This page is the index to the Analysis of Evolutionary Arguments seminar that began on October 4, 2014 and continued for 24 weeks. The following posts provided supplemental material for the lectures, although these posts themselves provide quite self-contained information on the topics.

This seminar was presented in a church setting, so it is “Christian-centric.” However, regardless of your religious beliefs, or lack thereof, you will find the material to be not “preachy,” and there are balanced indictments of the sloppy thinking on the part of both Christians and evolutionary scientists.

Introduction & Readings List

Week 01 — Arguments

Week 02 — Basic Logic

Week 03 — The Ethics of Belief

Week 04 — Types of Evidence

Week 05 — Introduction to Philosophy of Science

Week 06 — Philosophy of Science Continued

Week 07 — Introduction to Evolutionary Theory

Week 08 — Important Terms

Week 09 — Modern Evolutionary Theory (neo-Darwinism)

Week 10 — Natural Selection

Week 11 — Speciation Events

Week 12 — Speciation Events Continued

Week 13 — Dawkins’ Orthodoxy vs. Gould and Eldredge

Week 14 — Punctuated Equilibrium

Week 15 — Scientism/Naturalism in Crisis

Week 16 — Introduction to Philosophy of Mind 1

Week 17 — Philosophy of Mind Continued 2

Week 18 — Philosophy of Mind Continued 3

Week 19 — Philosophy of Mind Continued 4

Week 20 — Introduction to Information Theory

Week 21 — Information Theory Continued

Week 22 — Abstract Objects

Week 23 — Conclusions