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01Feb 2023 by Post

By Design: Storytelling Reveals Human Exceptionalism

addiction, Andrew McDiarmid, animals, Bible, Big Tech, Braveheart, characters, consciousness, Culture & Ethics, Dennis Prager, devices, Dogs, Eric Metaxas, Google, human exceptionalism, humans, Intelligent Design, Internet, Michael Medved, nature, New York Post, pets, plot, Sabbath, science, storytelling, Technology

That humans enjoy being made to wait seems to have been deliberately built into us. It’s unique in nature, an intelligent design. Source

21Nov 2022 by Post

Intelligent Design and the Regularity of Natural Law

airplane crashes, automobile accidents, cable car, chemical plant explosions, Christopher Columbus, defeat, disappointment, drownings, failure, Faith & Science, floods, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, human body, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, laws of nature, Michelangelo, mountains, nature, Panama Canal, physics, risk, tragedy, William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The laws of nature work together to create a magnificent world of mountains and rivers, jungles and waterfalls, oceans and forests, animals and plants. Source

09Nov 2022 by Post

William Wordsworth’s Posthumous Challenge to Darwinian Nihilism

"survival of the fittest", Alvar Ellegard, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Christianity, Culture & Ethics, Ebenezer Scrooge, evolutionary processes, Faith & Science, Higher Criticism, logic, nature, nihilism, Origin of Species, philosophy, poetry, Robert Ryan, Samuel Butler, spirituality, Thomas Malthus, Victorian England, William Wordsworth

Paradoxically, Wordsworth's theology may have formed a more effective counterforce to Darwin's ideas than Biblical orthodoxy itself. Source

05Nov 2022 by Post

Wordsworth: The Sage of the Lakes

Alexander Pope, bestseller, Britons, Charles Darwin, Culture & Ethics, Dove Cottage, F. W. H. Myers, Faith & Science, George Eliot, Guide to the Lakes, Harriet Martineau, John Stuart Mill, Lake District, nature, poets, Queen Victoria, railway, Stopford Brooke, tourists, transcendence, Victorian England, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)

Wordsworth gave rise not just to a minority group of high-culture admirers but to a popular revolution in ordinary people’s thinking. Source

31Aug 2022 by Post

Behe Debates the Limits of Darwinian Evolution

Benedictine College, Catholicism, common descent, debates, Evolution, genus, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Macroevolution, Michael Behe, Michael Ramage, nature, Pat Flynn, Philosophy for the People, Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic philosophy

Any evolution beyond the level of genus — for instance, the separate families containing cats and dogs — cannot be achieved through mindless Darwinian mechanisms. Source

27Aug 2022 by Post

Paul Nelson: Listen to Nature for Her Answers

Andrew McDiarmid, biology, Caltech, experimentation, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, naturalism, Naturalistic Parabola, nature, Paul Nelson, Podcast, science, scientists, testing

If we listen and test, nature can keep revealing herself in surprising ways, which is what makes science so fun. Source

31Jul 2022 by Post

John West: Darwin’s Corrosive Idea

Culture, Culture & Ethics, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwin Day in America, Darwinism, Evolution, human dignity, ID The Future, John West, materialism, nature, Podcast, political science, scientific racism, Western culture

Darwin’s materialistic theory of evolution drained meaning from nature, undercut the idea of inherent human dignity, and fueled the rise of scientific racism. Source

20May 2022 by Post