The Center for Science and Culture
Is there evidence for a designed universe? consider:
1. Whatever begins to exist has a cause that is beyond itself.
2. The universe began to exist.
3. Therefore, the universe has a cause that is beyond itself.
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In his best-selling book The Grand Design (2010), renowned physicist Stephen Hawking advances the startling claim that the laws of physics make God unnecessary for the creation of the universe. Is he right? At this public talk Oxford University Mathematics Professor John Lennox will respond based on his new book God and Stephen Hawking: Whose Design Is It Anyway?
Read More ›In this clip, God and Evolution editor Jay Richards discusses the problem of evil and why Darwinian evolution does not resolve it, contrary to claims by some theistic evolutionists.
Featuring clips from several contributors to God and Evolution, the trailer provides a teaser for the book and highlights key issues it addresses. The trailer is especially appropriate to show to groups that will be using the God and Evolution book for a discussion class.
Read More ›Are students learning the whole truth about Darwin’s theory of evolution? According to a growing number of scientists, the surprising answer is no. They claim that many of the most famous “Icons of Evolution” — including Darwin’s “Tree of Life”, finches from the Galapagos Islands, and embryos that look remarkably similar — are based on outdated research and sloppy logic. Read More ›
Jonathan Wells discusses the implications of DNA and genes on God and evolution, along the way addressing Francis Collins’ claims about junk DNA. He concludes, there are still parts of non-protein-coding DNA for which no specific function is known. Yet new functions are constantly being discovered, so any argument for Darwinian evolution that rest on “junk DNA” must constantly retreat Read More ›
One of the most renowned biologists of the nineteenth century, Alfred Russel Wallace shares credit with Charles Darwin for developing the theory of evolution by natural selection. Yet one part of Wallace’s remarkable life and career has been completely ignored: His eventual embrace of intelligent design. Read More ›
http://discovery.org A number of leading proponents of Darwinian evolution claim that “junk DNA”—the non-protein-coding DNA that makes up more than 95% of our genome—provides decisive evidence for Darwin’s theory and against intelligent design, since an intelligent designer would not have littered our genome with so much garbage. Read More ›
Phillip E. Johnson is asked: ‘What do you consider to be the most significant problems with Darwinian theory?’ From “Darwinism”, Focus on Origins, and interview with Phillip E. Johnson at the University of California, Berkeley.
How the Co-Founder of the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection Advocated Intelligent Design. Read More ›
Unlike Darwin, Wallace believed that biology provides powerful evidence of intelligent design. As a result, Wallace largely has been written out of the history of science by contemporary supporters of undirected evolution. Read More ›
In Icons of Evolution, biologist Jonathan Wells compared icons of evolution –such as homology in vertebrate limbs– with published scientific evidence, and revealed that much of what we teach about evolution is wrong. Published in 2000, the book raised troubling questions about the status of Darwinian evolution that are still plaguing scientists today.
Jay Richards discusses how the theory of intelligent design interacts with the doctrines of the Catholic Church.
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This video episode of ID the Future features Dr. Stephen Meyer, author of Signature in the Cell, discussing the proposal of some theistic evolutionists that all of God’s design of the world must have been “front-loaded” at the beginning of the universe. This is based on his essay in God & Evolution Protestants, Catholics and Jews Explore Darwin’s Challenge to Faith.
On the 700 Club, Stephen Meyer discusses the hype behind Dr. J. Craig Venter’s engineering of a new cell and why he did not create artificial life. He continues to talk about the information within DNA that could not have been generated apart from intelligence.
Jay Richards discusses the problem of evil for the theistic and theistic evolutionary perspectives. He notes the common answer that theists give: God allows man to have free will and this liberty brings evil into the world. The evolutionist’s answer to the question makes the problem more acute: God sent everything into existence at once and therefore could not create everything in perfect moral order right away.
Jay Richards notes that the Catholic Church has no qualms with evolution if its defined as change over time. But according to Pope Pius XII and other popes who have discussed evolution, Darwinian evolution specifically contradicts their holy text and tradition.
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