Meyer, Matheson and Hunt at Biola
Arthur Hunt and Steve Matheson got a chance on Friday to question Stephen Meyer on some of the points in his book Signature in the Cell. Hunt’s post on the experience is here. Steve’s will be online soon.
Category: intelligent design
John C. Avise has a new paper, basically summarizing the more detailed points of his book, Inside the Human Genome, that will no doubt be keeping some of the folks in Seattle busy. I’ve been in contact with Avise, hoping to do a review and interview about it, for this blog if not another journal.
Brooke on Paley, Design, and all that…
Apropos the continuing com-storm Ed Feser has stirred up with his critical posts on “intelligent” design (all of which I agree with), I was struck by this passage from John Hedley Brooke’s Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives, which bears up precisely what Ed’s saying: Brooke devoted a chapter to Paley’s approach to natural theology,… Continue reading Brooke on Paley, Design, and all that…
Siris on Ed Feser on more about Thomism and ID.
Steve Matheson pretty much nails the problem with Stephen Meyer (and the rest of the Discovery Institute fellows.) Now, if you’re not a biologist, you might think the error is trivial, purely semantic, a typing glitch induced by the proximity of the word ‘virulent.’ And that last part is probably right. But this biologist finds… Continue reading