The Debate over Design in the Early Church Eerily Current

Episode 1649 September 14, 2022 00:30:19
The Debate over Design in the Early Church Eerily Current
Intelligent Design the Future
The Debate over Design in the Early Church Eerily Current

Sep 14 2022 | 00:30:19

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Show Notes

In today’s ID the Future, scholar John West, managing director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, reveals how current debates over whether nature displays evidence of intelligent design echo debates in the first centuries of the Christian church. The early Christians debated the Greco-Roman materialists but also the religious Gnostics of their day; and the ideas the early Christians confronted then confront Christians and other theists still today. Moreover, in some cases, those ideas are being peddled not by outsiders to the faith but by prominent Christians. West’s talk was taped at the 2022 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith in the greater Philadelphia area, an event jointly sponsored by Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture and Read More ›

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