Podcasts about design arguments

Go to https://ground.news/ivm for a better way to stay informed. Subscribe for 40% off unlimited access to worldwide coverage through our link.Does God exist? In this video, we explore three compelling arguments for God's existence: the Creation Argument, the Design Argument, and the Moral Argument. These logical and philosophical perspectives provide strong reasons to believe in a higher power. Whether you're a believer or a skeptic, this discussion encourages thoughtful conversation.

Design Arguments Part 2 Show NotesIn episode 82 we started our discussion on Design Arguments and got up to the start of the 19thC.  Later in that century the argument was turned on its head by Darwin and his Origin of Species. We discuss this and move on to modern creationism (a little) and Intelligent Design (a lot), selecting by our design – not at random - two more chapters from the 50 Arguments for Faith book which is heavy on Intelligent Design. Links: The 50 Arguments for Faith book: “Evidence for God: 50 Arguments for Faith from the Bible, History, Philosophy and Science” by Mike Licona and William Dembski.  (It can be found on Amazon.) Frances mentioned this by a practising Jew who rejects the Intelligent Design concept of irreducible complexity:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3721655/ Doubts Aloud Links:Please give feedback and ask questions using:  doubtsaloud@gmail.com

When you look into the night sky, it can sometimes be tough not to think that there is a designer to it all. And, as it turns out, it is not just Christians who have thought this. The design argument, an apologetic argument that seeks to show God's existence from evidence for design, has had a long history in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. What do these other faiths have to say? Are they much different from Christianity's claims? And are they convincing? Here to help us through this issue are Erkki Rope Kojonen and Shoaib Malik who have just published a new, groundbreaking book on this very topic!

Show NotesWe start with the next chapter selected by the randomiser in our 50 Arguments for God book.  “Can We Be Certain That Jesus Died on a Cross? A Look at the Ancient Practice of Crucifixion” We agree that the answer is Yes, and enjoy ourselves on the way.  Then we move on to another random chapter which is on how our planet is ideal for doing astronomy – “Designed for Discovery”.  This leads to a wider discussion on Design Arguments. We look at their history and cover Aquinas, Hume and Paley, but run out of time at the start of the 19thC. Links: The 50 Arguments for Faith book: “Evidence for God: 50 Arguments for Faith from the Bible, History, Philosophy and Science” by Mike Licona and William Dembski.  (It can be found on Amazon.) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Hume and The Argument from Design:https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume-religion/#ArgDesAnd on Design Arguments generally:https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/teleological-arguments/#Int Doubts Aloud Links:Please give feedback and ask questions using:  doubtsaloud@gmail.com 

Imagine a large area with gentle rolling hills and valleys, or perhaps a rugged terrain complete with steep mountains and impassible gullies. Now imagine those scenes plotted out in a three-dimensional graph. What your picturing may look similar to the virtual fitness landscapes biologists generate to visualize the variation in population for some species. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Dr. Brian Miller to discuss evolutionary fitness landscapes and how they bolster the conclusion of design in living things. Dr. Miller also discusses how fitness landscapes relate to the work of bio-engineer Stuart Burgess and to the arguments made by Dr. Stephen Meyer about epigenetic information at the heart of life. Source

After news updates, the hosts recap the "Celebrate Dissent" conference in Oslo about ex-Muslims. Annie Laurie Gaylor then interviews co-host Dan Barker about Contraduction, his new book on "the death of the Design Argument."

The comprehensible yet infinite depth of the universe grounding modern science and medicine arises both through the understanding that God is legislator and creator and that in Christ this person is working not only as designer and sustainer but healer and controller, such that the person and not the laws are in control. This understanding was extended into science by the philosophy of Michael Polanyi who saw the necessity of the personal in faith for understanding the world. Become a Patron! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to support our work.

Apologetics can be helpful in reassuring oneself about faith and helping one be certain that God exists. In this video, I discuss important topics like the Kalam Cosmological Argument, Design Argument, Fine-Tuning Argument, the Resurrection Argument, and the Moral Argument. I hope you enjoy this more philosophical line of thinking and find it interesting. Support the Show.--------------------------If you would want to support the channel and what I am doing, please follow me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/christianityforall Where else to find Josh Yen: Philosophy YT: https://bit.ly/philforallEducation: https://bit.ly/joshyenBuisness: https://bit.ly/logoseduMy Website: https://joshuajwyen.com/

In this episode Matthew picks apart an episode of the Apologetics 365 podcast from May 2022. See links at 1, where Brian Auten & Chad Gross discuss five arguments they think every Christian should know. While Matthew explains why they are bullshit and they should not convince you to take Christianity seriously. The arguments covered are: Cosmological Arguments, Design Arguments, Moral Arguments, Resurrection Arguments, New Testament Arguments and the Argument Against Religious Pluralism. 1) original podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/076-five-arguments-christians-should-know/id351907712?i=1000564478893 https://apologetics315.com/2022/05/apologetics-315-podcast-076-five-arguments-christians-should-know/ 2) Religious pluralism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_pluralism 3) The Kalam Cosmological Argument https://www.philosophyofreligion.uk/theistic-proofs/the-cosmological-argument/the-kalam-cosmological-argument/ 4) Skydivephil video on the Kalam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGKe6YzHiME 5) The Reliability of the New Testament https://www.historicalbiblesociety.org/reliability-of-new-testament/ 6) The Bible is not a reliable historical source https://religions.wiki/index.php/The_Bible_is_not_a_reliable_historical_source 7) Moral Law https://www.namb.net/apologetics/resource/evidence-for-god-the-moral-argument/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/an-introduction-to-ethics/moral-law/AF16C2CE2AD534DF2502647E26287FA8# 8) Fine tuned arguments https://phys.org/news/2021-11-universe-fine-tuned-life.html https://www.universetoday.com/153083/is-the-universe-fine-tuned-for-life/ https://theconversation.com/peer-review-the-fallacy-of-fine-tuning-2540 9) 12 reasons you can trust the New Testament manuscripts https://crossexamined.org/12-reasons-to-trust-the-new-testament/ To contact us, email: reasonpress@gmail.com our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@reasonpress2901 Our Theme Music was written for us by Holly, to support her and to purchase her music use the links below: https://hollykirstensongs.com/ https://hollykirsten.bandcamp.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/still-unbelievable/message

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International interest in intelligent design is growing. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes back Dr. Brian Miller, this time to discuss his recent participation at a conference on science and faith in Guadalajara and to explain how intelligent design is making inroads internationally. Source

International interest in intelligent design is growing. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes back Dr. Brian Miller, this time to discuss his recent participation at a conference on science and faith in Guadalajara and to explain how intelligent design is making inroads internationally. Source

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By: Dr. Brian Chilton and Curtis Evelo | April 5th, 2023 S6E25 The Design Argument On episode S6E25 The Design Argument, Dr. Brian Chilton and Curtis Evelo discuss the design argument and how it offers evidence for God's existence. Brian and Curtis discuss the following on the podcast: Before we begin, since it is Holy […] The post S6E25 The Design Argument appeared first on Bellator Christi.

You have heard the traditional arguments for the existence of God: The Argument from First Cause, the Design Argument and the Argument from a Universal Moral Law. What are the arguments against these and against the existence of God? Listen as Pat answers some of the toughest challenges presented against the existence of God such as; the multi-universe theory, argument of flawed designs, cannibalism and the moral law argument and from Pat's new YouTube video series Question of the Week.

You have heard the traditional arguments for the existence of God: The Argument from First Cause, the Design Argument and the Argument from a Universal Moral Law. What are the arguments against these and against the existence of God? Listen as Pat answers some of the toughest challenges presented against the existence of God such as; the multi-universe theory, argument of flawed designs, cannibalism and the moral law argument and from Pat's new YouTube video series Question of the Week.

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Dr. Lord and I discuss the fine timing in the universe along with the design argument. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chan-hearron/message

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What are the odds that the universe came into existence? Today we will be exploring the fine-tuning argument to see if it makes sense or not! Subscribe if you enjoy what you hear!My InformationInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/l.t._world/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LTWorld123Website: https://ltworld.info/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjZL...Sources:https://www.foxweather.com/learn/what-happens-when-someone-is-struck-by-lightninghttps://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-survivorhttps://www.powerball.net/biggest-winners#:~:text=The%20table%20below%20shows%20the%20biggest%20Powerball%20jackpots,Power%20P%20...%20%206%20more%20rows%20https://www.powerball.ca/news/your-odds-of-winning-the-powerball-jackpothttps://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fine-tuning/https://home.olemiss.edu/~namanson/Fine%20tuning%20argument.pdfMore Than A Carpenter by Josh and Sean McDowellJesus Among Secular Gods by Ravi Zacharias and Vince VitaleI Don't Have Enough Faith to be An Atheist by Frank Turek and Norman L. Geisler

In this ID the Future, Stephen Meyer takes a deep dive into the case for not only intelligent design, but also for a designer of the cosmos who is immaterial, eternal, transcendent, and involved. Meyer draws on evidence for design at the origin of life, in the origin of plants and animals, and from the fine tuning of the laws and constants of chemistry and the initial conditions of the universe. He connects all this to the scientific evidence that the universe is not eternal but had a beginning—the Big Bang. What about the main materialistic alternative for explaining this suite of evidence—the idea that there is a multiverse with our universe just being one of the lucky universes with Read More › Source

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On today's ID the Future, philosopher Jay Richards offers advices on engaging with evolutionists over the issues of origins, evolution, and intelligent design. In his conversation with host Casey Luskin, he says that if someone tells you he's a theistic evolutionist, first find out what he means by theism and evolution. The latter term, in particular, can have widely varying meanings, and the average lay persons who see themselves as theistic evolutionists likely see God as actively and creatively working in the history of life to steer evolutionary outcomes, including the origin of humanity. What they may not realize is that such a view takes them well off the reservation of what academic theistic evolutionists generally mean by the term Read More › Source

Today's ID the Future from the vault brings listeners Part 2 of Nate Herbst of The God Solution and Casey Luskin of the Center for Science and Culture discussing intelligent design. Here the two look at why some people conflate intelligent design with creationism, and what distinguishes the two. Luskin explains the positive argument for intelligent design from biological information. And he notes that various proponents of intelligent design take widely divergent views on religion, which he says tells us something important about ID's evidential basis. Tune in to learn more. Source

Like my video on cosmological arguments, this video will introduce design arguments and briefly survey three major formulations of the design argument. Arguments covered are Aquinas's Fifth Way, William Paley's Watchmaker Analogy, and the Argument from Fine-Tuning.

Continuing (without Stephen Phillips) on God and the World’s Arrangement: Readings from Vedanta and Nyaya Philosophy of Religion. What does this treatment give us that's fundamentally different than the Western version of the design argument? We talk about these readings in the context of liberation and reflect on reason vs. revelation in this milieu. To hear that full second part, you'll need to go sign up at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support.

On God and the World's Arrangement: Readings from Vedanta and Nyaya Philosophy of Religion with one of its translators, Stephen Phillips. Does nature require an intelligent designer? Śaṅkara (710 CE) and Vācaspati Miśra (960 CE), commenting on the Brahma-sūtra (ca. 200 CE) and Nyāya-sūtra (ca. 200 BCE), argue that it does against atheistic Buddhists, Sāṃkhya believers in a primordial matter that acts on its own, and the Mīmāṃsā conservatives who so venerated scripture that they ruled out a God who created it. But if we're all Brahman (God), just trying to discover that we are and so escape the cycle of rebirth, then where is there room for a particular deity who created us? Part two of this episode is only going to be available to you if you sign up at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support. Get it now or listen to a preview. Sponsors: Visit headspace.com/PEL for a free month's access to a library of guided meditations. Get a free trial and save 20% on an annual membership of at TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/PEL. Learn about St. John's College summer programs at SJC.edu/summer2021. Get up to a $1000 donation matched at GiveWell.org/PEL (pick PODCAST and Partially Examined Life at checkout). Hear Wes' "Stoic Guide to Happiness" at Himalaya.com/stoic (promo code stoic).

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This ID the Future from the vault spotlights A Meaningful World: How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature. The late Phillip Johnson called the book from Intervarsity Press “a wise and witty romp through the fallacies of reductionism.” The work challenges the philosophy of materialism by exploring the fine tuning of the laws of physics, the artistry of ordinary substances like carbon and water, the intricacy of biological organisms, and the drama of scientific enterprise itself. In contrast to contemporary claims that the world is ultimately meaningless, author Jonathan Witt and co-author Benjamin Wiker reveal a cosmos charged with meaning, purpose, and even genius. Get your copy here. Source

You have heard the traditional arguments for the existence of God: The Argument from First Cause, the Design Argument and the Argument from a Universal Moral Law. What are the arguments against these and against the existence of God? Listen as Pat answers some of the toughest challenges presented against the existence of God such […]

You have heard the traditional arguments for the existence of God: The Argument from First Cause, the Design Argument and the Argument from a Universal Moral Law. What are the arguments against these and against the existence of God? Listen as Pat answers some of the toughest challenges presented against the existence of God such […]

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Isn't the design argument undermined by bad designs? 

We talk about teaching HCI using design arguments, tools to support individuals meeting their own goals and supporting the goals of their community members, and ways to connect as a team while working remotely.

The Design Argument - Arguments from Probability (Swinburne, Mackie, and Tennant)

The Design Argument - a Defence of the Argument

The Design Argument - Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Design Argument - The Principle of Causality

Hume's Critiques of the Design Argument

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The Second part in the series of 'The Argument for God's Existence.' Do we Possess the fingerprint of God? Looking at if the world is designed or just here! Living in a designer world

Episode 005 shares an exercise for working out doubts about the existence of God. Josh also talks about the Design Argument for the existence of God and shares a personal story about returning to Davidson College. One Story With Josh X is a mini-show that discuses one story in music, sports, politics, entertainment, mental health, or personal development per episode. Subscribe to the show on: Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/one-story-with-josh-x/id1456563359?mt=2 YouTube :https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjiGrFKg4ih5B_tDpn8O8PY8pWI5as6m2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6uHtTwx8acbbOZN36eIwP6

The story goes: you are walking in the woods and see a wrist-watch on the ground; you don't know how it got there or why it has come to be abandoned here, but you can surmise that someone somewhere designed and made it due to its complexity. This is the basic premise of the argument for intelligent design, mobilized by the religious in their efforts to demonstrate evidence for their belief in a divine creator. So how does this relatively simple story translate into a more fully fleshed out philosophy for understanding our world and universe, and how does that philosophy stand up to mathematical scrutiny? This is what Professor Elliott Sober works to elaborate in his new book The Design Argument, which is a monograph in Cambridge University Press's series “Elements in the Philosophy of Religion.” Sober's book analyzes the various forms that design arguments for the existence of God can take and focuses primarily on two of these. The first is known as biological creationism and concerns the complex adaptive features that organisms have. The second design argument––referred to as the argument from fine-tuning––begins with the assertion that life could not exist in our universe if the constants found in the laws of physics had values that differed more than a little from their actual values and our remarkable luck here points to a divine creator. Elliott Sober is the William F. Vilas Research Professor and Hans Reichenbach Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. He is widely regarded as having played a formative role in the establishment of the field of philosophy of biology and is the recipient of the 2014 Hempel Award for lifetime accomplishment in the philosophy of science. Carrie Lynn Evans is a PhD student at Université Laval in Quebec City.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The story goes: you are walking in the woods and see a wrist-watch on the ground; you don't know how it got there or why it has come to be abandoned here, but you can surmise that someone somewhere designed and made it due to its complexity. This is the basic premise of the argument for intelligent design, mobilized by the religious in their efforts to demonstrate evidence for their belief in a divine creator. So how does this relatively simple story translate into a more fully fleshed out philosophy for understanding our world and universe, and how does that philosophy stand up to mathematical scrutiny? This is what Professor Elliott Sober works to elaborate in his new book The Design Argument, which is a monograph in Cambridge University Press's series “Elements in the Philosophy of Religion.” Sober's book analyzes the various forms that design arguments for the existence of God can take and focuses primarily on two of these. The first is known as biological creationism and concerns the complex adaptive features that organisms have. The second design argument––referred to as the argument from fine-tuning––begins with the assertion that life could not exist in our universe if the constants found in the laws of physics had values that differed more than a little from their actual values and our remarkable luck here points to a divine creator. Elliott Sober is the William F. Vilas Research Professor and Hans Reichenbach Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. He is widely regarded as having played a formative role in the establishment of the field of philosophy of biology and is the recipient of the 2014 Hempel Award for lifetime accomplishment in the philosophy of science. Carrie Lynn Evans is a PhD student at Université Laval in Quebec City.  

The story goes: you are walking in the woods and see a wrist-watch on the ground; you don’t know how it got there or why it has come to be abandoned here, but you can surmise that someone somewhere designed and made it due to its complexity. This is the basic premise of the argument for intelligent design, mobilized by the religious in their efforts to demonstrate evidence for their belief in a divine creator. So how does this relatively simple story translate into a more fully fleshed out philosophy for understanding our world and universe, and how does that philosophy stand up to mathematical scrutiny? This is what Professor Elliott Sober works to elaborate in his new book The Design Argument, which is a monograph in Cambridge University Press’s series “Elements in the Philosophy of Religion.” Sober’s book analyzes the various forms that design arguments for the existence of God can take and focuses primarily on two of these. The first is known as biological creationism and concerns the complex adaptive features that organisms have. The second design argument––referred to as the argument from fine-tuning––begins with the assertion that life could not exist in our universe if the constants found in the laws of physics had values that differed more than a little from their actual values and our remarkable luck here points to a divine creator. Elliott Sober is the William F. Vilas Research Professor and Hans Reichenbach Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. He is widely regarded as having played a formative role in the establishment of the field of philosophy of biology and is the recipient of the 2014 Hempel Award for lifetime accomplishment in the philosophy of science. Carrie Lynn Evans is a PhD student at Université Laval in Quebec City.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The story goes: you are walking in the woods and see a wrist-watch on the ground; you don’t know how it got there or why it has come to be abandoned here, but you can surmise that someone somewhere designed and made it due to its complexity. This is the basic premise of the argument for intelligent design, mobilized by the religious in their efforts to demonstrate evidence for their belief in a divine creator. So how does this relatively simple story translate into a more fully fleshed out philosophy for understanding our world and universe, and how does that philosophy stand up to mathematical scrutiny? This is what Professor Elliott Sober works to elaborate in his new book The Design Argument, which is a monograph in Cambridge University Press’s series “Elements in the Philosophy of Religion.” Sober’s book analyzes the various forms that design arguments for the existence of God can take and focuses primarily on two of these. The first is known as biological creationism and concerns the complex adaptive features that organisms have. The second design argument––referred to as the argument from fine-tuning––begins with the assertion that life could not exist in our universe if the constants found in the laws of physics had values that differed more than a little from their actual values and our remarkable luck here points to a divine creator. Elliott Sober is the William F. Vilas Research Professor and Hans Reichenbach Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. He is widely regarded as having played a formative role in the establishment of the field of philosophy of biology and is the recipient of the 2014 Hempel Award for lifetime accomplishment in the philosophy of science. Carrie Lynn Evans is a PhD student at Université Laval in Quebec City.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The story goes: you are walking in the woods and see a wrist-watch on the ground; you don’t know how it got there or why it has come to be abandoned here, but you can surmise that someone somewhere designed and made it due to its complexity. This is the basic premise of the argument for intelligent design, mobilized by the religious in their efforts to demonstrate evidence for their belief in a divine creator. So how does this relatively simple story translate into a more fully fleshed out philosophy for understanding our world and universe, and how does that philosophy stand up to mathematical scrutiny? This is what Professor Elliott Sober works to elaborate in his new book The Design Argument, which is a monograph in Cambridge University Press’s series “Elements in the Philosophy of Religion.” Sober’s book analyzes the various forms that design arguments for the existence of God can take and focuses primarily on two of these. The first is known as biological creationism and concerns the complex adaptive features that organisms have. The second design argument––referred to as the argument from fine-tuning––begins with the assertion that life could not exist in our universe if the constants found in the laws of physics had values that differed more than a little from their actual values and our remarkable luck here points to a divine creator. Elliott Sober is the William F. Vilas Research Professor and Hans Reichenbach Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. He is widely regarded as having played a formative role in the establishment of the field of philosophy of biology and is the recipient of the 2014 Hempel Award for lifetime accomplishment in the philosophy of science. Carrie Lynn Evans is a PhD student at Université Laval in Quebec City.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The story goes: you are walking in the woods and see a wrist-watch on the ground; you don’t know how it got there or why it has come to be abandoned here, but you can surmise that someone somewhere designed and made it due to its complexity. This is the basic premise of the argument for intelligent design, mobilized by the religious in their efforts to demonstrate evidence for their belief in a divine creator. So how does this relatively simple story translate into a more fully fleshed out philosophy for understanding our world and universe, and how does that philosophy stand up to mathematical scrutiny? This is what Professor Elliott Sober works to elaborate in his new book The Design Argument, which is a monograph in Cambridge University Press’s series “Elements in the Philosophy of Religion.” Sober’s book analyzes the various forms that design arguments for the existence of God can take and focuses primarily on two of these. The first is known as biological creationism and concerns the complex adaptive features that organisms have. The second design argument––referred to as the argument from fine-tuning––begins with the assertion that life could not exist in our universe if the constants found in the laws of physics had values that differed more than a little from their actual values and our remarkable luck here points to a divine creator. Elliott Sober is the William F. Vilas Research Professor and Hans Reichenbach Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. He is widely regarded as having played a formative role in the establishment of the field of philosophy of biology and is the recipient of the 2014 Hempel Award for lifetime accomplishment in the philosophy of science. Carrie Lynn Evans is a PhD student at Université Laval in Quebec City.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The story goes: you are walking in the woods and see a wrist-watch on the ground; you don’t know how it got there or why it has come to be abandoned here, but you can surmise that someone somewhere designed and made it due to its complexity. This is the basic premise of the argument for intelligent design, mobilized by the religious in their efforts to demonstrate evidence for their belief in a divine creator. So how does this relatively simple story translate into a more fully fleshed out philosophy for understanding our world and universe, and how does that philosophy stand up to mathematical scrutiny? This is what Professor Elliott Sober works to elaborate in his new book The Design Argument, which is a monograph in Cambridge University Press’s series “Elements in the Philosophy of Religion.” Sober’s book analyzes the various forms that design arguments for the existence of God can take and focuses primarily on two of these. The first is known as biological creationism and concerns the complex adaptive features that organisms have. The second design argument––referred to as the argument from fine-tuning––begins with the assertion that life could not exist in our universe if the constants found in the laws of physics had values that differed more than a little from their actual values and our remarkable luck here points to a divine creator. Elliott Sober is the William F. Vilas Research Professor and Hans Reichenbach Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. He is widely regarded as having played a formative role in the establishment of the field of philosophy of biology and is the recipient of the 2014 Hempel Award for lifetime accomplishment in the philosophy of science. Carrie Lynn Evans is a PhD student at Université Laval in Quebec City.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, David Montoya speaks with Allen Hainline on the the details of the argument from design.

In this episode, David Montoya speaks with Allen Hainline on the the details of the argument from design.

Sunday PM 03-14-2010. THE DESIGN ARGUMENT. Apologetics Study.

George H. Smith discusses Benedict Spinoza’s controversial ideas about God, religion, and his criticism of the Design Argument.Originally published in essay form on May 22, 2015. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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In episode 2 of Arguments From Reason, James and Dylan talk about the classical method of apologetics.

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Philosopher Dr. Diana Brickell discussed "Design Arguments for the Existence of God, Part 4" with listeners in this 11 December 2014 episode of Philosophy in Action Radio. http://www.PhilosophyInAction.com

Philosopher Dr. Diana Brickell discussed "Design Arguments for the Existence of God, Part 4" with listeners in this 11 December 2014 episode of Philosophy in Action Radio. http://www.PhilosophyInAction.com

Consider some of the popular science-y Christian apologetics: the Cosmological, Teleological, and Design Arguments, for example. They all share a flaw that gets too little attention. (For the podcast transcript, search for the title at www.patheos.com/blogs/crossexamined)

Fifth lecture in the Philosophy of Religion lecture series.

Fifth lecture in the Philosophy of Religion lecture series.

Transcript: When astronomers and physicists are trying to explain coincidences in nature with the anthropic principle they must be aware of a fundamental argument in the field of philosophy. It’s called the argument from design, and it was best put in this quote by Bertrand Russell. “You all know the argument from design. Everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world were ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. This is the argument from design.” Bertrand Russell’s comment is that there is no logical proof of any hypothesis such as the anthropic principle just by arguing that the world had to be the way it is so that we could exist in it. In complex situations in nature, there’s often a strong connection between function, design, and form. For example, why are mountains the size they are on the Earth? Simply, if they were any bigger, the pressure at the base of the mountain would melt the rock, so there is a natural limit. Why are animals the size they are on Earth and no bigger? Because if they were any bigger, they would break. Size of an animal increases roughly as the cube of the dimension, but the bone strength only increases as a cross sectional area, or the square of the dimension. So an animal that gets too big will in fact break. Thus there are often physical reasons why things are the way they are in the natural world, but we must uncover them.

I interview philosopher Neil Manson about the design argument for God's existence, in all its forms.

I interview philosopher Neil Manson about the design argument for God's existence, in all its forms.

Multiverse and Design Arguments, Traducianism, Noah's Flood

Philosopher Dr. Diana Brickell podcast on "Design Arguments for the Existence of God, Part 3" in this 2 November 2009 episode of Philosophy in Action Radio. http://www.PhilosophyInAction.com

Philosopher Dr. Diana Brickell podcast on "Design Arguments for the Existence of God, Part 3" in this 2 November 2009 episode of Philosophy in Action Radio. http://www.PhilosophyInAction.com

Philosopher Dr. Diana Brickell podcast on "Design Arguments for the Existence of God, Part 2" in this 16 October 2009 episode of Philosophy in Action Radio. http://www.PhilosophyInAction.com

Philosopher Dr. Diana Brickell podcast on "Design Arguments for the Existence of God, Part 2" in this 16 October 2009 episode of Philosophy in Action Radio. http://www.PhilosophyInAction.com

Philosopher Dr. Diana Brickell podcast on "Design Arguments for the Existence of God, Part 1" in this 9 October 2009 episode of Philosophy in Action Radio. http://www.PhilosophyInAction.com

Philosopher Dr. Diana Brickell podcast on "Design Arguments for the Existence of God, Part 1" in this 9 October 2009 episode of Philosophy in Action Radio. http://www.PhilosophyInAction.com

Does the apparent design in the natural world point to the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient and benevolent God? In his posthumous Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, perhaps his finest work, David Hume put some devastating criticisms of the Design Argument in the mouths of his characters. Listen to Nigel Warburton reading this summary of the book.