Last evening nearly 800 people heard Nancy Pearcey explain how Darwinism has evolved into something more than a theory. As such it has gone way beyond the bounds of traditional science. The implications for American culture are staggering.
The Northwest Florida Daily News includes this biographical sketch:
A former agnostic and author of “Total Truth,” Pearcey studied at L’Abri in Switzerland under American Christian theologian Francis Schaeffer. She is currently the Scholar for Worldview Studies at the Center for University Studies at Philadelphia Biblical University and senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, the center of the intelligent design movement.
Click below to read a newstory from the event. As an added bonus there is also a 2 minute video clip of Dr. Pearcey's address.
The intelligent design of life - Northwest Florida Daily News
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
William Dembski on 'Expelled'
Last week Ben Stein's movie "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" was released. I was traveling and missed the opening. I have heard that it was sold out in many places.
William Dembski has been at the forefront of the ID (Intelligent Design) movement. He bears the scars of many a battle. This is what he says about the movie and its likely repercussions:
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Ben Stein's new movie "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" opens this weekend in theaters. It explores the widespread persecution -- destruction of livelihoods, careers and reputations -- of scientists who doubt Darwin's theory of evolution and think intelligence is needed to explain life's origin and development.
Controversy surrounds this film. Reviews tend to be extremely positive or extremely negative. Who likes it? People who think God may have had something to do with our being here and therefore find it reasonable that God may have left tangible evidence of His involvement in creation. Who hates it? A science, education and media elite who prefer that God had nothing to do with it and think that nature must do all its own creating.
Who's right? That's the wrong question. Anyone who has studied the history of science knows about "the pessimistic induction." The pessimistic induction says that all scientific theories of the past have to varying degrees been wrong and required modification (some were so wrong that they had to be abandoned outright). No scientific theory is written in stone. No scientific theory should be venerated. Every scientific theory should now and again be subjected to severe scrutiny. This is healthy for science.
Expelled, by contrast, points up the unhealthy state of contemporary science regarding biological origins. Our intellectual elite have insulated Darwinian evolution from scientific scrutiny. Moreover, they have institutionalized intolerance to any criticism of it. Expelled documents this institutionalized intolerance and thereby unmasks the hypocrisy of an intellectual class that pretends to value freedom of thought and expression, but undercuts it whenever it conflicts with their deeply held secular ideals.
You can read the rest here:
Baptist Press - FIRST-PERSON: The difference 'Expelled' will make - News with a Christian Perspective
William Dembski has been at the forefront of the ID (Intelligent Design) movement. He bears the scars of many a battle. This is what he says about the movie and its likely repercussions:
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Ben Stein's new movie "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" opens this weekend in theaters. It explores the widespread persecution -- destruction of livelihoods, careers and reputations -- of scientists who doubt Darwin's theory of evolution and think intelligence is needed to explain life's origin and development.
Controversy surrounds this film. Reviews tend to be extremely positive or extremely negative. Who likes it? People who think God may have had something to do with our being here and therefore find it reasonable that God may have left tangible evidence of His involvement in creation. Who hates it? A science, education and media elite who prefer that God had nothing to do with it and think that nature must do all its own creating.
Who's right? That's the wrong question. Anyone who has studied the history of science knows about "the pessimistic induction." The pessimistic induction says that all scientific theories of the past have to varying degrees been wrong and required modification (some were so wrong that they had to be abandoned outright). No scientific theory is written in stone. No scientific theory should be venerated. Every scientific theory should now and again be subjected to severe scrutiny. This is healthy for science.
Expelled, by contrast, points up the unhealthy state of contemporary science regarding biological origins. Our intellectual elite have insulated Darwinian evolution from scientific scrutiny. Moreover, they have institutionalized intolerance to any criticism of it. Expelled documents this institutionalized intolerance and thereby unmasks the hypocrisy of an intellectual class that pretends to value freedom of thought and expression, but undercuts it whenever it conflicts with their deeply held secular ideals.
You can read the rest here:
Baptist Press - FIRST-PERSON: The difference 'Expelled' will make - News with a Christian Perspective
RC Sproul and Ben Stein on Expelled - P3
Here is the third and final part of the interview. It is also about 9 minutes long.
RC Sproul and Ben Stein on Expelled - P1
Some have heard the term 'intelligent design.' It is a school of thought which investigates the origins of life and the universe. Specifically it asks the question: Did everything just come into existence by chance? This line of thinking is being expelled from public discourse.
A film has just been released with the title: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. As noted before Dr. R.C. Sproul has had a huge impact on my life. Here he interviews Ben Stein about the movie, "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed."
What comes through loud and clear is the sorry state of higher education in today's culture. Professor Allen Bloom first noted this 20 years ago in his book, "The Closing of the American Mind." If things were bad back then they have only gotten worse.
Enjoy the interview. It runs about 9 minutes. I will also post parts 2 and 3.
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