Friday, April 30, 2010

Podcast: The Watch and the Watchmaker: Philosophy and Intelligent Design

Check out this excellent discussion with ‘a philosopher who argues intelligent designthat though the Intelligent Design camp is wrong, the philosophical Darwinians are not always right.’

It's an old question: could there be a watch without a watchmaker? In other words, could there be a universe without a god who made it? These days, the proponents of what is known as Intelligent Design argue that there must have been a designer and that the theory of natural selection cannot tell us how we and other animals got to be here. This week we meet a philosopher who argues that though the Intelligent Design camp is wrong, the philosophical Darwinians are not always right. (Program website)