Bible, Theology, and Intelligent Design

Presented at Erdman Hall at the Center of Continuing Education
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
8:30 a.m.–12:00 noon

In this seminar, the history of the conflict between Darwin’s theory of evolution and Intelligent Design was presented, and the argument was made for why the theory of evolution should be seen as compatible with religious views of life.

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Reading Lists/Resources:
Download these recommended reading lists—
Dr. Dobbs-Allsopp
Dr. van Huyssteen

Additional Resources:
There is a PBS eight-hour special entitled “Evolution: A journey into where we’re from and where we’re going”
www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/darwin/index.html

A web site on evolution for teachers and students: "Becoming Human:
Paleoanthropology, Evolution, and Human Origins"
www.becominghuman.org

A book that comes via recommendation of The National Center for Science Education: The Plausibility of Life Resolving Darwin’s Dilemma by Marc W. Kirschner and John C. Gerhart. The book is about the origins of novelty in evolution that seems to reveal design, but generating novelty rests on newly uncovered mechanisms in biology.

“Intelligent Design
and other claims
of supernatural
intervention in the
origin of life are not
science because they
cannot be tested by
experiment, do
not generate any
predictions, or
propose new
hypotheses of
their own.”
— U.S. National
Academy of Sciences

Wentzel van Huyssteen

Chip Dobbs-Allsopp