Behe and Ramage Debate, Pt. 2: Evolution, ID, and Aquinas

Episode 1643 August 29, 2022 00:39:08
Behe and Ramage Debate, Pt. 2: Evolution, ID, and Aquinas
Intelligent Design the Future
Behe and Ramage Debate, Pt. 2: Evolution, ID, and Aquinas

Aug 29 2022 | 00:39:08

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Show Notes

Today’s ID the Future continues the conversation between Catholic intelligent design biologist Michael Behe and Catholic theologian Matthew Ramage. Both agree that nature points to a cosmic designer, but Ramage says he prefers, on aesthetic grounds, the idea that the biological realm has the capacity, gifted by God, to evolve on its own without the need for intervention by God. Behe notes that people have different aesthetic predilections, but it’s the scientist’s job not to figure out how he would have preferred things to have happened in nature, but to discover how they actually did come about. Behe also says that while the sun, moon, and stars do move according to fixed natural laws, it doesn’t follow from this that Read More ›

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