This post is a continuation of the discussion of Craig’s arguments for the existence of God that I began here. William Lane Craig, Dembski’s explanatory eilter, and anti-evolutionism I titled the post as a whole “Craig on the Teleological Argument,” but partly this has to be a discussion of Craig and the Intelligent Design movement, [...]
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Degrees of intellectual awfulness
Posted by Chris Hallquist on November 14, 2009
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Pierre Duhem was, among other things, a physicist, a philosopher, and a Roman Catholic apologist for the persecutors of Galileo. From this last point, I expect most of you readers would assume I despise him, but I honestly have more mixed feelings: while I think he’s dead-wrong to say that sound philosophy supports Galielo’s persecutors [...]
Information is magic
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 27, 2009
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No, not really, but increasingly I run into creationists who seem to think it is. The existence of information in, say, DNA, is invoked as proof that God exists, because obviously information is a mysterious immaterial thing that must come from an immaterial source</irony>. As someone who got a decent science education, it’s just obvious [...]
Review: Finding Darwin’s God
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 10, 2009
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Let me say this first: Kenneth Miller’s Finding Darwin’s God is easily one of the best books I’ve ever read on the relationship between science and religion. The one-half of the book dedicated to defending evolution and debunking various strains of creationism is as good or better than what you’d find in books dedicated solely [...]
A weird argument from Francis Collins’ BioLogos
Posted by Chris Hallquist on May 12, 2009
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So, Francis Collins, using Templeton Foundation dollars, has set up a group called BioLogos to promote the harmony of science and religion. And, as Jerry Coyne points out, they’ve got some weird stuff on quantum mechanics: Even before Darwin’s contribution to biology, the scientific revolution in physics marked a tremendous advance in our understanding of [...]