Occupation: Mathematician Birth: July 18, 1960
Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks l….
Any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient..
Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using….
The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it..
Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right o….
As far as design theorists are concerned, theistic evolution is American evangelicalism's ill-conceived accommodation to Darwinism ..
Design theorists are no friends of theistic evolution..
How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2) To accomplish that ….
Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but do….
The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately e….
The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no….
The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not ….
If we take seriously the word-flesh Christology of Chalcedon (i.e., the doctrine that Christ is fully human and fully divine) and view Christ as the ….
Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others..
There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible t….
The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like t….
Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him..
In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition..
Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistanc….
I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheis….
The scientific picture of the world championed since the Enlightenment is not just wrong but massively wrong. Indeed entire fields of inquiry, especi….