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01May 2024 by Post

Another Call for a “New Synthesis”

biology, Casey Luskin, cooperative effects, Darwinism, Denis Noble, dissidents, epigenetic inheritance, Evolution, Extended Synthesis, genetic change, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, Lamarckian evolution, New Synthesis, origin of life, panspermia, Peter Corning, physics, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, purposiveness, retroactive admission of ignorance, selective pressures, symbiosis, synergism hypothesis, synergistic selection, synergy, teleonomy, The Selfish Gene, unguided evolution, Wikipedia

I recently wrote a post critical of biologist Peter Corning’s “synergism hypothesis.” Afterwards Dr. Corning got in touch. Source

29Apr 2024 by Post

Do Fungi Have Free-Will?

agency, automaton, biology, Chemistry, Complexity, consciousness, decision-making, Evidence, Evolution, free will, fungal mind, genetics, human behavior, hyphae, imago Dei, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Internet, Judeo-Christian tradition, learning, Life Sciences, materialism, memory, Miami University, mind, mycelium, mycology, Neuroscience & Mind, Nicholas P. Money, Ohio, physics, randomness, science writers, scientists, sensitivity

Whenever a new hypothesis like this is published and calmly debated in scientific journals without arousing any furor, your first instinct may be to scoff. Source

20Apr 2024 by Post

How Earth is Designed for Human Technology

agriculture, Andrew McDiarmid, biology, Brian Miller, Chemistry, cooking, earth, Earth’s surface, Evidence, fire, food, foresight, Geology, gold, hunting, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, iron, Life Sciences, likelihood ratio, multi-cellular beings, physicists, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, plate tectonics, soil, technological advancement, Technology, universe, water cycle

Is all this a coincidence? We think that’s a stretch. One or two fortunate parameters might be called a fluke. Source

02Apr 2024 by Post

My Dinner with Steven and Louise Weinberg

Atheism, atheists, attorney, Austin, Baylor University, Christianity, Faith & Science, faith and science, Intelligent Design, Jesus, Law, law professor, Louise Weinberg, naturalism, Nobel Prize, Phillip E. Johnson, physicists, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, scripture, Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes, The Nature of Nature, theism, theists, University of Texas, Waco

Weinberg was holding court, going on about how much he knew about the origin of the universe and how atheism was the only intellectually viable option. Source

22Mar 2024 by Post

New Course on Science and Christianity Beginning Soon with Melissa Cain Travis

Christianity, cosmology, Education, Faith & Science, Galileo Affair, history, Melissa Cain Travis, natural philosophers, physics, science, scientific revolution, Scopes Monkey Trial, theologians, Warfare Thesis, Zoom

Special attention will be given to long-enduring myths and misconceptions that underpin the so-called “warfare thesis.” Source

17Mar 2024 by Post

Consciousness Observes Different Laws from Physics

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Keith Ward explains how we can know that the mind is not simply what the brain does. Source

04Mar 2024 by Post

Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design Are FREE but the Application DEADLINE Approaches

application, arts, biochemistry, bioethics, Brian Miller, C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society, careers, Casey Luskin, Colorado, computational biology, cosmology, deadline, developmental biology, Economics, Education, embryology, Glen Eyrie Castle, graduate students, Guillermo Gonzalez, history of science, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, John West, mathematics, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Egnor, molecular biology, paleontology, Philosophy of Science, physics, Pikes Peak, Politics, professionals, researchers, Robert Marks, scholars, scientism, scientists, Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences, social policy, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, teachers, technocracy, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, theology, Travel, Wesley J. Smith

In the shadow of 14,000-foot Pikes Peak, we’ll meet and learn from the top scientists and scholars in the ID community. Source

01Mar 2024 by Post

Life and the Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics

BIO-Complexity, Biological Information: New Perspectives, civilization, compensation, Darwinists, De, disorder, DVDs, entropy, fine-tuning, heat energy, human intelligence, Intelligent Design, isolated system, Mathematical Intelligencer, Moon, multiverse, natural forces, open system, open systems, order, physical constants, physics, Physics Essays, physics texts, Physics, Earth & Space, probability, Second Law of Thermodynamics, specified complexity, sun, tautology, Technology, temperature, The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, thermal entropy, tornados, William Dembski

This seem to be extremely improbable: “From a lifeless planet, there arose spaceships capable of flying to its moon and back safely.” Source

22Feb 2024 by Post

Reply to Free Will Deniers: Show Me

auto accident, behavior, Belief, brains, Chemistry, choice, Clarence Darrow, Culture & Ethics, Darwinian evolution, deterministic free will, faith, free will, free will deniers, ham sandwich, human beings, Jerry Coyne, LARPing, Ludwig Wittgenstein, materialists, Meaning, Neuroscience & Mind, parking lot, philosophers, physics, physiology, Politics, rain, Robert Sapolsky, Sam Harris, Stephen Cave, The Blue Book

If you carelessly dent a genuine free will denier’s car in a parking lot, he wouldn’t hold you responsible any more than he’d hold your car responsible. Source

18Feb 2024 by Post

Vilenkin: A Physicist in Flight from Intelligent Design

Adam Mann, Alexander Vilenkin, Big Bang, Closer to Truth, cosmological constant, cosmologists, cosmology, dark energy, Dark Energy constant, Energy, evolutionary science, fine-tuning, gravity, Intelligent Design, matter, physicists, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Rob Sheldon, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Scientific American, Subhir Sarkhar, universe

If you are not an ideological materialist, it would make more sense just to assume that our universe is designed because of the clear evidence for fine-tuning. Source