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Discovery Institute

The Not-So-Intelligent Designer: A Review

February 3, 2017 by Randal

Abby Hafer, The Not-So-Intelligent Designer: Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not. (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2015).  If you love intelligent design, you’ll (probably) hate this book. If you hate intelligent design, you’ll (probably) love this book. If you’re somewhere in-between in your assessment of intelligent design, you’ll probably find yourself somewhere […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Abby Hafer, creationism, Darwin, Discovery Institute, evolution, intelligent design, Neo-Darwinism, review

Science and religion: Are they really in conflict? Yeah, sometimes.

November 4, 2014 by Randal

I mentioned in my last post that I participated in a panel discussion following a simulcast of the Discovery Institute sponsored event “Science and Faith: Are They Really in Conflict?“. While I enjoyed the simulcast (John Lennox and Stephen Meyer are both bright, engaging speakers), I did have some quibbles. I noted one of them […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: conflict thesis, Discovery Institute, faith, religion, science, warfare thesis

Should we “teach the controversy”?

April 18, 2012 by Randal

In “Monkeying around with common sense” I offered a critique of Tennessee’s new bill for teaching scientific controversies in school. My critique consisted of pointing out that this kind of method would be frowned upon in other knowledge discourses like history and English. So it seems inappropriate for this bill to single out science as […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: creationism, Discovery Institute, evolution, intelligent design, Teach the Controversy, Tennessee

The Wedge Strategy of Fiat USA and other nefarious intelligent designs

September 2, 2011 by Randal

First, my apologies. I’ve been very slow in responding to comments this week (and am still catching up). This is due to a perfect storm of factors including publishing deadlines and the start of a new semester. In this post I want to respond to two different issues, both relating to ID. The first one […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Discovery Institute, intelligent design, wedge document

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