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Some Questions About Design

fine tuning argument, intelligent design, questions

Fine-tuning and Intelligent Life

I've been thinking about the fine tuning argument, and while I like it and think it carries some weight, something about it bothers me. It seems to suffer from "life chauvinism." In a poker hand a royal flush has intrinsic value and thus being dealt that ...

arguments for the existence of god, fine tuning argument, intelligent design, teleology

Evolution and Skepticism

creation, darwinian evolution, evolution, intelligent design, skepticism

Is Intelligent Design Viable? The Craig-Ayala Debate

evolution, fine tuning argument, francisco ayala, intelligent design

Nature’s Flaws and Cruelties

In your debate with Francisco Ayala on "Is Intelligent Design Viable?" you responded to his objection that the design flaws and cruel animal behaviors in nature are incompatible with an all-good and all-powerful Designer by distinguishing between the scientifi...

causation, darwinian evolution, evil, evolution, intelligent design, problem of evil

Design Inferences and Familiarity

Dr. Craig - I recently watched a video of a lecture you gave wherein you explained that an explanation does not require an explanation. You then go on to argue that if a team of archaeologists digging in the Earth were to discover artifacts resembling tomahaw...

atheism, epistemology, intelligent design, richard dawkins

Fine-Tuning and Improbability

Dr. Craig, I'm interested in how the teleological argument can escape the criticism of some who would argue that if an infinitesimally improbable event such as a finely-tuned Universe could warrant belief in a God, then how what about other incomprehensib...

cosmology, fine tuning argument, intelligent design, origin of the universe

Scepticism about Neo-Darwinism Re-Visited

Hello Dr. Craig,Like many people in the so-called creationism/evolution debate you seem to confound science and philosophy. Surely you appreciate, that, even if you're a theist, you can't bring God into science, because you stop doing science. Once you invoke ...

darwinian evolution, evolution, intelligent design, methological naturalism, origin of the universe

Scepticism about the Neo-Darwinian Paradigm

Dr Craig as a fellow Christian but also one with a keen interest in science I was very disappointed by your recent podcast on the doctrine of creation. You seem to express considerable skepticism of macroevolution, which has in fact been frequently observed. M...

creation ex nihilo, darwinian evolution, evolution, intelligent design, naturalism

Probability of Fine-Tuning

Dear Dr. Craig, I had a question about the argument from fine-tuning, specifically regarding the values of certain constants. I’m in the middle of an undergrad program in Physics, and so I’m familiar with many fundamental constants of the universe...

cosmology, fine tuning argument, intelligent design, origin of the universe