Felipe Aizpún gives a lecture at the University on "The discussion of the design argument in our understanding of Nature and God".
The expert participated in the October seminar of the group 'Science, Reason and Faith' (CRYF).
The expert Felipe Aizpún gave the October seminar of the group 'Science, Reason and Faith' (CRYF) focused on "The discussion of the argument of design in our understanding of Nature and God". During it, Aizpún presented the intelligent design as a variant of the traditional argument from finality in its scientific version. "This philosophical thinking leads us to infer the existence of an intelligent cause from the order we observe in nature," he explained.
In his speech he stressed that since the beginnings of philosophical thought two contradictory worldviews have been offered to explain the ultimate causes of reality and the meaning of our existence: "On the one hand, the materialistic vision that proposes to us that all reality is reduced to subject, to energy and to the physical laws that describe the possible relationships between material entities; and, on the other hand, the position of theistic philosophers who consider that many features present in nature, especially the order exhibited in living beings, point towards an intelligent cause that transcends the pure natural order."
Felipe Aizpún is graduate in Law from the University of Navarra (1980). He holds a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the I.E.S.E. of Barcelona (1981-1983). For 35 years he has worked in the field of business management , mainly in General Administration. Initially he was interested in issues of political Philosophy and economic theory. Later, he became interested in moral Philosophy as a foundation for the above and, from there, he focused on the study of the concept of human nature. It is at this point that his interest in discussion on origins, on evolutionism and design Intelligent as a movement arose. He has published in his blog about 200 short articles (posts), some of which were published in the book Charles Darwin vs. design Intelligent. He is also the author of Evolutionism and Rational knowledge (1910) and The Fifth Way and the Intelligent design (2014). These books contain his impressions and comments on the current state of evolutionary discussion and its scientific as well as philosophical implications.