It’s all because the form we have is one created by God to give to His Son, Jesus.

Ann Gauger

WHO IS ANN GAUGER?

Dr. Ann Gauger is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute. She received her Bachelor’s degree from MIT, her PhD from the University of Washington, and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Her scientific work has been published in numerous books and journals. She recently edited and co-authored God’s Grandeur: The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design. Her life centers on communicating the reality of God in any way she can. Email her at agauger@discovery.org. Her writing can be found at https://evolutionnews.org/author/agauger/ or https://anngauger.substack.com.

Intelligent Design: The Evidence of God

In this episode, Ann Gauger talks about:
i. What is intelligent design?
ii. What is the scientific evidence of the existence of God?
iii. How is the human person distinct?
iv. How do we understand the creation story?
v. How did this shape your own conversion?

The Distinctness of the Human Person

It was the week before Thanksgiving that I reached out to Ann. I read about her interesting take on the creation story. The month before, I had been reading a lot about the end times and am fascinated by the universe, its origins and the Biblical beginnings. I have also been re-reading the Old Testament and so was quite intrigued. During the weekend, I reached out to Ann and she was quick to respond and we recorded this episode.

What really impressed me is Ann’s approach to God. This is probably a similar approach to any person who is trying to understand God intellectually. In the end, Ann’s advice is to have faith and if you don’t have it, to ask God for it.

She explains how we cannot have come from randomness or coincidence. Through her studies she highlights the distinctness of the human person. Our capacities, including that of language, freewill, ability to understand the consequence of our actions and knowing the difference between right and wrong distinguish us from animals.

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