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April 1, 2000
April 17 Colloquium at NC Wesleyan Rocky Mount, NC—Dr. Nicola Creegan will make a Fourth Monday Colloquium Presentation at North Carolina Wesleyan College, April 17, at 11:30 a.m., in the Powers Recital Hall in the Dunn Center. Her topic is: "History of the Design Argument." The event is free and open to the public. Paley’s version of the design argument was one of the most important proofs for the existence of God in the nineteenth century, and Paley was a large part of the University curriculum. This argument was overturned by Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, as published in "The Origin of the Species." After this, religion resorted very much to arguments from experience, or to obscurantist denials of evolution. In the last ten to fifteen years there has been a revival of interest in the new forms of the design argument, and a very heated debate has ensued, in an attempt to answer questions such as these: What difference would it make if evolution were guided by an intelligent Deity? Would such an evolution be the one we observe? Are we really the result of a random force of Natural Selection? Creegan is an assistant professor of religion at NC Wesleyan. North Carolina Wesleyan is an independent, four-year liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The College offers bachelor’s degrees in 22 majors to traditional-aged students on the Rocky Mount campus. NC Wesleyan also offers an adult degree program geared to help working adults finish their bachelor’s degrees in several disciplines, with classes in Rocky Mount, and at additional teaching sites in Raleigh, Goldsboro, and Durham. The College is planning to introduce an accelerated master of business administration program in the fall 2000 to the adult students in the Triangle area. # # # |
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