Nicole Striker, of the Salt Lake City Tribune, reports that the intelligent design debate is returning to Utah in the form of the 11th annual Religion and the Humanities Conference on Friday, Dec. 1st at Utah Valley State College and Westminster College.
The four invited speakers include two fellows from the pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute, Paul Nelson, who focuses on developmental and evolutionary biology, and Robin Collins, a philosophy professor at Messiah College, a private Christian college in Pennsylvania. One the other side of the debate will be John Haught, former theology chairman at Georgetown University, and Michael Ruse, philosophy professor at Florida State University.
Hilary White writes for LifeSite.net on some Richard Dawkins statements.
In a letter to the editor of Scotland’s Sunday Herald, Dawkins argues that though no one wants to be seen to be in agreement with Hitler on any particular, "if you can breed dogs for herding skill, why on Earth should it be impossible to breed humans for mathematical, musical or athletic ability?"
He is also a leader of the movement to gain legal "human" rights for great apes, arguing that since there is no such thing as a soul, there is no moral difference between apes and humans.
To paraphrase Dostoyevsky...if there is no higher power, then all things are permitted.
This paper by Michael W. Tkacz, Associate Professor of Philosophy, was prepared for the Gonzaga University Socratic Club.
It explains why the Thomists have so much trouble with IDT.
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Evolution has become a favorite topic of the news media recently, but for some reason, they never seem to get the story straight. The staff at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture started this Blog to set the record straight and make sure you knew "the rest of the story".
A blogger from New England offers his intelligent reasoning.
We are a group of individuals, coming from diverse backgrounds and not speaking for any organization, who have found common ground around teleological concepts, including intelligent design. We think these concepts have real potential to generate insights about our reality that are being drowned out by political advocacy from both sides. We hope this blog will provide a small voice that helps rectify this situation.
Website dedicated to comparing scenes from the "Inherit the Wind" movie with factual information from actual Scopes Trial. View 37 clips from the movie and decide for yourself if this movie is more fact or fiction.
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Australian biologist Stephen E. Jones maintains one of the best origins "quote" databases around. He is meticulous about accuracy and working from original sources.
Most guys going through midlife crisis buy a convertible. Austrialian Stephen E. Jones went back to college to get a biology degree and is now a proponent of ID and common ancestry.
Complete zipped downloadable pdf copy of David Stove's devastating, and yet hard-to-find, critique of neo-Darwinism entitled "Darwinian Fairytales"
Intelligent Design The Future is a multiple contributor weblog whose participants include the nation's leading design scientists and theorists: biochemist Michael Behe, mathematician William Dembski, astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez, philosophers of science Stephen Meyer, and Jay Richards, philosopher of biology Paul Nelson, molecular biologist Jonathan Wells, and science writer Jonathan Witt. Posts will focus primarily on the intellectual issues at stake in the debate over intelligent design, rather than its implications for education or public policy.
A Philosopher's Journey: Political and cultural reflections of John Mark N. Reynolds. Dr. Reynolds is Director of the Torrey Honors Institute at
Biola University.