Intelligent Design: A Beginner’s Guide with Casey Luskin
How would you explain intelligent design to someone who has just recently begun looking into it? Perhaps you are new to it yourself. Source
Does Cosmic Fine-Tuning Suggest Theism or Deism?
astrobiologists, Casey Luskin, clock-maker, Cosmic Habitable Age, deism, designer, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, fingernails, galactic habitable zone, Guillermo Gonzalez, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, Podcast, Science and Faith in Dialogue, Stephen Dedalus, The Privileged Planet, theism
Casey Luskin continues his conversation with astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez about the many ways Earth’s place in the cosmos is finely tuned for life. Source
The Growing Evidence of Earth’s Privilege
Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Copernican principle, earth, extra-solar planets, fine-tuning, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, local fine-tuning, Marcos Eberlin, Physics, Earth & Space, planets, Science and Faith in Dialogue, Stephen Meyer, The Privileged Planet, theism, universal fine-tuning
Astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez begins a two-part conversation with host Casey Luskin. Source
When Building Our Case for Intelligent Design, How Should We Think About Prior Probability?
Atheism, background information, Bayes factor, Bayesian analysis, Bayes’s theorem, biological design, biology, environmental fitness, Evolution, Evolution News, fine-tuning, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, physical constants, plausibility, Podcast, prior probability, probabilities, revealed religion, theism
Bayes’s theorem is a tool for modeling our evaluation of evidences to appropriately apportion the confidence in our conclusions to the strength of the evidence. Source
The Multiverse Has a Measure Problem
Aaron Zimmer, atoms, Bible, Boltzmann brain, Donald Trump, Dragons, Elie Feder, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, life, measure problem, molecules, naïve multiverse, observers, physical constants, physical laws, physics, Physics to God, Physics, Earth & Space, planets, quantum fluctuations, rivers, Roger Penrose, stars, Taylor Swift, universe
In terms of science, the central problem with the naïve multiverse is that it could explain any observation, so it really explains nothing. Source
Rejecting the Multiverse: Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
Aaron Zimmer, Brian Miller, cosmology, Elie Feder, fine-tuning, ID The Future, initial conditions, intelligent cause, Intelligent Design, mathematicians, multiverse, physicists, Physics to God, Physics, Earth & Space, Podcast, science fiction, universe
It can be tempting to dismiss the idea of the multiverse as unobservable fantasy. Source
3 More BIG Questions: Fine-tuning? Feeling God? Inerrancy?
Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Christmas, Dr. Frank Turek, Feelings, fine-tuning, God, gospels, Heaven, Hell, morality, philosophy, Podcast, Q&A, religion, Skeptic, theology
Does the scientific evidence fall short of proving the fine-tuning of the universe? Should Christians regularly “feel God’s presence”? And since there are minor differences in the Gospels, does that disprove biblical inerrancy? In this midweek podcast episode, Frank tackles three more BIG questions from our listening audience along with questions like: What are the 3 levels of fine-tuning and does it only occur here on planet Earth? Can the fine-tuning argument alone actually prove Christianity is true? And can all truth be explained through science? Where exactly are Heaven and Hell? What’s the true meaning of Christmas? Is loving God an emotion, a feeling, or a decision? If God chooses not to reveal Himself to us is that proof that He doesn’t exist? What’s a great question to ask…
Why the Multiverse Theory Can’t Explain Away Cosmic Fine-Tuning
bias, Big Bang, casino, Durham University, fine-tuning, Gambler’s Fallacy, goal-directedness, Goldilocks, historians, Intelligent Design, multiverse, Neuroscience & Mind, particles, Philip Goff, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, thought, universe
Many thoughtful people in science today would see the goal of science as explaining away both goal-directedness and thought. Source
Not with a Bang: How the New Atheism Fizzled
Antony Flew, Anxiety, atheists, biology, Christopher Hitchens, Culture & Ethics, Daniel Dennett, depression, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, Huffington Post, Professor Dave, religious believers, Richard Dawkins, Ross Andersen, Sam Harris, suicide, The Atlantic, There Is a God
It didn’t help that Hitchens and Dennett are deceased. But what’s significant is that they were not replaced. Source
Stephen Meyer and Ben Shapiro on the Origin of Life
Ben Shapiro, Darwin's Doubt, Evolution, fine-tuning, ID The Future, information, Intelligent Design, James Tour, methodological naturalism, multiverse, origin of life, Peter Robinson, Podcast, Rice University, RNA world, Stephen Meyer, The Ben Shapiro Sunday Special, The Daily Wire, Uncommon Knowledge
Dr. Meyer explains how the OOL field reached an impasse by the 1980s as chemists learned just how thorny the origin of life problem really was. Source