Being as Communion: The Metaphysics of Information

Angus Menuge, Aristotle, Ashgate, Being as Communion, blueprints, Brian Krouse, Claude Shannon, engineers, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Faith & Science, Holy Spirit, information, informational realism, language, logos, metaphysics, mind-body problem, musicians, My Personal History with Information (series), No Free Lunch, ontology, painters, philosophy, Plato, Robert J. Marks II, sculptors, Templeton Foundation, The Mathematical Theory of Communication, Trinitarian God
"Painters create information by applying dabs of paint to canvas, sculptors by chiseling away at stone, musicians by writing notes on lined sheets of paper." Source
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Meyer, Dillahunty, Nagel: They Don’t Make Atheists the Way They Used To

analogy, Atheism, Bible, biological information, Closer to Truth, Complexity, DNA, dogmatism, Douglas Adams, Faith & Science, functional specificity, genetics, God of the philosophers, improbability, information, Intelligent Design, Matt Dillahunty, Mind and Cosmos, neo-Darwinian theory, New York University, Piers Morgan, Richard Dawkins, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Stephen Meyer, The Telegraph, theists, Thomas Nagel, universe
Dillahunty contended that the biological information coded in DNA isn’t really information at all but only analogous to it. Try to follow this word salad. Source
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Information in Biology: A Mystery for Naturalism

A. E. Wilder-Smith, Apologetics, biological complexity, biology, Chinese Room, creationists, Faith & Science, function, genotype, information, information processing, Intelligent Design, John Searle, Marcel Schützenberger, Martin M. Kaplan, Mathematical Challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution, My Personal History with Information (series), naturalism, Paul S. Moorhead, phenotype, semantics, Stanislaw Ulam, The Creation of Life, University of Illinois at Chicago, William Dembski, Wistar Symposium, Young Earth Creationism
Biology was giving us computer programming and symbolic codes which, by mapping functional structures to functional structures, exhibited a tacit semantics.  Source
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The Marvel of a Seed — Applications for Intelligent Design

biotechnology, biotic populations, Center for Science and Culture, Christians, Conversations, Evolution, Faith & Science, farming, fruit, ID Education Day, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, John West, multicellular complexity, offspring, Pew Research Center, reproducibility, Science and Culture Today, seeds, seminars, Summer Seminars, synthetic biochemistry
Growth of the ID movement has occurred through “sowing the seeds” of evidential support for the theory. Source
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How a Christian Magazine and a Christian Scholar Boosted a Book with a Fabricated Quote

academic fabrication, ACLU, atheists, Brian Josephson, C. W. Howell, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Christian magazines, Christianity Today, Christians, Darwinian theory, Denis Noble, Designer Science, Discovery Institute, Dover School District, Edward Larson, Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, materialists, Michael Behe, misinformation, New York University Press, Oxford University, Pulitzer Prize, Ronald Numbers, Scopes trial, secular voices, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, Summer for the Gods, William Jennings Bryan
As you might have noticed, the critics of intelligent design I’m discussing here aren’t atheists or materialists. Source
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Moving Intelligent Design Forward: A Seminar to Remember

Aristotle, beauty, biochemistry, Brian Miller, C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, Christian colleges, Colorado, Daniel McCarthy, Daniel Reeves, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Education, entomology, Europe, Evolution, Faith & Science, information, Intelligent Design, knowledge, Medicine, meteorology, Michael Behe, Modern Age, science education, Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences, Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design, The Lord of the Rings
Graduates won’t be alone. A bonus for Seminar grads is the opportunity to be connected with a mentor who will help them navigate the hostile environment ahead. Source
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Science and Beauty: The Lens of Triperspectivalism

aesthetic criteria, Albert Einstein, Anthony O’Hear, Artemis II, Arthur Eddington, beauty, Brian Greene, coherence, controversy, disinterested, Earthset, empirical fit, existential, Faith & Science, fauna, fittingness, flora, fruitfulness, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, John Frame, Mare Orientale, mathematical beauty, Michael Keas, Milky Way, Moon, Nobel Prize, normative, oughtness, philosophers, pleasure, Science and Beauty (series), scientific theories, Serge Brunier, situational, solar eclipse, Steven Weinberg, subatomic particles, The Elegant Universe, The Evidential Power of Beauty, The Privileged Planet, theoretical virtues, Thomas Dubay, triperspectivalism
To the non-scientist, it may come as a surprise that scientists would appeal to aesthetic standards in evaluating the validity of scientific theories. Source
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God Would Not Create Things That Way? Nature Alone Could Not

Charles Darwin, Chicago, chimps, Christianity for Doubters, common design, consciousness, DNA, echolocation, elementary particles, Evolution, Faith & Science, Field Museum of Natural History, fossil skulls, Genesis, George Gaylord Simpson, history of life, humans, Intelligent Design, modern humans, nature, New York Times News Service, nuclear power plants, Origin of Species, paleontologists, paleontology, physics, primates, Smart Phones, supercomputers, Technology, Why Evolution Is Different
Why does God remain backstage, hidden from view, working behind the scenes while we act out our parts in the human drama? Source
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Found: A Robust Basis for Science-Faith Synthesis

Catholics, Creation or Evolution? A Catholic Dilemma, Darwinian evolution, Evolution, evolutionary paradigm, Faith & Science, Father Michael Chaberek, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, logic, modern science, origin of life, philosophy, Podcast, science-faith synthesis, scientific evidence, Steve Greene, Thomas Aquinas, universe
The many scientific shortcomings of the evolutionary account force us to confront some logical and philosophical challenges. Source
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Sweeping Europe, a Pagan Religion Has Daggers Out for This Technology

air conditioning, Associated Press, atonement, carbon emissions, China, Christianity, deaths, Europe, extreme heat, Faith & Science, forgiveness, global warning, guilt, heat wave, Love, monkeys, monotheism, pagan religions, Punishment, red warnings, religion, Sarah Salviander, secular religion, self-preservation, supernatural, Technology, The Story of Everything
A religion that sees humans as merely “an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet” would consider these unnecessary deaths hardly worth noticing. Source
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