Intelligent Design

Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute, John West, analysis three big questions regarding evolution and God. Listen as he answers these questions: Did God Direct Evolution? Did God Create Humans Morally Good? Is there any Evidence of Design in Nature?

Jay Richards, Stephen Meyer, David Klinghoffer, and John West discuss the questions they pose and answer in God and Evolution. They focus squarely on the implications of evolution as it pertains to faiths. www.faithandevolution.org

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.

Senior Fellow John West discusses epicureanism and Gnosticism as they directly opposed the early church’s view of creation. Listen in as John West describes the parallels in opposition to God as Creator that the early church and the modern church face.

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.

Dr. John West discusses God, Darwin, and morality. He says no apparent connection exists between Darwin and Atheism even though 94% of biologist would call themselves atheists or agnostics. He notes that to hold to Darwinian evolution and morality contradicts each other at a fundamental level which is to the credit of the atheist darwinianists for not making the contradiction of believing in both evolution and a morally imposing creator.

Dr. Jack Collins, Sr. Fellow at the Discovery Institute, answers the center question by going through definitions, history, and various aspirations of past and present theologians and religious groups. Listen to how he surprisingly answers the question.

Over the course of a year, Stephen C. Meyer’s Signature in the Cell has made a powerful impact for intelligent design, reaching a wide audience with its cutting-edge science. Visit http://www.signatureinthecell.com for more information.

Fr. Robert J. Spitzer, Ph.D., and co-author of New Proofs for the Existence of God, waslks through some of the new arguments for God’s existence as reasoned from astrophysics. Listen in as he talks about universe expansion, anthropic fine-tuning, and other novel arguments from the past decade.

Dr. Meyer explains the importance of biological information in origin of life research, as he discussed in his book Signature in the Cell.

Definitions of intelligent design used in the mainstream media are either so superficial as to be meaningless, or completely wrong in stating that ID is creationism and anti-evolutionary. One of the best basic definitions is from intelligentdesign.org. “The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, Read More ›

Dr. Stephen Meyer talks about the assumptions materialistic scientists hold about intelligent design and how they inaccurately combat the theory. Dr. Meyer walks through various definitions of science and how darwinists make certain claims that are self-defeating. Read More ›

Intelligent Design: says there are certain features in nature that are best explained by intelligence and not by undirected process such as Darwin’s natural selection. It does not challenge evolution–as dependent on different definitions–rather it directly opposes Darwinian evolution.

UT mathematician Granville Sewell has produced a book of essays spanning a wide variety of issues related to the debate over evolution. Besides biological evolution, it also deals with the Big Bang, the fine-tuning of the laws of physics, quantum mechanics, and even design in mathematics.

For more about In the Beginning and Other Essays on Intelligent Design go here.

“What Hath Darwin Wrought?” is a TV special that investigates the shocking history of “social Darwinism” in America and Europe, including the eugenics crusade against the “unfit,” the euthanasia movement, Nazi genocide, and current efforts to devalue the lives of the handicapped. Hosted by Todd Friel, the program features Discovery Institute Senior Fellows David Berlinski, author of The Devil’s Delusion and The Deniable Darwin; John West, author of Darwin Read More ›

Wesley J. Smith, a prolific bioethicist, lectures on his new book, A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy. He argues for human exceptionalism and, being special creatures, human’s responsibility in the world. A book party and part of The McNaughton Fellows Lecture Series, March 18, 2010. Related

Signature in the Cell, Tampa

Discovery Institute senior fellow and national radio personality Michael Medved leads a two-hour discussion about the evidence for intelligent design and the challenges it proposes to modern evolutionary theory.

Signature in the Cell author Stephen Meyer debates Oxford University chemist and “new atheist” Peter Atkins on Premier Radio UK. The program is in conjunction with the release of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, which is coming out on DVD in the UK just this month.