Abstract
Are there only two positions on origins: either “evolution” or “creation”?
This lecture is an introduction to professional terminology,
science-religion dialogue, and various views on origins (young
earth creation, progressive creation, evolutionary creation,
deistic evolution, and atheistic evolution). Lecturer also shares
his personal voyage in this debate.
Biography
Denis O. Lamoureux is an Associate Professor of Science and Religion
at St. Joseph's College in the University of Alberta. He has
debated leading anti-evolutionists, including Phillip Johnson,
Michael Behe, and Jonathan Wells. With Johnson, he co-authored
Darwinism Defeated? The Johnson-Lamoureux Debate on Biological
Origins (1999). Lamoureux is also the author of Evolutionary
Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution (2008) and I
Love Jesus & I Accept Evolution (2009). He holds three earned
doctoral degrees—dentistry,
theology, and biology.