May 24, 2012 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College

Prof. Elliott Sober

Can conclusions about God – for example, that he does not exist, or that he lacks this or that property if he does exist — be deduced from well-established scientific theories?  For example, do established results in biology concerning mutation show that God never guides mutations?   I answer this question by explaining what biologists mean (or should mean) when they say that mutations are unguided.  I make use of the fact that evolutionary theory is a probabilistic theory; its truth does not entail that it is causally complete.

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Naturalism and Evolutionary Theory

Prof. Elliott Sober

Naturalism and Evolutionary Theory

May 24, 2012