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Classic Replay: Mike Behe vs Michael Reiss on Intelligent Design

Unbelievable?

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

First broadcast in Nov 2010. Recorded in front of a live audience at Charles Darwin House in London as part of a UK tour by Intelligent Design proponent Mike Behe. He engages with noted scientist and priest Michael Reiss an advocate of theistic evolution. More Resources: • For exclusive resources and to support us: USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow Rest of the World: https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable • For our regular Newsletter: https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter • For more faith debates: http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable • Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UnbelievableJB • Twitter https://twitter.com/unbelievablejb • Insta https://www.instagram.com/justin.brierley

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Unbelievable with Justin Browley.

0:18.8

Hello and welcome to this week's classic replay.

0:21.0

It's Justin here to introduce today's show from the archive.

0:24.4

Now this was a really memorable one recorded in front of a live audience at Charles Darwin

0:29.0

House in London back in November 2010.

0:31.9

It was part of a UK tour by intelligent design proponent Mike Behe.

0:36.7

And I had the opportunity to bring him together with noted scientist and priest Michael Rice,

0:41.8

an advocate of theistic evolution.

0:44.1

I do hope you enjoy their interaction.

0:46.8

Thanks for tuning in and don't forget you can find many more shows from the unbelievable

0:50.5

podcast archive at premierchristianradio.com slash unbelievable.

0:55.7

I'm going to concentrate on the question should intelligent design be taught as science

1:02.7

because I think that's the controversial part of it.

1:06.6

And my answer is a qualified yes.

1:09.4

If any other theory that purports to explain the appearance of design in nature is taught

1:14.8

as science, then yes it should be.

1:18.8

And the arguments I'm going to use today have been published in a book called Divine Action

1:23.4

and Natural Selection about a year ago and this is taken from my chapter in that book.

1:29.1

And in that I noted that science, the word science is not co extensive with rationality.

1:36.2

Science is the activity of investigating nature by means of systematic observation, measurement

1:41.4

and classification.

1:43.5

But other modes of reasoning are more fundamental than science.

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