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25May 2023 by Post

James Tour Focused on Science, Dave Farina on Character Assassination: So, Who Wins?

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Professor Dave’s attacks undercut his credibility as a spokesman for his own view. If he had the truth on his side, there’s no reason he would behave this way. Source

23May 2023 by Post

A War of Words? How to Tell Who Won the Tour-Farina Debate

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Over three subsequent posts, I’m going to elaborate on three reasons that we can see that Tour won, based upon a rhetorical analysis of the debate. Source

15May 2023 by Post

Intelligent Design Passes the Dawkins Test

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After it passed his challenge, will atheist evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins now embrace the theory of intelligent design? Source

18Apr 2023 by Post

Sworn in on a Copy of…a Carl Sagan Book?

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Of course no one "believes in Carl Sagan," but that is exactly the point — the oath has no teeth. Source

15Feb 2023 by Post

Molecular Infertility: New Long Story Short on RNA Replication and Life’s Origin

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You might think that such severe impediments to prebiotic RNA formation would be enough to discourage fanciful proposals of RNA replication. Source

29Jan 2023 by Post

Mama Bear Apologetics Takes on Richard Dawkins

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Dawkins invokes the beautiful order evident in the murmuration of bird flocks as evidence that complexity can evolve from simple algorithmic rules. Source

16Jan 2023 by Post

Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity

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It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited. Source

14Jan 2023 by Post

Wesley Smith Asks, Is Your Body “Engineered”?

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Or did it evolve through impersonal and random processes over countless millions of years of natural selection? Source

09Jan 2023 by Post

Cosmologist Frank Tipler on the Singularity Atheists Try To Evade

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The singularity in question isn’t the supposed future singularity imagined by transhumanists, but the singularity at the foundation of the Big Bang. Source

14Dec 2022 by Post

A Miraculous Existence

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Zeeya Merali asks a good question: If God desired to send us a message, how would He do it? Source