{"id":243,"date":"2017-04-01T02:29:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T06:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2017-04-22T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T13:49:00","slug":"idnaturalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/01\/idnaturalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent Design leaders promote a naturalistic epistemology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Knowledge-Missing-Link.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-244 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Knowledge-Missing-Link.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the pdf of the article published in the Journal of Creation: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianciv.com\/IDnaturalism.pdf\">\u201cIntelligent Design leaders promote a naturalistic epistemology\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abstract: \u00a0In part 1, I show that Intelligent Design (ID) movement leaders promote a naturalistic worldview in two ways. First, they claim that ID is compatible with atheism because the designer of life on earth could be a finite designer, like a space alien in a world without God, which concedes the reasonableness of the naturalistic worldview that the universe is ultimately determined by matter rather than a Mind. Second, they promote a definition of science and an empiricist view of knowledge that exclude the authority of divine revelation, thus conceding that science and knowledge can be explained without God. \u00a0But, I then briefly explain, the secular empiricist view of knowledge has been a failure. In part 2, I argue that science is dependent on God and His revelation, not a supposedly theologically neutral scientific methodology. Despite his claim that ID is compatible with atheism, I show how ID leader William Dembski\u2019s view of complex specified information is comparable to and only consistent with an intelligent Creator who is the source of human knowledge and the unity and diversity of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the pdf of the article published in the Journal of Creation: \u00a0\u201cIntelligent Design leaders promote a naturalistic epistemology\u201d Abstract: \u00a0In part 1, I show that Intelligent Design (ID) movement leaders promote a naturalistic worldview in two ways. First, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/01\/idnaturalism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"http:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianciv.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}