The Intelligent Investor

In the traditional method of critical thinking, the goal is to find the right answer by discovering and ferreting out the wrong answers. Thus, in a multiple choice quiz, a student could determine that the correct answer was C by knowing that A, B, and D were incorrect. This student knows that, as Sherlock Holmes said, “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” To me, this quote sums up the premise of what Elbow refers to as the doubting…

Theistic evolution is one of three main origin of life world views. The other two are atheistic evolution (also commonly known as Darwinian evolution and naturalistic evolution) and special creation. Atheistic evolution states that there is no God and that life can and did materialize physically from already existing, non-living beginning accumulations of matter under the power of natural laws (like gravity, etc), although the beginning of those natural laws is not justified. Special creation…

William Paley (1743 – 1805) was a professor of philosophy at Cambridge University who is most notably known for his watchmaker argument that seeks to prove a theistic view of god. By relating a watch to the natural world he uses argument by analogy in order to prove the design argument, or the teleological argument, which concludes that god’s existence can be proven by the order, complexity, and apparent purposefulness, within the natural world. [Insert thesis] Paley’s watchmaker…

Evolution and religion were put to the ultimate test during this trial as the court was subject to realizing potential errors in the Holy Bible. In contemporary times, creationism and evolution have been combined to form a hybrid theory of life: intelligent design. Creationism, evolution,…

increasingly doubting Darwin’s ideas and turning toward Intelligent Design. The strong point of Natural Selection was that it contain both religious evidence as well as Scientific evidence thus it was able to satisfy both side of society; but because it contain religion as one of its base, in the current age the usage of religion cannot be used to provide solid evidence to satisfy the thirsts of humanity. Thus, the popularity of Intelligent Design continues to rise, since this theory partakes in…

Throughout this course, we were exposed to many ideas about organism classification due to evolutionary linkages, survival of the fittest and random out comes. Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory often creates conflicts with religious teachings in particular, Christianity; many Christians disagree with Darwin’s theory that “man is not the most supreme creature on earth, but humans just evolved from a single cell over long periods of time.” Faith is intangible; it could simply be a belief.…

In our modern day, science seems to (or sometimes attempts to) trump the Christian Bible in every way for some. It’s as if modern science can’t see similarities or agreements between the two, so one must choose one or the other. In John H. Walton’s “Human Origins and The Bible,” he explains that the Bible does not contain any kind of “scientific revelation” and whatever science is within the Bible would have been general knowledge for everyone. But in our present day of the 21st century, many…

point of view is entirely different. Paley believes that the universe has been produced by a creator that is why it functions the way it does today. Behe believes something very similar to Paley; He believes that the universe was created by an “Intelligent Designer”. Descartes on the other hand, has a different point of view, he refers to it as a mechanical universe. Paley and Behe’s theories are based on a creator also knows as God when Descartes as well defends God as a creator but sees the…

In this part of the chapter, the author examines the principle of law and constancy. The author begins by noting how the creationist view, even espoused in some ways by such pivotal thinkers as Issac Newton to think of there being some definite order, or framework of rules we know as laws of nature, established by what could (in their minds) only be a god (albeit in a time where science was in its infancy and so other ways of contemplating order in the universe hadn’t been developed besides the…

According to Lucretius in On The Nature Of Things, the power of nature and science relied on arbitrary mixtures and “indestructible particles” to create life and earthly systems in an limitless world. On the contrary, Darwin explores a variety of topics that portray life as being dependent on gradual changes, variations, competition, deity beliefs, morals, and natural selection. He asserts, “Natural selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action” (Darwin page 108).…