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Darwinism

Ain’t Gonna Make a Monkey Out of Me! Is Darwinism Compatible with Human Dignity?

April 7, 2018 by Randal

Over the years, I’ve encountered many objections to the reconciliation of Christianity to Neo-Darwinian evolution. One of the most common and forceful objections pertains to the alleged loss of human dignity that comes with a biology of common descent. As Christian rock singer Larry Norman sang in “God Part III,” “I don’t believe in evolution. I […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: anthropology, creationism, Darwinism, evolution, image of God

God, Evolution, and Creation: A Short Interview

January 18, 2017 by Randal

Here’s are some clips from an interview I did with Pastor Todd Petkau of Riverwood Church in Winnipeg. In these clips we discuss creation, Darwinian evolution, and doubt. Dr. Randall Rauser Interview – Unapologetic from Riverwood Church on Vimeo.

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Darwinism, doubt, evolution, interview, Todd Petkau

The Darwinian Fundamentalists

August 5, 2013 by Randal

A couple weeks ago I picked up Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini’s What Darwin Got Wrong (New York: Picador, 2010, 2011). Both Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini (henceforth F&P) are atheists. They deny that any intelligence was involved in the formation of life on earth. And they accept the common origin of all life forms. What they […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Darwinism, evolution, naturalism, science, theism

Doug Groothuis on “The Origin of Species”

April 5, 2013 by Randal

The Atheist Missionary just forwarded to me the following tweet from Christian philosopher Douglas Groothuis: @DougGroothuis: I just reviewed: ‘On the Origin of Species’ by Charles Darwin via @amazon http://t.co/k55mF88XMO If you read through Professor Groothuis’ review you’ll quickly discover that it isn’t a review at all. Rather, it is (as his title states) “A […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Darwinism, Douglas Groothuis, Origin of Species

Would it be wrong to resurrect the Neanderthals?

December 30, 2012 by Randal

Over the holidays many people indulge in drink or sweets. Like a true nerd, I indulge in reading all the books I couldn’t get to during the semester. Among those books was anthropologist Chris Stringer’s Lone Survivors (Henry Holt, 2012). The book presents Stringer’s Recent Out of Africa (ROA) theory according to which homo sapiens […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Chris Stringer, Darwinism, ethics, evolution, Lone Survivors, neanderthal

A plea for intelligently designed evolution

August 27, 2011 by Randal

Back to the CP vault of 2009 articles. Here is another digitally remastered work of art on evolution and ID. *** Intelligent design is a great idea, but why is it owned by those who repudiate neo-Darwinian evolution? A clue as to why the theistic IDers reject evolution comes in the neo-Darwinian definition of the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Darwinism, evolution, intelligent design

Was “Expelled” intelligently designed? A Review

August 25, 2011 by Randal

Expelled was released three years ago to great fanfare (at least in the evangelical subculture). Here was a film hosted by a famous comedian (okay, not really; it was actually Ben Stein) which claimed to take on the evolution bullies in the name of God, intellectual freedom, and intelligent design. I did this belated review […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Ben Stein, creationism, Darwinism, evolution, expelled, intelligent design

Isn’t it time to make peace with Darwin?

August 24, 2011 by Randal

Another vintage 2009 post from my CP days, this one focuses on the overdue need for reconciliation between Darwin and evangelicals. Content-wise it seems especially apposite as the fall semester at university is about to begin. I develop these thoughts further in a chapter from my book You’re not as Crazy as I Think (Biblica, […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, evolution

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