Podcast – Apologetics Ministry

16Jan 2021 by Post

Avi Loeb: “Nature Does Not Produce Such Things”

'Oumuamua, aliens, astronomer, astrophysicist, Avi Loeb, design detection, design filter, explanatory filter, extraterrestrial life, extraterrestrials, Harvard University, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Intelligent Design, Live Science, Michael Egnor, Physics, Earth & Space, Podcast, solar system, space archaeology, William Dembski

Loeb describes his journey to a radical position on the strange interstellar visitor that’s been dubbed 'Oumuamua. Source

09Jan 2021 by Post

Algorithmic Specified Complexity: Genesis

algorithmic specified complexity, biology, Evolution, evolutionary informatics, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, evolutionary theory, ID The Future, information theory, Intelligent Design, Mount Fuji, Mount Rushmore, Podcast, poker, Robert J. Marks, snowflakes, William Dembski, Winston Ewert

Winston Ewert discusses the mathematical foundation for why we know Mount Rushmore is designed in a way that Mount Fuji isn’t. Source

16Dec 2020 by Post

Tour, Miller: Cells, and Life, from a Design Perspective

Brian Miller, cell's, Discovery Institute, engineers, error correction, ID The Future, information, Intelligent Design, origin of life, physicists, Podcast, researchers, Rice University, synthetic organic chemistry

The conversation turns to the challenge and necessity of quickly evolving error-correction mechanisms in origin-of-life scenarios. Source

07Dec 2020 by Post

Determinism: A “Bizarre Position” Held by Scientists “with Great Confidence”

biophysicists, Cornelius Hunter, David Hume, determinism, free will, ID The Future, initial conditions, Ludwig van Beethoven, Mike Keas, natural law, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Podcast, Sabine Hossenfelder, science, universe, William Shakespeare

If it’s true, then all one says or thinks — right or wrong, true or false — was determined some 13.8 billion years ago. Source

05Dec 2020 by Post

Listen: Darwinism, Bioethics, and Human Rights

animal standing, anti-humanism, Ban Ki-moon, bioethics, Cass Sunstein, Darwinism, ecological advocacy, ecology, human dignity, human rights, ID The Future, Podcast, The War on Humans, Uncategorized, United Nations, Wesley Smith

Wesley Smith explains why we need to take the threat of the anti-humanism movement seriously. Source

23Nov 2020 by Post

Smith: Personhood for Animals? What About Plants?

animal rights, animals, Cass R. Sunstein, Culture & Ethics, Declaration of Independence, human exceptionalism, human rights, ID The Future, Nonhuman Rights Project, personhood, PETA, Podcast, Reductionism, The War on Humans, Wesley Smith

Bioethicist Wesley Smith examines the meaning of the term “personhood” and its implications for human rights. Source

14Nov 2020 by Post

From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Advice for Intelligent Design Dissidents

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, cancel culture, censorship, Culture & Ethics, dissidents, free speech, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Live Not By Lies, Michael Egnor, neurosurgeon, Nobel Prize, Podcast, silencing tactics, Soviet Union, United States

Solzhenitsyn’s basic advice is simply not to participate with lies, and to refuse to speak what one does not believe. It’s unnervingly relevant counsel. Source

03Nov 2020 by Post

A Contest More Consequential than a U.S. Election? Yes! John Lennox Explains

Against the Tide, Atheism, Communism, documentary, Eastern Europe, election, Evolution, Faith & Science, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, John Lennox, Kevin Sorbo, Oxford University, Podcast, rationality, Stephen Meyer, United States, Worldview

Lennox tells about discovering the damage an atheist worldview does. He saw it firsthand in Communist Eastern Europe, and he saw what it does to rationality. Source

01Nov 2020 by Post

Against the Tide: John Lennox on the New Atheism

C.S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Christianity, debates, Discovery Institute, documentary, Faith & Science, family, ID The Future, John Lennox, mathematicians, New Atheism, Northern Ireland, Oxford University, Peter Atkins, Podcast, Richard Dawkins, scientific atheism, Sold Out, Stephen Meyer, theaters, tickets

The movie will be in theaters for three nights only in November, and will feature a conversation between Dr. Lennox and Stephen Meyer following the screening. Source

24Oct 2020 by Post

In Biological Origins, Bottom-Up or Top-Down Causation?

bottom-up, causation, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, materialism, Michael Denton, origins science, Podcast, Privileged Species, Reductionism, top-down

Michael Denton says that the evidence has been growing for top-down causation, which poses a challenge to reductionist and materialistic origins science. Source