I. D.D. The future. A podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

Did Darwin use theological arguments?

Hello and welcome to I.

The future, I'm Casey Laskin, and today I'm speaking with Cornelia's

Hunter who holds a PhD in biophysics and computational biology from the University of Illinois and is the

author of multiple books covering the topic of Darwin and intelligent design including Darwin's

God evolution and the problem of evil.

Darwin's proof, the triumph of religion over science,

and science is blind spot the unseen religion of scientific naturalism.

So Dr. Hunter, thanks for coming on the show with us today.

Thank you, Casey. It's my pleasure. Well, we're here today to discuss your

contribution to the book The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith,

exploring the ultimate questions about life and the

Cosmos, which is published by Harvest House. I'm a co-editor of the book along with Bill

Dembski and Joseph Holden. I certainly hope you'll check it out. It's available on Amazon. It has contributions for many leading ID scientists, not just Cornelius Hunter, but also Stephen Meyer, Michael Behe, Douglas Acts Ag, Jonathan Wells, J Richards, Girma Gonzalez,

Michael Eignor, Walter Bradley, Robert Marks, Brian Miller,

and many others.

Your contribution, Dr Hunter, I think, was a very unique one to the book and that it addressed

whether Darwin made theological assumptions in his research. And there's their stereotype in the world

today that evolution is science and devoid of all theology

and that anything that challenges evolution is theology that is devoid of all science.

But your chapter really challenges that stereotype and then it talks about how those lines are often blurred and I'd like to discuss that with you today. So in your chapter you do sort of a rhetorical analysis of Darwin's famous book origin of species and you find that he often uses what you call

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