On Creationism

Neil Thomas is the new poster boy for the ID movement. He has published a book " Taking Leave of Darwin: A Longtime Agnostic Discovers the Case for Design " with the Discovery Institute (DI), and is writing a series of articles for their web site. But who is he? They conveniently tell us : Neil Thomas is a Reader Emeritus in the University of Durham, England and a longtime member of the British Rationalist Association. He studied Classical Studies and European Languages at the universities of Oxford, Munich and Cardiff before taking up his post in the German section of the School of European Languages and Literatures at Durham University in 1976. There his teaching involved a broad spectrum of specialisms including Germanic philology, medieval literature, the literature and philosophy of the Enlightenment and modern German history and literature. He also taught modules on the propagandist use of the German language used both by the Nazis and by the functionaries of the old Ge...

This is a response to an article in Mind Matters News, by Michael Egnor. It is not a million miles from CS Lewis' argument. The article is here: https://mindmatters.ai/2022/02/faith-in-god-is-the-only-coherent-basis-for-reason/ He starts: Atheists commonly assert that there is a profound dichotomy between faith and reason. This is exemplified by atheist evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne ’s book Faith vs. Fact. He implies that we can have faith in the truth of something or we can have factual knowledge of the truth but we cannot have both. Faith and fact are, in his view, mutually exclusive. But that is not true. Faith can have several meanings. I would suggest that Coyne is saying that if we have reason to believe something then faith is superfluous. Therefore, you either believe a claim is true because you have reason to think it is true, or you believe despite having no reason, and that is faith. In this sense the two are mutually exclusive. One may ask: how do we know that what...