Extra-Long (>70 mins)
Philosophy
Anglican
Keith Ward vs. Michael Ruse - Mind, Consciousness & God
Theologian
Keith Ward
Duration
80.13
Uploaded to YouTube
11 October 2013
Added to Database
4 April 2026
YouTube description
A very entertaining and thoughtful debate between Keith Ward and Michael Ruse.
Keith Ward is a Christian philosopher, theologian, pastor and scholar. He has an MA and DD degrees from both Cambridge and Oxford, and he served as Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford from 1991 to 2004.
Michael Ruse is a philosopher of science who specializes in the philosophy of biology and is well known for his work on the relationship between science and religion, the creation-evolution controversy and the demarcation problem in science. Ruse has a Ph.D. from the University of Bristol (1970).