Lectures by Ken Miller
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:39 pm
Ken Miller is a well known cell biologist and, more recently, author who advocates evolution while maintaining that it's not incompatible with the Christian faith (Miller himself is a Roman Catholic). I found these two lectures to be both fascinating and thought provoking, and I'm wondering what everyone here thinks of them.
This one is 23 minutes long and is only about irreducible complexity, the points he raises make me inclined to believe his contention that it's not a useful concept. (note: you'll need real player to watch these)
http://www.meta-library.net/perspevo/preskm-frame.html
This one is about an hour and ten minutes long, and is a more general overview of evolution in a addition to a Christian theological perspective on evolution and why it's not neccesarily in conflict with biblical precepts. Again, I find his debunking of flood geology and evidence for evolution to be rather compelling.
http://www.meta-library.net/perspevo/preskm2-frame.html
What are you thoughts on these lectures? Personally they have lead me to seriously question standard knocks on evolution, and I think the question for me has become how to reconcile evolution with Christianity, rather than determining why evolution isn't true.
This one is 23 minutes long and is only about irreducible complexity, the points he raises make me inclined to believe his contention that it's not a useful concept. (note: you'll need real player to watch these)
http://www.meta-library.net/perspevo/preskm-frame.html
This one is about an hour and ten minutes long, and is a more general overview of evolution in a addition to a Christian theological perspective on evolution and why it's not neccesarily in conflict with biblical precepts. Again, I find his debunking of flood geology and evidence for evolution to be rather compelling.
http://www.meta-library.net/perspevo/preskm2-frame.html
What are you thoughts on these lectures? Personally they have lead me to seriously question standard knocks on evolution, and I think the question for me has become how to reconcile evolution with Christianity, rather than determining why evolution isn't true.