the Western monotheistic God - exists are different from questions about whether patterns in nature, like the fine tuning of the universe, are best interpreted as evidence of design.

Of course some advocates have a massive interest in confusing the two questions, but they are actually separate.

Here are the venues:

Friday November 7, 2008
7:00 â€“ 10:00 p.m.
Will Rogers Auditorium
3401 W. Lancaster Ave.
Fort Worth, Texas
Tickets: $10 Adults; $5 Students

with follow up the next morning
Saturday November 8, 2008
9:30 â€“ 11:30 a.m.
St. Andrewâ€™s Episcopal Church
917 Lamar St., Fort Worth, Texas
www.st-andrew.com
Tickets: FREE

I certainly hope this morphs into an online video.

Also just up at The Post-Darwinist:

Darwinism and high culture: "Exactly why we do things this way is never a question that is asked"

Intellectual freedom in Canada: Post-modernism the key threat?

Michael Behe and Darwin's big theory

Christian mathematician John Lennox vs. former Christian science writer Michael Shermer, on God, design, and all that

Toronto-based Canadian journalist Denyse O'Leary (www.designorchance.com) is the author of the multiple award-winning By Design or by Chance? (Augsburg Fortress 2004), an overview of the intelligent design controversy. She was named CBA Canada's Recommended Author of the Year in 2005 and is co-author, with Montreal neuroscientist Mario Beauregard, of The Spiritual Brain: A neuroscientist's case for the existence of the soul (Harper 2007).

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