biology,
Burke Museum,
Center for Science & Culture,
Chemistry,
cosmology,
Dallas,
Daniel Reeves,
Early Church,
East Coast,
Evolution,
Faith & Science,
foresight,
Intelligent Design,
John West,
Marcos Eberlin,
Melissa Cain Travis,
orphan genes,
Paul Nelson,
Philadelphia,
Stephen Meyer,
Westminster Conference on Science and Faith
Here in Seattle, the University of Washington recently opened a spectacular and expensive ($106 million) new building for its natural history museum, the Burke Museum. A friend visited there yesterday — I have not yet had a chance to do so — and sent along photos. We were both struck by how the exhibits lay it on thick with regard to evolution as an unguided process. Large signs seem aggressive in advertising the curators’ position: “EVOLUTION ISN’T PLANNED,” declares one display. Another insists that life is “SHAPED BY NATURE,” and, by implication, by nothing else. The culture invests great energy and wealth to bombard us with messages like these. That’s the case even as, at deeper and deeper levels, science reveals evidence of a plan, foresight, a deliberately shaping force working…