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dc.contributor.authorThorvaldsen, Steinar
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-02T13:38:15Z
dc.date.available2023-05-02T13:38:15Z
dc.date.issued2020-12-15
dc.description.abstractNatural Theology is an attempt to provide arguments for the existence of God based on reason and ordinary experience of nature. It became quite popular with both orthodox Christians and Deists between about 1650 and 1850, inspiring much of the scientific fieldwork done during that period. However, Darwin’s theory of evolution brought about a temporary decline of this Christian apologetic tradition. Intelligent Design is a relatively new scientific research program that investigates the effects of intelligent sources, and challenges basic parts of contemporary Darwinism. Fred Hoyle first issued the ideas of Intelligent Design in modern times when he discovered the unique energy level of the carbon atom in the 1950s. On Copernicus’s 500th birthday in 1973, Brandon Carter presented the discovery that the fundamental constants of physics are fine-tuned to precise values for life permittance. In the 1990s, Michael Behe and others presented arguments for Intelligent Design in molecular biology, and irreducibly complex biochemical machines in living cells. In this paper, we briefly present Intelligent Design and discuss its possible application within a revitalized version of Natural Theology. The paper is mainly written from a scientific perspective.en_US
dc.identifier.citationThorvaldsen. Intelligent design and natural theology. Theofilos. 2020;12(suppl 1):66-84en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1881921
dc.identifier.doi10.48032/theo/12/1/7
dc.identifier.issn1893-7969
dc.identifier.issn2703-7037
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/29103
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherNLA Høgskolenen_US
dc.publisherJohannelund School of Theologyen_US
dc.relation.journalTheofilos
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Filosofiske fag: 160en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Philosophy: 160en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Matematikk og naturvitenskap: 400en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Mathematics and natural scienses: 400en_US
dc.subjectBioinformatikk / Bioinformaticsen_US
dc.subjectBiologisk invasjon / Biological invasionsen_US
dc.subjectFysikk / Physicsen_US
dc.titleIntelligent design and natural theologyen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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