*Can an omniscient God create a world governed by genuine chance?*
Alex Rosenberg argues that natural selection ultimately depends on objective chance and that this creates a conceptual problem for attempts to reconcile Darwinism with Christian theism.
0:00 Why Rosenberg Rejects Accommodationism
3:23 Darwinism Depends on Objective Chance
5:18 Why Omniscience Creates a Problem
7:50 Entropy, Chance, and the Limits of Reconciliation
10:12 The Problem for Reductionism and Theism
*Alexander Rosenberg* is an American philosopher and novelist. He is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, well known for contributions to philosophy of biology and philosophy of economics. Rosenberg describes himself as a “naturalist”.
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