Chaberek: Why Thomas Aquinas Would Have Loved Intelligent Design

Episode 1151 September 05, 2018 00:22:18
Chaberek: Why Thomas Aquinas Would Have Loved Intelligent Design
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Chaberek: Why Thomas Aquinas Would Have Loved Intelligent Design

Sep 05 2018 | 00:22:18

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future, Father Michael Chaberek, author of the books Catholicism and Evolution and Aquinas and Evolution, explains why the theory of intelligent design meshes well with the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. In his conversation with host Jay Richards, Chaberek, creator of the site Aquinas.Design, notes that some Thomists complain about ID, but he argues that they misunderstand what ID is and isn’t. As for criticism that ID is a “God of the Gaps” argument, Chaberek urges Thomists to consider where that complaint leads: For Catholics, and Christians generally, that complaint proves way too much, he argues.

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