The Best Thing The NY TIMES Has Done Recently Is Publishing The Gary Gutting Interviews– Here’s One You Can’t Miss!

The best thing the NY TIMES has done recently is publishing the Gary Gutting interviews. Here’s one you can’t miss…

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Does Evolution Explain Religious Beliefs?

This is the eighth in a series of interviews about religion that I am conducting for The Stone. The interviewee for this installment is Michael Ruse, a professor of philosophy at Florida State University and the author of the forthcoming book “Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know.”

Gary Gutting: What do you think of the claim that scientific accounts provide all the explanations needed to understand the existence and nature of the world, so that there’s no need to posit God as the ultimate explanation?

I don’t think science can explain everything. As far as I am concerned, if you want God to have a crack at the job, go right ahead!

Michael Ruse: Let me start at a more general level by saying that I don’t think science as such can explain everything. Therefore, assuming that the existence and nature of the world can be fully understood (I’m not sure it can!), this is going to require something more than science. As far as I am concerned, if you want God to have a crack at the job, go right ahead!…

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Gary Gutting is an American philosopher and holder of endowed chair in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is an editor of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

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