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Darwin or Design by Jason Rennie
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Darwin or Design is a collection of interviews with 25 people on both sides of the intelligent design question. There are interviews on what evolutionary theory currently thinks, what is intelligent design, the philosophy of science, ID and The Law and many others. If you want to learn about about Intelligent Design and get an overview of what is going on and have 9 1/2 hours to spend on the question, then this is the book for you!
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By: Marco Conti
I really would like to give this book good marks, because I believe the author sincerely thinks he is trying to be an impartial observer in the debate between ID and Evolution. Unfortunately, that impartiality is paper thin and the bias comes out in the questions chosen and the answers given to the point that it becomes annoying. In fact, it would be annoying if the author's beliefs were exactly the opposite. I'd still find it unbearable to listen to. You can almost feel the author about to explode with questions and contempt while the "Evolutionist" is talking, while you can almost hear the gushing when the other guys pontificate about absurdities. To be fair, the author never claims to be 100% impartial, but he certainly stretches his apologies a bit too much for my taste. I want to conclude with a comment about the other posts. I think I'll print Ben's post and frame it. My goodness gracious! Can somebody be more clueless? "Evelution"? Seriously! That's just too perfect. Not only he can't spell, apparently he is not even smart enough to use a spell checker in his browser. And the "Fred Van West"dude is just too much? So you are an engineer? Fords and Chevys? Really? Sorry folks, but ID has no place in school except as a footnote. No more than Alchemy or Astrology. ID has just about as much scientific foundation as those two disciplines.By: Simon Prunty
Don't you just love irony? Here is another creationist/Intelligent design moron (which one is he? does it really matter?) throwing around his misinformed, uneducated criticisms of Evolution, and just to save the efforts of anybody willing to mock him he has gone ahead and done it himself, by spelling Evolution wrong every single time in his comment (It's called ''evelution'', according to this chimp). Amazing. These people make satirists obsolete. I'd love to believe this comment is a joke in itself and for his sake I hope it is, but I've seen this sort of stupidity from creationists too often to be tempted by that.By: ben
I hope everyone that listens to this book knows all the facts and how it takes faith to believe in evelution. Scientists say that evelution has been proven but the experiment lasted 2 days. They had a steak in a box and the next day flys where all over it. the scientists said it was evelution that caused it! The more we watch the universe and our knowledge expands on it, it all dissagrees with darwins ideas. And if humans and apes are so alike then wheres the civalized ape-man? or the crazy ape-human? there should be a fish with legs. or a land animal with no legs. so whats right evelution or creation?
Chapters
| Title | Description | Date Created |
| PZ Myers, An overview of Evolution and ID (14.49 MB) | In this opening chapter of Darwin or Design, I chat with Biologist and staunch Darwinist, PZ Myers. | Aug 14, 2007 |
| Sean Carroll, What is Evo Devo ? (18.58 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I chat with Evolutionary Biologist Sean Carroll. We talk about the field of evolutionary developmental biology and he brings us up to speed on what is happening in the field. | Aug 14, 2007 |
| Nick Matzke, Can the flagellum evolve (26.98 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I chat with for NCSE staff member Nick Matzke about research he did on understanding the evolutionary origins of the bacterial flagellum, that icon of the ID movement. | Aug 14, 2007 |
| Salvador Cordova, What is ID ? (18.63 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I chat with Salvador Cordova.Salvador Cordova is a consultant/engineer in the aerospace, defense and financial industry. He volunteers his time at various college campuses, meeting with students and professors who are interested in exploring the hypothesis of intelligent design. He has appeared on national TV, various radio shows, in newspaper articles, magazines, and books. Salvador and I talk about what ID is and how it works. | Aug 14, 2007 |
| Mike Behe, What is Irreducible Complexity ? (16.35 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Dr Mike Behe of Lehigh University. We talk about the different ideas in Dr Behe’s two books The Edge of Evolution and Darwin’s Black Box. | Aug 14, 2007 |
| Angus Menuge, Agency and how to identify it (16.92 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Dr Angus Menuge. Dr. Angus Menuge is co-Director of The Cranach Institute (www.cranach.org) and Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University Wisconsin. He was raised in England and became an American citizen in 2005. He holds a BA in philosophy from Warwick University, a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a DCA in apologetics from the International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism and Human Rights, Strasbourg, France. Dr. Menuge’s research interests include philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, Christianity and culture, and apologetics. He is editor of C. S. Lewis: Lightbearer in the Shadowlands (Crossway, 1997), Christ and Culture in Dialogue (Concordia Publishing House, 1999), and Reading God’s World: The Scientific Vocation (Concordia Publishing House, 2004). He is author of Agents Under Fire: Materialism and the Rationality of Science (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), Science and the Savior (Concordia Publishing House, 2004), Aslan’s World (Concordia Publishing House, 2006) and Christian Vocation (Concordia Publishing House, 2007). | Aug 14, 2007 |
| Guillermo Gonzalez, The Privileged Planet (15.97 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Dr Guillermo Gonzalez. We discuss the idea of a Privileged Planet, what it is and how it can be tested. | Aug 14, 2007 |
| Joey Campana, Does ID research actually exist ? (24.07 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Joey Campana. Joey is the designing mind behind the website ResearchID.org. This website functions as a clearing house for ID related research and he tells us all about it. | Aug 14, 2007 |
| James Shapiro, Sentient Cells ? (30.98 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Dr James Shapiro. Dr Shapiro is a part of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago. Dr Shapiro and I talk about his work on sentient cells and other radical ways for looking at how bacteria work. It should be noted that Dr Shapiro is not really an ID advocate but instead advances a non-Darwinian approach to evolution based on discoveries about natural genetic engineering. Dr Shapiro thinks the evidence for descent with modifications has been strengthened by genome sequencing but suspects that molecular genetics is inconsistent with Darwinian notions of gradualism and accidental genetic change. | Aug 14, 2007 |
| Mike Gene, What is Front Loading ? (21.63 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Mike Gene. We talk about Mike's forthcoming book The Design Matrix and we discuss the idea of front loading in biology. Mike contributes regularly to the blog Telic Thoughts as well. | Jun 13, 2008 |
| Elliot Sober, ID and the Philosophy of Science (9.86 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Dr Elliot Sober. Dr Sober has taught at University of Wisconsin Madison since 1974. He is currently Hans Reichenbach Professor of Philosophy and a William Vilas Research Professor. His research is in philosophy of science, especially in the philosophy of evolutionary biology. Sober's books include The Nature of Selection -- Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus (MIT Press, 1984; 2nd edition, University of Chicago Press, 1993), Reconstructing the Past -- Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference (MIT Press, 1988), Philosophy of Biology (Westview Press, 1993), >From a Biological Point of View -- Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1994), and, most recently (with David Sloan Wilson) Unto Others -- The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (Harvard University Press, 1998). | Jun 13, 2008 |
| Scott Turner, The problem of Design (22.01 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Dr Scott Turner. Dr Turner and I talk about the idea of Intelligent Design. Where it goes right and wrong and questions surrounding asking such questions. | Jun 13, 2008 |
| Glenn Morton, Can ID work in Biology ? (14.04 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Glenn Morton. Glenn and I talk about his take on the current ID debate and where he sees problems with the current approach. | Jun 13, 2008 |
| Ryan Nichols, Are ID and Theology Inseperable? (13.25 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Dr Ryan Nichols. Dr Nichols wrote an interesting paper called Scientific content, testability, and the vacuity of Intelligent Design. So we chat about that. | Jun 13, 2008 |
| Georgia Purdom, Isn't ID just Creationism in Disguise? (19.91 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Dr Georgia Purdom. Dr Purdom works for Answers in Genesis and is a molecular geneticist and bona fide Young Earth Creationist. I talk to her about the similarities and the differences between ID and YEC and where she thinks ID falls short. | Jun 13, 2008 |
| David Livingstone, Evolution and Christianity, The History (29.88 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Dr David Livingstone. Dr Livingstone teaches at the Queens University in Belfast and he talks to us about the history of evolution and Christianity and the interaction between the two. | Jun 13, 2008 |
| Del Ratzsch, Can ID be Science ? (23.47 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Dr Del Ratzsch. Dr Ratzsch is a philosopher of science and joins us to talk about whether or not intelligent design can be science or not. | Jun 13, 2008 |
| Massimo Pigliucci, Evolutionary Epistemology and ID (26.16 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Dr Massimo Pigliucci. Dr Pigliucci is a Professor of Ecology and Evolution as well as of Philosophy at Stony Brook University in New York. His research is on questions of nature vs. nurture and on the conceptual issues in evolutionary theory.He received a Doctorate in Genetics from the University of Ferrara in Italy, a PhD in Botany from the University of Connecticut, and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee. He has published more than 75 technical papers and several books on evolutionary biology. His most recent technical book is Making Sense of Evolution: Toward a Coherent Picture of Evolutionary Theory. Prof. Pigliucci has been awarded the prestigious Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution.In 2004 he has been elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement ofScience for fundamental studies of genotype by environmental interactions and for public defense of evolutionary biology from pseudoscientific attack. | Jun 13, 2008 |
| Henry Schaefer, Science and Religion (13.43 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Dr Henry Schaefer. Dr Schaefer and I discuss the idea of science and religion with a particular emphasis on the relationship of Christianity to science from Dr Schaefer's perspective. | Jun 13, 2008 |
| Donald McConnell, Intelligent Design, Creationism and The Law (31.78 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Dean Donald McConnell of Trinity Law School. We talk about ID, Creationism and the Law. Professor McConnell practiced real estate litigation with the firm of Harbin & Frost. previously he was with Baker, Hostetler, McCutchen, Black, where he practiced personal injury defense and commercial shipping litigation, including representation of Underwriters of Lloyds of London defending their insured companies and vessels. Professor McConnell has taught at Trinity Law School since 1988. He is a past recipient of the Teacher of the Year Award. Professor McConnell teaches Legal Institutions and Values. | Jun 13, 2008 |
| Steve Fuller, ID and Social Epistemology (17.57 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Dr Steve Fuller. We discuss the idea of Social Epistemology, what it is and how it is relevant to the question of Intelligent Design. Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, England. Originally trained in history and philosophy of science, he is best known for the research programme of 'social epistemology', which is the title of a journal he founded in 1987 and the first of his dozen books. His most recent books relevant to the interview are Science vs. Religion? Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution (Polity, 2007) and The Knowledge Book: Key Concepts in Philosophy, Science and Culture (Acumen and McGill-Queens University Press, 2007). | Jun 13, 2008 |
| John Davison, The Price of Dissent (27.63 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Dr John Davison. Dr Davison has dissented from the Darwinian conception of origins for all of his academic career. Something of a maverick Dr Davison seems to attract critics from both sides of the fence but does have some interesting ideas. | Jun 13, 2008 |
| Denyse O'Leary, ID and The Media (20.93 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Denyse O'Leary. Denyse O'Leary is a Canadian author, journalist, and blogger. We talk about Intelligent Design and the media from her unique perspective | Jun 13, 2008 |
| Geoff Simmons, Darwinism, ID and Medicine (25.34 MB) | In this chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with Geoff Simmons M.D. Geoff Simmons is a practicing medical doctor and a author, so we talk about his recent books and the relevance of Darwinism to his practice as a doctor. | Jun 13, 2008 |
| Rob Sawyer, Calculating God (23.31 MB) | In the last chapter of Darwin or Design, I talk with science fiction author Rob Sawyer about his book Calculating God and his thoughts on the ID movement. | Jun 13, 2008 |