If You Have No Authority To Legislate

The Problem Of Good As It Faces The Atheist Is This: Nature, Which Is The Nuts-and-bolts Reality For The Atheist, Has No Values And Thus Can Offer No Grounding For Good And Evil. Values On The Atheist View Are Subjective And Contingent.

Give Us Detailed, Testable, Mechanistic Accounts For The Origin Of Life, The Origin Of The Genetic Code, The Origin Of Ubiquitous Bio Macromolecules And Assemblages Like The Ribosome, And The Origin Of Molecular Machines Like The Bacterial Flagellum, And Intelligent Design Will Die A Quick And Painless Death.

The Fundamental Claim Of Intelligent Design Is Straightforward And Easily Intelligible: Namely, There Are Natural Systems That Cannot Be Adequately Explained In Terms Of Undirected Natural Forces And That Exhibit Features Which In Any Other Circumstance We Would Attribute To Intelligence.

As Far As Design Theorists Are Concerned, Theistic Evolution Is American Evangelicalism's Ill-conceived Accommodation To Darwinism .

Government Has A Legitimate Sphere Of Operation. The Problem Arises When That Sphere Continually Expands, Encompassing Areas Where Government Lacks Legitimacy.