God’s Grandeur: Ann Gauger on Beauty, Intelligibility, and Human Uniqueness

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Science, Philosophy, Astronomy, Society & Culture, Life Sciences

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🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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On this episode of ID The Future, host Jay Richards concludes a two-part conversation with Ann Gauger about her newly edited volume God's Grandeur: The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design. Part 1 of their discussion focuses on the philosophical and theological arguments for intelligent design presented in the book. Gauger holds that Darwinism has no adequate explanation for natural beauty or the ability of human beings to appreciate beauty for its own sake. She also argues that we have no reason to expect human uniqueness or intelligibility in the universe outside a design paradigm. This is Part 2 of a conversation. Visit GodsGrandeur.org to learn more and download a free chapter!

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:10.0	Hi this is Jay Richards, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture,
0:18.0	and I am joined today by a colleague also at the Discovery Institute Center for Science and Culture,
0:22.8	Ann Gager.
0:24.1	Anne is a biologist and has a very impressive bio and record,
0:29.6	but I described that in our previous episode in which we talked about this brand new book.
0:35.8	It's just out this April that Anne was the editor of, it is called God's Grandeur,
0:41.6	the Catholic case for intelligent design, and as I mentioned
0:44.8	is both the editor, also multiple contributor to this volume, God's Grandeur, but
0:49.8	some of the people that contribute to this, I didn't mention in the previous episode,
0:54.0	people like Michael Behi, of course,
0:55.9	the author of Garin's Black Box and Darwin Duvals.
0:58.7	Michael Agnor, who is a pediatric neurosurgeon
1:02.4	and common contributor to evolution use and views.
1:06.4	Friend John Bergma, who's a theologian from Franciscan University in Steubenville,
1:11.7	Father Pedro Baryon, yours truly, Father Michael
1:15.5	Haberik, Ben Liker, who is also at the Franciscan University in Steubenville,
1:20.3	Jay Boudchezevsky, philosopher, the University of Texas, Bruce Chapman, the former president,
1:26.3	co-founder of Discovery Institute, and Logan Gage, also a professor of philosophy at Franciscan.
1:31.8	So actually we've got a lot of good folks from
1:34.2	Franciscan University in Steubenville in this volume. We also have Anthony
1:39.1	Eslan who's a popular Catholic author and professor.
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