A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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For too long now, Catholic scholars and many of the faithful have felt compelled to align themselves with a Darwinian account of life's origins. But as modern evolutionary theory faces a rising wave of disconfirming evidence, the evidence for both intelligent design and a first human couple, Adam and Eve, is stronger than ever. So it's a good time for Catholics to reevaluate their relationship with Darwin. On this ID The Future, physicist Dr. Brian Miller welcomes Father Martin Hilbert to the podcast to discuss his new book A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design. Source

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0:00.0	ID The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:11.9	Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Brian Miller.
0:16.0	Today I'll be interviewing Father Martin Hilbert about his recent book, A Catholic Case for Intelligent
0:21.3	Design.
0:22.5	Father Martin was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and as a child, he migrated to Canada after
0:27.8	the Soviet Union invaded his nation.
0:30.6	He has a Master's of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in the History
0:36.2	in Philosophy of science from the University
0:38.0	of Toronto. Father Martin studied for the priesthood at St. Philip's seminary where he now teaches
0:44.4	a course in the philosophy of science. He is a priest of the oratory of St. Philip Nari in Toronto.
0:52.6	Father Martin, thank you for joining me.
0:54.8	Delighted to be here, Brian.
0:57.1	Now, I think a great place for us to begin would be at the beginning of the book, where you
1:01.3	describe what motivated you for writing this book.
1:04.3	Could you please share that story with us?
1:06.6	Sure.
1:07.5	It's actually really the third part of my motivation.
1:10.4	I've been interested in this for the greater part of my life because I always took science seriously, and I realized that here, Darwinism was an alternative creation account. And if it was true, I really could not see how the Christian worldview was true. And if Darwinism was true, I don't see how we could have arguments for natural law
1:31.0	and all those very other, all those important things for a ordered society.
1:38.2	So that was always a question of my mind.
1:41.6	Then I read Christopher Bagelow's book about faith and science in the cutting edge,
1:50.2	and I realized that there are serious flaws with the Darwinian account as he presents it,
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