Ep. #241 – Should Catholics be proponents of Intelligent Design? w/ Dr. Jay Richards

Summary

What is intelligent design (ID)? Should Catholics promote it? Does it fall into simplistic God-of-the-gaps thinking or is it creationism in disguise? What should we think about the fact that the three most recent popes have endorsed evolution? Dr. Jay Richards joins us to discuss these topics.

Guest Bio

Jay W. Richards is director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family and the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow in Religious Liberty and Civil Society at the Heritage Foundation. He formerly served as a research assistant professor at the Catholic University of America, and he holds a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Richards also is a senior fellow at Discovery Institute and executive editor of The Stream.

He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including The Privileged Planet, God and Evolution, The Human Advantage, and the New York Times bestsellers Infiltrated and Indivisible. He was the creator and executive producer of several documentaries and has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs, including shows on CNN, Fox News, CBS, MSNBC, and EWTN.

Resources

God’s Grandeur: The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design edited by Ann Gauger

Dr. Jay Richards’s webpage at The Heritage Foundation

Guest Twitter handle: @DrJayRichards

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