Stuart Burgess
Auteur de Hallmarks of Design: Evidence of design in the natural world
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Stuart Burgess has been a Head of Department and Senior Tutor at Bristol University in a department with over five hundred students. He also has experience as a pastor and is regularly invited to speak at Christian conferences around the world. He is married to Jocelyn and has five children.
Œuvres de Stuart Burgess
Absolute Monarchy and the Stuart Constitution 1 exemplaire
The Uniqueness of Man 1 exemplaire
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- Œuvres
- 13
- Membres
- 237
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- #95,614
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- 3.9
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- 1
- ISBN
- 14
Burgess is the latest author that I have read who makes the rather pointed observation that evolutionary explanations are seldom that. They "explain" nothing. They assume what they claim to prove. And, since evolution supposedly happened long ago, the mechanisms of "how" things evolved is a matter of speculation. Design, however, is something that can be discerned by what Burgess has called "hallmarks".
In this case, we have an author who explicitly declares his Christian faith. (He will not be welcomed in Seattle by the Discovery Institute because of this!) But, as a Christian statement, he has made careful connections to the implications of the design and what this fact means. In fact, I believe that his last chapter can and should be adapted as a sermon to incite people to consider changing their minds and putting their trust in the God who has shown His benevolence to His Creation.… (plus d'informations)