Michael Ruse
Michael Ruse
Michael Ruse, FRSCis a philosopher of science who specializes in the philosophy of biology and is well known for his work on the relationship between science and religion, the creation–evolution controversy, and the demarcation problem within science. Ruse currently teaches at Florida State University. He was born in England, attending Bootham School, York. He took his undergraduate degree at the University of Bristol, his master's degree at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, and Ph.D. at the University of Bristol...
biology legitimate people perfectly talk teenagers
It's perfectly legitimate to talk about intelligent design. I think teenagers are the very people who should talk about this issue, but I don't think there's a place for it in the biology class.
biology design taught
I think intelligent design should not be taught in the biology classroom.
evolution
I do not see evolution as something that is anti-religion.
debate divide evolution exposed
The evolution debate has exposed a fundamental divide in our society,
amount anybody certain scientists simply
At one level, scientists are just simply (angry). Anybody would feel a certain amount of indignation in being told they don't know what they are doing.
conceptual design empirical genuine reason theory whatsoever
We find no empirical or conceptual reason whatsoever to think of intelligent design theory as genuine science.
today creation-science evolution
Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.
christian alternatives today
Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex-Christian, but I must admit that in this one complaint - ...and Mr. Gish is but one of many to make it - the literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution today.
religious believe want
...I really want to believe. I find the goodies offered by Christianity extremely attractive. But I am damned (again!) if I am going to sell my evolutionary birthright for a mess of religious pottage.
philosophical party mean
Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and that is wrong. I don't think a billion buckets of science could speak to the problems raised by the Tea Party. Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that the only truths are those of science. I think the claim just made in the last sentence is true but I don't think it is a claim of science. It means that you use science where you can and you respect and try to emulate its standards.
philosophical party mean
Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and that is wrong. I don't think a billion buckets of science could speak to the problems raised by the Tea Party. Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that the only truths are those of science. I think the claim just made in the last sentence is true but I don't think it is a claim of science. It means that you use science where you can and you respect and try to emulate its standards.
religious lying stories
In particular, I argue that in both evolution and creation we have rival religious responses to a crisis of faith-rival stories of origins, rival judgments about he meaning of human life, rival sets of moral dictates, and above all what theologians call rival eschatologies-pictures of the future and of what lies ahead for humankind.
religious atheist philosophy
Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion would fail any introductory philosophy or religion course. Proudly he criticizes that whereof he knows nothing.
atheist embarrassed delusion
The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why.