Aquinas, Creation, and Intelligent Design | Professor Francis Beckwith

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🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This lecture was given at New York University on February 10, 2023. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies and Affiliate Professor of Political Science at Baylor University, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy. Among his over one dozen books are Never Doubt Thomas: The Catholic Aquinas as Evangelical and Protestant (Baylor University Press, 2019), Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith (Cambridge University Press, 2015), winner of the American Academy of Religion's prestigious 2016 Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Constructive-Reflective Studies. He is a graduate of the Washington University School of Law, St. Louis (MJS) as well as Fordham University (PhD, MA, philosophy).

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1:13.9	It's great to be at New York University.
1:15.2	I am a New Yorker.
1:17.5	I was born in Brooklyn.
1:20.9	Did my doctorate at Fordham.
1:23.0	But grew up in Las Vegas.
1:27.0	Actually, no one really grows up in Las Vegas, do they?
1:32.1	So this evening, I'm going to talk about something,
1:36.5	a topic that I've been interested in for over 20 years.
1:51.2	In the late 1990s, in at least American evangelicalism, that is the segment of American Christianity that tends to be conservative Protestant. There was a movement began and still exists called the Intelligent
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