Beliefs
A theology which believes there is a God who made the world and then stepped back and did not get involved with it.
Deism
A 19th century English naturalist who established the idea that all species originated through an evolutionary process from common beginnings.
Charles Darwin
"I am still a creationist and now I am also an evolutionist."
Emilio
-Making "time" the main argument.
-Assuming God made the laws and then retired.
-Giving away the realm of reason.
Emilio's 3 mistakes
An unguided and mindless process that is the subject of the book Defeating Darwinism
Evolution
The philosophy that nothing exists outside of matter.
Materialism
A 20th century popular astronomer and science populizer who told everyone he was worried about how easily people get swayed by non-scientific claims, such as the belief in God.
Carl Sagan
Who's quote, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free" is referenced in Inherit the Wind?
Apostle John
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A person who goes along with the group
Conformist
The idea that everything, including our brains, can be reduced to its material base.
Reductionism
A prominent speaker at the Darwin Centennial Celebration, a British biologist, philosopher & world statesman who was the founder of agnosticism.
Julian Huxley
"In science, there are no authorities; at most, there are experts."
Carl Sagan
Five of these nine are:
1. Selective Use of Evidence
2. Ad Hominen Arguments
3. Begging the Question
4. Lack of Testability
5. Trustworthy Experts
Types of bologna (Sagan's list of)
Having control over what the public gets to hear or doesn't get to hear.
The idea that everybody's point of view has its own truth and that there is no absolute truth.
Relativism
Molecular biologist who writes about opening the black box of a cell, revealing what's inside on a molecular level.
Michael Behe
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself- and you are the easiest person to fool."
Richard Feynman
Five of these nine are:
1. Lack of Mechanism
2. Complexities of Variation
3. Lack of Transitional Fossils
4. Cambrian Explosion
5. Advances in Embryology & Genetics
Wedges (Johnson's idea of building the wedge)
A person that believes the existence of God cannot be known.
Agnostic
The notion that creation happened without God-sometimes used with natural selection theories, sometimes using E.T.s
Naturalistic creation
One of the world's most respected and influential evolutionary biologists who pioneered the idea of gene selection being part of Darwinism.
George C Williams
"Theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider the spirit as emerging from the forces of living matter or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter, are incompatible with the truth about man."
Pope John Paul II
The 3 pivotal moments in American History that demonstrate how our society has changed.
3. School Prayer Decision
A layer of fossils (deep under the layers of rock under the sea) where the fossils of a multitude of animal groups suddenly appear.
Cambrian Explosion