Classroom Conversations: Rethinking Evolution
In this fourth episode of the “Classroom Conversations” series, Aaron and two student co-hosts, Chase Czaykowsky and Elaina Bergondo, discuss the theory of biological evolution. They discuss whether Christians should accept it, reject it, or relate to it in some other way.
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Notes
- The two textbooks used in this class are:
- Brand, L., Chadwick, A (2016). Faith, reason, and earth history: a paradigm of earth and biological origins by intelligent design (3rd ed.). Andrews University Press.
- Free eBook in several formats available here.
- Gibson, L. J., & Rasi, M. R. (Eds.). (2011). Understanding creation: Answers to questions on faith and science. Pacific Press Publishing Association
- Brand, L., Chadwick, A (2016). Faith, reason, and earth history: a paradigm of earth and biological origins by intelligent design (3rd ed.). Andrews University Press.
- The Dr. Marcus Ross paper mentioned is:
- Ross, M. R. (2016). Who Believes What? Clearing up Confusion over Intelligent Design and Young-Earth Creationism. Journal of Geoscience Education, 53(3), 319–323. https://doi.org/10.5408/1089-9995-53.3.319
- Michael Behe’s latest book is:
- Behe, M. J. (2019). Darwin Devolves: The New Science about DNA that Challenges Evolution. HarperCollins.
- The young-earth creationist who is comfortable with all whales having a land-dwelling common ancestor is Dr. Kurt Wise.
- “Vestigial legs and hips in modern whales confirm legged ancestors of the whales existed only a short time ago. It is possible that the purely marine cetaceans of the present were derived from semi-aquatic or even terrestrial ancestors on the ark.”
- Wise, K. P. (2009). Mammal Kinds: How Many Were on the Ark? In Wood, T. C., & Garner, P. A. (Eds.). Genesis kinds: Creationism and the origin of species(Vol. 5). Wipf and Stock Publishers.
- For more on Thomas Kuhn and paradigm shifts see this Wikipedia entry.
- “Vestigial legs and hips in modern whales confirm legged ancestors of the whales existed only a short time ago. It is possible that the purely marine cetaceans of the present were derived from semi-aquatic or even terrestrial ancestors on the ark.”
Credits
- Audio production: Aaron Corbit
- Music: “Perspectives” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
