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On this episode of ID the Future, <\/strong>Jay Richards speaks with James Barham, who\u2019s just edited a new edition of Scottish Enlightenment philosopher Thomas Reid (1710-1796), Lectures on Natural Theolog<\/em><\/a>y.<\/a> <\/em>One of the most readable of all philosophers, Reid is well known for his \u201ccommon-sense philosophy.\u201d Were he living today, says Barham, he would have certainly been part of the intelligent design movement. Though it\u2019s commonly thought that David Hume refuted Reid\u2019s design arguments, Reid actually produced these lectures after Hume\u2019s death, tracing his design argument back to Plato and Cicero, and did not find Hume\u2019s key anti-design arguments at all persuasive, much less daunting or difficult to rebut. Barham also provides some interesting historical bits about how these lectures came to be written down, and some of the advantages this new resource on Thomas Reid offers over earlier Reid scholarship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this episode of ID the Future, Jay Richards speaks with James Barham, who\u2019s just edited a new edition of Scottish Enlightenment philosopher Thomas Reid (1710-1796), Lectures on Natural Theology.","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","sync_status":"synced","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/episodes.castos.com\/id\/IDTF-1361-James-Barham-Thomas-Reid-Natural-Theology.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"274614","podmotor_episode_id":"249670","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:21:09","filesize":"12.1 mb","filesize_raw":"12685739","date_recorded":"2020-09-28","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"1361","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"full","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2365,269,3332,3333,410,3334,3335,2675,1841,1225,3336,1356,3337,1382,3338,3339,2003],"series":[7227],"speaker":[],"class_list":["post-38640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-__edited","tag-charles-darwin","tag-cicero","tag-common-sense-philosophy","tag-darwinism","tag-david-hume","tag-francis-hutcheson","tag-natural-theology","tag-plato","tag-problem-of-evil","tag-scottish-enlightenment","tag-self-organization","tag-self-organization-principle","tag-skepticism","tag-theodicy","tag-thomas-reid","tag-william-paley","series-intelligent-design-the-future"],"acf":[],"author_names":["Editor"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/09\/different-species-of-birds-in-the-wild-stockpack-adobe-stock.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/idthefuture-cover.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-download\/38640\/1361.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/38640\/1361.mp3","audio_player":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/38640\/1361.mp3<\/a><\/audio>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/feed\/podcast\/intelligent-design-the-future","embedCode":"

New Book on Thomas Reid\u2019s Common Sense Design Philosophy<\/a><\/blockquote>