Michael Behe and Matthew Ramage Debate Evolution and ID, Pt. 1

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Today’s ID the Future brings the first part of a friendly debate/discussion between Lehigh University biologist and intelligent design proponent Michael Behe and Catholic theologian Matthew Ramage. Led by Philosophy for the People podcast host Pat Flynn, Behe starts by noting that he is a lifelong Catholic who accepted from childhood that, as he was taught in school, if God wanted to work through the secondary causes of Darwinian evolutionary mechanisms to generate the diversity of life, who were we to tell him he shouldn’t or couldn’t do it that way? Behe says that his skepticism toward Neo-Darwinism arose many years later and stemmed purely from his scientific research. Ramage, who specializes in the work of Pope Benedict XVI, sees Read More ›

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.4	The question may sound familiar, is intelligent design credible, but this conversation is different.
0:19.0	Hello, I'm Tom Gilson and in today's rather unique podcast conversation
0:24.4	Dr Michael Beehe speaks for intelligent design as one of the original thought
0:29.7	leaders in today's ID movement but he's also a lifelong Roman Catholic which is more
0:35.5	than relevant here today because he's speaking with Dr Matthew Ramage,
0:40.1	professor of theology at Benedictine College, and author of a recent book
0:45.5	exploring evolution in light of the Bible and the teachings of Pope Benedict 16.
0:51.2	They're hosted by Pat Flynn on his Philosophy for the People
0:56.0	Podcast and the question is whether idea is credible not only in the light of
1:01.0	science but also philosophy and theology.
1:05.0	Okay everybody welcome back to the podcast we have an exciting dialogue today and I have two
1:10.1	returning guests who've been on separately but now they are together we have
1:13.1	Dr Matthew Ramage and Dr Michael Bihy and we're gonna talk about the theory of
1:18.2	intelligent design today and I'll do a little stage setting up first
1:22.2	Dr Ramage has been on my show maybe two or and I'll do a little stage setting up first.
1:22.9	Dr. Ramage has been on my show,
1:24.4	maybe two or three times now.
1:25.8	I forget how many, but we've always had great discussions
1:28.3	on different topics.
1:29.6	You're a great generalist, Dr. Ramage.
1:31.2	You have a lot to say on a lot of different things so it's
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