Creation and Evolution: Answers to Different Questions | Prof. Kenneth Kemp

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🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This lecture was given on January 25, 2021 to West Virginia University.

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About the Speaker:

Kenneth W. Kemp is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a Fellow of that University’s Center for Catholic Studies. His education includes an M.A. in the History and Philosophy of Science as well as a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. His research work has included ethics (in particular questions of morality and war) and historical and philosophical inquiry into the relations between science and religion (with a particular focus on the theory of evolution).

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0:00.0	Okay, so it's popular to contrast evolutionism and creationism as contradictory ideas.
0:07.7	I think that's completely mistaken.
0:10.2	I'm not the only one who thinks so.
0:11.6	In the late Theodosius Stubjansky, one of the 20th centuries leading evolutionary biologists,
0:18.2	in a 1973 article that most people like to quote for its title namely that
0:23.1	nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution said near the end of the article
0:29.0	it's wrong to hold creation and evolution as mutually exclusive alternatives i'm a creationist
0:35.0	and an evolutionist on al that was Tomjansky.
0:38.5	Not only, or are they not contradictory,
0:40.9	they aren't even answers to the same question.
0:43.7	That'll be my theme of this evening's talk.
0:48.5	The talk will have two parts.
0:50.7	And the first part, I'll try to bring some precision
0:52.7	to the term evolution in the process of doing so, I'll also say something about why evolutionary account of the origin of biological species
1:04.0	assert general acceptance among scientists.
1:07.0	In the second part, I'll try to bring some precision to the term creation.
1:12.8	This should make clear the truth of my claim that the two theories are complementary and not contradictory.
1:20.1	So, I want to begin my saying word about what evolution is not.
1:24.0	For too many people, the word calls to mind an idea of a cosmical process, one in continuous from nebula and a man, from star to soul, from atom to society.
1:38.3	There have, to be sure, been thinkers who have advanced such a cosmic vision in the world.
1:43.3	This was done in a materialistic way by a German biologist, Ernst Heckel,
1:48.7	and my English philosopher Herbert Spencer in the 19th century.
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