How Modern Science Resolves the Dilemma Over Evolution

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 16 July 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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If theistic evolution doesn’t work, and Darwinian evolution is scientifically inadequate, what alternative framework better explains the origin of life and the universe? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his two-part conversation with Father Michal Chaberek and Steve Greene, authors of a new book called Creation or Evolution? A Catholic Dilemma. In Part 1, the discussion centered on why evolution became a dilemma for many Catholics. Part 2 explores the obvious follow-up questions: what does modern science actually reveal? Does the evolutionary story satisfy the evidence? And if not, what is the more adequate explanation? Fr. Chaberek and Greene review just a few of the many lines of scientific evidence suggesting that a Darwinian process in wholly incapable of producing life as we know it. Source

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0:00.0	And so over and over and over again, yeah, science has simply said Darwinism is a failed hypothesis.
0:06.0	It works fairly well at a micro-evolutionary level, adaptation at the level of species and genus.
0:12.0	But in terms of building new kinds of living things, it's a failed hypothesis.
0:16.9	It just does not work.
0:18.7	ID, the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:25.0	Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermott.
0:28.4	Today I conclude my two-part conversation with Father Michael Haberick and Steve Green,
0:34.1	authors of a new book called Creation or Evolution, a Catholic Dilemma.
0:39.3	Father Hiberik is a Dominican friar of the Polish province with a doctorate in systematic
0:44.3	theology from Cardinal Stefan Wuzinski University in Warsaw.
0:49.3	He directs the Steno Institute for Faith and Science.
0:52.3	He has published three books in English and many articles
0:55.6	on the Faith Science Dialogue. He seeks to renew the Catholic theology of creation through
1:00.9	a new intelligent design and progressive creation paradigm. Steve Green is director of Holy
1:07.0	Family Institute of Catholic Faith and Life and host of the reasonably rational YouTube
1:12.3	podcast. He has taught philosophy, theology, and ethics for a variety of institutions and
1:18.0	presents regularly on issues of faith, science, and culture. Gentlemen, welcome back.
1:24.0	Thanks so much, Andrew. Thank you for inviting us. Yeah, it's great to have you.
1:28.5	Well, last time we discussed why evolution became a dilemma for many Catholics.
1:34.3	And today we're exploring a follow-up question to that.
1:37.2	What does modern science actually reveal?
1:40.0	Does the evolutionary story satisfy the evidence?
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