The Viability of Intelligent Design 1/3

William Lane Craig presents his case for the viability of intelligent design at Indiana University. His opponent was the eminent evolutionary biologist Francisco J. Ayala. This was the first time William Lane Craig had ever publicly debated the subject.

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[Roper122]

Oh great!

Thanks for posting this...

Craig's an I.D. fan as well.

It just keeps getting better.

[Christianjr4]

@Roper122

An "I.D. fan"? He stated in this presentation that he doesn't know of I.D. is warranted or not. That's not exactly being a fan of the idea. You're welcome concerning the upload.

[hughc023]

How can anyone call ID a theory, it is a pathetic hypothesis at it's best . . .

[Aydosh1991]

Part 1. Typical creationist nonsense. They have nothing of value to say to support ID so all they do is attack evolutionary theory.

No matter how many times they say "ID Theory" it is not a theory, it has no predictive power so what use is it?

[mojorhythm]

@horsie111 I watched the whole thing ages ago. Craig is a moron. If you want observed, documented, countless examples of evolution in action (mutation, selection, drift etc), all you have to do is go to Nature, New Scientist or any other science journal/magazine and use their search bar. Sure, the examples are small in extent, but that is the point of extrapolation. Like I said, Craig has absolutely no right whatsoever to attack Darwinian evolution on the basis of the extrapolation alone.

[horsie111]

@mojorhythm Don't stop watching at the first vid ! He explains in the rest of it his claim for Darwinian mechanisms being inadequate to explain all life forms from a common ancestor. He basically uses Ayala's argument against him, by the example of mutating bacteria producing so *little* adaptation across untold mutations and generations.

[Roper122]

@Christianjr4 ... Yes.. obviously he enjoys spending his time debating in support of concepts that he doubts the viability of???

But you do have some good uploads...drcraigvideos has way more though.

it makes life easier for me.

[mojorhythm]

Dr Craig seems to be discombobulated by how scientists engage in an enormous extrapolation of Darwinian mechanisms to explain life's history.

Craig is using a $%&*#@$ DOUBLE STANDARD (typical evangelist).

The Big Bang theory, which Craig has a philosophical hard-on for, conducts F&*#$NG ENORMOUS REVERSE TIME EXTRAPOLATIONS FROM PRESENT DATA.

Plate Tectonics, which Craig clearly has no problems with, conducts F%$%&NG ENORMOUS EXTRAPOLATIONS FROM PRESENT DATA.

Spurious argument methinks!

[lukeism2]

i'd like to see a practical application for intelligent design... it's creationism in a cheap tuxedo

[lukeism2]

i'd love to see william lane craigs ideas peer reviewed. goddidit.