Description

• Title:
  Is Intelligent Design the Answer to Darwinism? Marcos Eberlin’s Foresight and the Limits of Irreducible Complexity as Scientific Paradigm
• Creator:
  Morgan, Jason Michael
• Description:
  Marcos Eberlin is a chemist and mass spectrometer who advances in a new book a refined Intelligent Design (ID) theory hinging on “foresight,” or the apparent teleology and purpose discernible in biological, chemical, and other complex life systems. Repurposing older ID arguments, such as those of “irreducible complexity,” and introducing new examples of phenomena pointed to by other ID theorists, Eberlin makes a strong argument for mindful creation by a “superintellect”. But is ID sufficient to answer Darwinism? Does “foresight” go far enough in providing an alternative view of the origin of complex lifeforms? I argue that Eberlin, and other ID theorists, does not have a robust-enough definition of science to counter non-theistic theories of biology and biochemistry. An Aristotelian-Thomistic understanding of science allows us to go beyond the divide between ID and a-theistic theories and move the science-and-faith debate onto more solid ground.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2020 Scientia et Fides;
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2020.10.30
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Review essay
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Scientia et Fides; Vol. 8 No. 2 (2020): Philosophical and Theological Aspects of Evolution; 393-402;
  Scientia et Fides; Tom 8 Nr 2 (2020): Philosophical and Theological Aspects of Evolution; 393-402;
  2353-5636;
  2300-7648
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/SetF.2020.027/26913
• Subject:
  Intelligent Design;
  foresight;
  biochemistry;
  irreducible complexity;
  Aristotle;
  Aquinas
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/SetF.2020.027
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  other