The December, 2005, issue of The Faculty Voice, the faculty newspaper of the University of Maryland, included an article by Professor Stephen Brush listing his objections to intelligent design. The article appeared at a time when the topic was receiving a great deal of attention due to the lawsuit against the Dover, Pennsylvania, school board.
My response, published in the next issue, argued that the dispute is a philosophical one about human reason. On one side is the positivist view that reality is limited to what modern science can observe and deduce. On the other side is a philosophy that not only accepts scientific discoveries but also critically examines and refines the evidence of everyday experience to form a more complete view of reality.
My response did not give credit to many things I have read recently about the debate over evolution. An important influence was The Designs of Science, by Christoph Cardinal Schonborn, First Things, January 2006.
The relevant issues of The Faculty Voice (in PDF format) can be found here: December 2005 and March 2006.
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