Stephen Meyer on PBS’s ThinkTank
This film in two parts features Stephen Meyer and Michael Ruse on PBS’s ThinkTank in 2006, hosted by Ben Wattenberg. Used with permission. Part I Part II
Stephen Meyer on the Dennis Miller program
In an interview on the Dennis Miller program, Dr. Stephen Meyer discusses the doubts that Charles Darwin expressed about his own theory, particularly a weakness arising from the sudden appearance of diverse, complex, and insufficiently connected life forms in the Cambrian layer of the fossil record. Meyer also clarifies the distinction between creationism and the theory of intelligent design. Stephen Read More ›
Judaism and Evolution
Listen in as David Klinghoffer discusses how Judaism handles and has handled evolution through the millennia. Hear him talk on the Sabbath and Darwin, Darwin vs. Intelligent Design, and Darwin and Epicurus.
Read More ›The Doctrine of Creation
Dr. John West argues that God’s creation of the world is not a secondary doctrine as theistic evolutionists would suggest. He argues from Irenaeus, the Nicene Creed, and the gospel of John that to deny the specific and intentional creation of the world by God is a blatant misreading of Christian tradition.
Read More ›Is intelligent design the same as creationism?
No. Intelligent design theory is simply an effort to empirically detect whether the “apparent design” in nature acknowledged by virtually all biologists is genuine design (the product of an intelligent cause) or is simply the product of an undirected process such as natural selection acting on random variations. Read More ›
Intelligent Design is not Creationism
In 2004, the distinguished philosopher Antony Flew of the University of Reading made worldwide news when he repudiated a lifelong commitment to atheism and affirmed the reality of some kind of a creator. Flew cited evidence of intelligent design in DNA and the arguments of “American [intelligent] design theorists” as important reasons for this shift. Since then, British readers have Read More ›
Dover Trial Witness Plays Misleading Word Games In Effort to Redefine Intelligent Design
Seattle, Oct. 6 – “Forrest is playing word games, without looking at the meaning of the words,” said Casey Luskin, program officer for public policy and legal affairs at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture, in response to an intelligent design opponent’s testimony. Plaintiff’s witness, Dr. Barbara Forrest, pointed to the word “creation” in early drafts of the supplemental textbook Read More ›
Intelligent Design and Creationism Just Aren’t the Same
Recent news accounts about controversies over evolution in Ohio and Georgia have contained references to the scientific theory of “intelligent design.” Some advocates of Darwinian evolution try to conflate “intelligent design” (ID) with “creationism,” sometimes using the term “intelligent design creationism.”1 In fact, intelligent design is quite different from “creationism,” as even some of its critics have acknowledged. University of Read More ›
Who’s Got the Magic?
In criticizing Phillip Johnson’s “intelligent design creationism,” Robert Pennock raises a particularly worrisome legal consequence of Johnson’s view. According to Pennock, Johnson insists “that science admit the reality of supernatural influences in the daily workings of the world.” But what if the same reasoning that Johnson is trying to import into science were adopted in Johnson’s own area of specialization Read More ›