Aquinas, Darwin, and Creation: Is Evolution at Odds with Genesis? | Prof. Kenneth Kemp
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🗓️ 28 March 2022
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This lecture was given on February 8, 2022 at the University of Georgia. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Kenneth W. Kemp is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a Fellow of that University’s Center for Catholic Studies. His education includes an M.A. in the History and Philosophy of Science as well as a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. His research work has included ethics (in particular questions of morality and war) and historical and philosophical inquiry into the relations between science and religion (with a particular focus on the theory of evolution).
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| 0:08.0 | So the idea that the evolutionary account of the origin of biological species |
| 0:18.0 | contradicts the doctrine of creation that's presented in Genesis the idea that |
| 0:22.5 | prompted the sub-tidal tonight's talk does seem to want a certain level of acceptance |
| 0:27.9 | when a few research center poll on what Americans thought about the biblical doctrine of creation |
| 0:34.1 | and Darwin's theory of evolution showed that many people thought both were true. |
| 0:40.2 | The center said in a press release that since creationism and evolution are incompatible as |
| 0:45.0 | explanations, some portion of the public is clearly confused about the meaning of the terms. |
| 0:52.0 | In fact, that portion of the public are not the only ones who see no such |
| 0:57.0 | incompatibility. The late Theodosius Dobjansky, one of the 20th centuries leading evolutionary |
| 1:04.0 | biologists, in a 1973 article of most people like to quote for its title, namely that nothing in biology makes sense |
| 1:12.4 | except in the light of evolution, said, it's wrong to hold creation and evolution as mutually |
| 1:18.5 | exclusive alternatives. I'm a creationist and an evolutionist. He said, St. John Paul |
| 1:26.0 | 2nd made the same point, though in different words, |
| 1:29.3 | in an address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in 1996. |
| 1:34.3 | Whether evolution is at all, with Genesis, depends on what one means why evolution, |
| 1:39.3 | and what Genesis really says. |
| 1:41.3 | So this lecture will have three parts. |
| 1:45.0 | The first part will clarify the idea of evolution by situating Charles Darwin's |
| 1:50.0 | evolutionary theory of the origin of biological species into its larger scientific |
| 1:55.0 | context and will say something about why the theory has earned general acceptance among scientists. |
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