sparc
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After the recent not so friendly review of his book "The End of Christianity"by a baptist fellow after which Dr. Dembski had to assure that he didn't leave the ground of Baptist doctrines (BTW, his comment is not visible there anymore) his brainchild "Intelligent Design" has been attacked on another Baptist site as being un-christian and theistic: | Quote | | Though ID proponents typically are not Bible believers and might even claim to be agnostic in regard to the identity of the Designer, they demonstrate that the Darwinian mechanisms of natural selection and random mutations are insufficient to explain the facts that exist in life. |
[…] | Quote | | Another potential problem with creation science and intelligent design materials is the danger of the pride of intellect. |
[...] | Quote | | It is possible to become addicted to debating and an apologetics approach to Christianity. One blogger describes himself as “a Christian, librarian, palaeoanthropologist, and evolutionary biologist with an all-consuming interest in apologetics and controversies in science and religion.” This is not healthy. It does not lead to settled truth. It produces strife and confusion. |
[…] | Quote | Beware of the fact that intelligent design and theistic evolution ultimately are not friends of the Christian faith
Materials promoting Intelligent Design and theistic evolution are useful to show the error of atheistic evolution, but ultimately they are not friends of the Christian faith. In fact, most of these authors speak disparagingly of a literal six-day creation and salvation only through the blood of Jesus Christ. Belief in an unknown and perhaps unknowable “Designer” is insufficient and leaves one far short of absolute truth and eternal salvation. |
And all these fellows of the Discovery Institute are non-believers | Quote | Consider some of the chief names in the ID and theistic evolutionary field:
Michael Behe is a Roman Catholic and a theistic evolutionist.
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William Dembski holds to theistic evolution, stating that he does not accept literal young earth creationism.
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Philip Johnson is a theist and an agnostic as to how God created.
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John Lennox, author of Has Science Buried God? is a theistic evolutionist[/b]
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Geoffrey Simmons, author of What Darwin Didn’t Know, believes that the earth is millions of years old (What Darwin Didn’t Know, p. 304) and that there was a stone age
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Benjamin Wiker is a Roman Catholic who rejects a literal interpretation of Genesis 1-3.
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Jonathan Wells is a member of the exceedingly liberal Unification Church |
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"[...] the type of information we find in living systems is beyond the creative means of purely material processes [...] Who or what is such an ultimate source of information? [...] from a theistic perspective, such an information source would presumably have to be God."
- William Dembski -
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