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Leader in the Voice for Intelligent Design
Who: Dr. J. P.
Moreland
Where: Talbot School of Theology
What: Philosophy with research in philosophical naturalism and
the mind-body problem
How does the concept of intelligent design relate to your work?
My view is that because human beings have minds different than their
brains, naturalism isn't adequate to explain where we came from. The
best explanation for the origin of our mental life, our mental self, is
there is a big mental Self who created it. I've also done work as to why
naturalism is inadequate to explain the world. You can't get the
immaterial from matter; there had to be an intelligent designer to
create the soul and give it its ordered structure.
I think it's critical to the struggle for the soul of America that we
get to the root of the chaos we see in culture: the ideas that people
now believe. They think, and I strongly disagree, that science has made
belief in God and values matters of private subjective faith.
What opportunities or opposition has your interest in intelligent
design presented?
I have had some publishers reject a book manuscript without even looking
at it. They opened it, they looked at it and said, "We will not publish
any book that even questions the theory of evolution." And these were
world-class publishers.
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