Last time, we noted the surprising fact that Thomist fans of the Argument from Design and partisans of Intelligent Design don’t see eye to eye. This confuses many people, who ask the very reasonable ...

As we saw last time, the First Cause Argument, taken in isolation, gives a solid—but still pretty chilly and abstract—picture of a God who, at least, exists. But a God who merely exists is not ...

Sober has reconstructed the biological design argument in the framework of likelihoodism, purporting to demonstrate that it is defective for intrinsic reasons. We argue that Sober’s restriction on the ...

Since one form or another of the “intelligent design” argument is from at least the Middle Ages, I would be disappointed if it were not included in a philosophy class. I would support parents who ...

Design is as much a process as it is an end product. And it should be a process that designers and clients resolve to make simple. What is design? It’s art and commerce, fashion and environment. It’s ...

The Galápagos tortoise helped Charles Darwin formulate his theory of evolution. So did the work of theologian William Paley. (Reuters) Creationism continues to have currency among a significant ...

Each year I ask my students to devise arguments for God. They respond less like well diggers than like beachcombers, gathering bits of evidence. Many people have an intuition that the natural world ...