A talk I gave recently at the Backyard Skeptics
One of the chapters of Evidence Considered responds to Dr Spencer’s essay: Intelligent, Optimal, and Divine Design. When I published this, I…
This is a second excerpt from a book called Evidence Considered: A Response to Evidence for God. Evidence for God is a book edited by William Dembski and Michael Licona that presents fifty arguments for faith from the Bible, history, philosophy, and science. In this excerpt, I respond to the twenty-first chapter by Richard Spencer entitled: “Intelligent, Optimal, and Divine Design.” This is one of the chapters in the science section of the book.
Despite what creationists and Intelligent Design people tell you, the theory of evolution makes a remarkable number of predictions that have turned out to be correct. This is true for discoveries that postdate the discovery of evolution, such as plate tectonics, specific fossil finds and DNA.
Many people are inspired to faith by the wonder of nature, whether it be cosmology, biology, geology or any other discipline. In this essay I want to give an overview of the problems that I see with that, and, in fact, saw with it even when I used to be a Christian.
People often comment that science encourages rationality and questioning, but I’m not convinced. Of course the scientific process is deeply…
Photo Thomas Bresson, CC BY 3.0., via Wikimedia Commons There was a quote in our order of service this week, by…