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08May 2023 by Post

Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer

abortion, Artificial Intelligence, babies, bioethics, ChatGPT, chimpanzees, computer, Culture & Ethics, dementia, human life, humans, infanticide, infants, Medicine, moral collapse, persons, Peter Singer, philosophy, pregnancy, Princeton University, self-awareness, sentience, sentient beings, unborn baby, unconsciousness, Yahoo News

Singer first claims that should an AI ever become “sentient,” turning it off would be akin to killing a being with the highest moral value. Source

24Apr 2023 by Post

Understanding Design Arguments: An Introduction for Catholics

Aristotle, atomists, Benjamin Wiker, biology, Church Fathers, Democritus, Douglas Axe, Epicurus, Evolution, Faith & Science, God's Grandeur, Gregory of Nazianzen, Intelligent Design, James Sinclair, Jonathan Witt, Leucippus, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, New Atheists, philosophy, physics, Plato, Robin Collins, Roman Catholics, Scopes Monkey Trial, scripture, Socrates, Stephen Meyer, stereotypes, Vatican I, william lane craig, Xenophon, zero-sum game

What ID denies is that every feature of nature is the product of natural forces all the way down. This commitment is necessarily shared by Catholics. Source

09Apr 2023 by Post

Engineering Principles Explain Biological Systems Better than Evolutionary Theory

antiquity, Apostle Paul, Aristotle, atomism, biology, Charles Darwin, Copernican Revolution, Engineering, Evolution, Francisco Ayala, genetics, Hippocrates, Intelligent Design, Lucretius, materialism, Modern Synthesis, natural processes, Neo-Darwinism, philosophy, Plato, population genetics, Romans, Science and Faith in Dialogue, teleology

Hippocrates proposed in the late 5th or early 4th century BC a model for heredity and adaptation that Charles Darwin described as nearly identical to his own. Source

26Mar 2023 by Post

Aeschliman on Three Great Authors Critiquing Scientism

Andrew McDiarmid, Blaise Pascal, C.S. Lewis, Culture, Faith & Science, ID The Future, Jonathan Swift, literature, Michael D. Aeschliman, philosophy, Podcast, Reductionism, scientism, Stanley L. Jaki, The Restoration of Man, theology

These include the philosopher Blaise Pascal, who showed that scientific knowledge on its own could never be sufficient for being fully human. Source

06Mar 2023 by Post

Sean Carroll: “How Could an Immaterial Mind Affect the Body?”

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Aristotle noted that when we think carefully about natural causes we see that there are four distinct ways that causes can lead to effects in nature. Source

24Feb 2023 by Post

Conference to Explore Cosmic Mind and Divine Action

Biola University, Bradley Center, Center for Science & Culture, Charles Taliaferro, cosmic history, Discovery Institute, faith, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, J.P. Moreland, Joshua Farris, Michael Egnor, philosophy, soul, Stephen Meyer, Stony Brook University, theology

In the first plenary, Stephen Meyer will argue for the existence of an intelligent and transcendent God who has also acted in the course of cosmic history. Source

15Jan 2023 by Post

Martin Luther King on Intelligent Design

Arthur Balfour, Culture, electrons, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, intelligent purpose, James Jeans, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Jr. Day, materialism, necessity, philosophy, protons, science, Strength to Love, The Man Who Was a Fool

The era of great men and great women, with majestic and original visions, seems to be in the past. I struggle to think of a giant alive today. Can you? Source

29Dec 2022 by Post

#4 Story of 2022: Science Journal Reaffirms Universe Had a Beginning

Anna Ijjas, beginning, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, Charlotte Hsu, cosmology, Ethan Siegel, Faith & Science, God Hypothesis, Intelligent Design, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Nina Stein, Null Energy Condition, Paul Steinhardt, philosophy, Phys.org, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roger Penrose, spacetime, Stephen Meyer, theism, University of Buffalo, Will Kinney

If the universe and everything in it are the result of a mind, then we are not unintended accidents of nature. Source

13Dec 2022 by Post

Keating, Krauss, Tour: Three Jewish Scientists with Remarkably Different Perspectives

atheists, Brian Keating, Catholicism, Christianity, cosmologists, Culture, debate, Design Inference, faith, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Into the Impossible, James Tour, Judaism, Lawrence Krauss, natural philosophers, New Atheists, philosophy, proselytizing, Rice University, Stephen Meyer, Toronto, UC San Diego

Here is a fascinating and very different pair of scientific, religious, and philosophical conversations, both with UC San Diego physicist Brian Keating. 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