Science and Faith in Dialogue – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

22Mar 2025 by Post

Does Cosmic Fine-Tuning Suggest Theism or Deism?

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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

15Mar 2025 by Post

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

14Jan 2025 by Post

The End of the Machine Metaphor?

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Rather than purpose deriving from a purposeless process like natural selection, natural selection can only occur when life itself is the result of purpose. Source

31Dec 2023 by Post

No. 2 Story of 2023: Intelligent Design Passes the Dawkins Test

atheists, biology, Brian Miller, Caroline Parins-Fukuchia, Cédric Blais, common ancestry, discordance, Dominik Schrempf, Evolution, evolutionary genomics, genus, Gergely Szöllősi, Gonzalo Giribet, Gregory W. Stull, intelligent agents, Intelligent Design, John M. Archibald, Juli Berwald, Michael DeGiorgio, Nature (journal), Nature Ecology & Evolution, phylogenetic studies, phylogenomics, phylogeny, pseudogenes, Queen Mary University of London, Rasmus Nielsen, Richard Buggs, Richard Dawkins, Richard H. Adams, Science and Faith in Dialogue, species, Stephen A. Smith, The Greatest Show on Earth, Todd A. Castoe, Tree of Life, UC Berkeley

After it passed his challenge, will atheist evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins now embrace the theory of intelligent design? Source

09Jun 2023 by Post

On Human Origins, New Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Models for Reconciling Science and Religion

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In the final section of the paper, I proposed a scoring system to rate the models. Source

15May 2023 by Post

Intelligent Design Passes the Dawkins Test

atheists, biology, Brian Miller, Caroline Parins-Fukuchia, Cédric Blais, common ancestry, discordance, Dominik Schrempf, Evolution, evolutionary genomics, genus, Gergely Szöllősi, Gonzalo Giribet, Gregory W. Stull, intelligent agents, Intelligent Design, John M. Archibald, Juli Berwald, Michael DeGiorgio, Nature (journal), Nature Ecology & Evolution, phylogenetic studies, phylogenomics, phylogeny, pseudogenes, Queen Mary University of London, Rasmus Nielsen, Richard Buggs, Richard Dawkins, Richard H. Adams, Science and Faith in Dialogue, species, Stephen A. Smith, The Greatest Show on Earth, Todd A. Castoe, Tree of Life, UC Berkeley

After it passed his challenge, will atheist evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins now embrace the theory of intelligent design? Source

07May 2023 by Post

Sandgrouse Takes the Royal Society to Design School

Africa, biology, Biomimetics, bird feathers, birds, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, chicks, Engineering, feathers, Flight, Intelligent Design, Jochen Mueller, Johns Hopkins University, Life Sciences, Lorna Gibson, males, MIT, Namaqua sandgrouse, nest, Royal Society Interface, Science and Faith in Dialogue, southwestern Africa, water

Episode guest Brian Miller talks with host Casey Luskin about the details of the ingenious design. Source

09Apr 2023 by Post

Engineering Principles Explain Biological Systems Better than Evolutionary Theory

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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

08Apr 2023 by Post

James Tour on Origin-of-Life Dealbreakers

Casey Luskin, cell's, early Earth, Evolution, ID The Future, intelligent agency, Intelligent Design, James Tour, non-living matter, origin of life, Podcast, researchers, Rice University, Science and Faith in Dialogue

Tour doesn’t argue researchers will never be able to design a cell from non-living matter. He does say that if it is achieved, it will be well into the future. Source

06Apr 2023 by Post

Local Fine-Tuning and Habitable Zones

Anthropic Principle, astrobiology, biology, black holes, climatology, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmological constant, cosmological initial conditions, density of gas, density of stars, exobiology, fine-tuning, Frederik van Niekerk, fundamental forces, galactic disk, gas metallicity, geophysics, global tuning, habitability, hydrogen, Intelligent Design, life, local tuning, Nico Vorster, physical constants, physicists, Physics, Earth & Space, planetary dynamics, Science and Faith in Dialogue, solar system, stellar evolution, supernova rate, universe, Weak Anthropic Principle

In considering fine-tuning, physicists assume that the constants and initial conditions (and possibly the physical laws) could have been different. Source

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