Zombie Metaphysics: Dawkins Versus Pope Leo

child, Claude, Claudia, Computational Sciences, consciousness, Conversations, design, employee, encyclical, evolutionary logic, humans, Large Language Model, LLMs, machines, men, metaphysics, mice, person, Pope Leo XIV, Richard Dawkins, self-reflection, slave, spiritual communion, Ted Chiang, telos, The Atlantic, The Free Press, Tyler Cowen, UnHerd, wisdom, word-generation machines, writing, zombies
This casual devaluing of consciousness is actually intertwined with the rush to ascribe it to AI. The ultimate conclusion is the same. Source
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God the Artist: What You Never Knew About David & Goliath

1 samuel 17, bible meaning, Biblical truth, Christian Apologetics, Christianity, david goliath, Dr. Frank Turek, morality, philosophy, Podcast, religion, theology
“God can slay the giants in your life!” Is that REALLY the moral of the story when it comes to the infamous historical account of David and Goliath? Get ready as Frank peels back the curtain and reveals the hidden meaning behind the Bible’s most famous showdown in 1 Samuel 17. Tune is as he digs into the history, archaeology, and related Bible verses from this remarkable victory while answering questions like: What is biblical typology, what are some examples, and why is it important? Does archaeology correlate with the biblical accounts of Goliath and the existence of giants? How does David’s role as Israel’s champion point to Jesus? If David points to Jesus, to whom is Goliath pointing? Why did David take Goliath’s head to Jerusalem? What is the…
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Evolutionists Need a Refresher Course in Natural Selection

"survival of the fittest", algorithm, Ariel Chipman, Artificial Selection, balancing selection, BioEssays, Cambrian Explosion, co-option, conservation, Darwin Devolves, Dyna Rochmyaningsih, Evolution, Galápagos Islands, gene duplication, genetic drift, genetic mutations, Hugo de Vries, hybridization, introgression, John Sanford, John Templeton Foundation, magic, Matti Leisola, Michael Behe, mount improbable, Mutant Ninja Turtles, natural selection, negative selection, Owen D. Jones, personification, Phillip E. Johnson, polyploidy, process, programming, pterosaur, purifying selection, Richard Lewontin, Robert Hazen, scientific reasoning, Spiderman, stabilizing selection, Stuff Happens Law, subfunctionalization, The Design Inference, Tom Bethell, tuatara, William Dembski, Winston Ewert
Abuses of the concept of natural selection abound not only in science news but in scientific papers in major journals as well. It’s time for a remedial course. Source
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Abortion Versus Sacrificial Living

abortion, Apologetics, Christianity, Gospel, John Ferrer, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Matthew 16:24-25, pro-choice, pro-life, Take up your cross, www.AbortionMuseum.org
“Then Jesus said to His disciples, ‘If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.’” Matthew 16:24-25, NASB Abortion isn’t just a surgical procedure. It’s not just an action, a choice, or a policy. It’s also a culture. Abortion-choice culture is a range of institutions and actions driven by a specific set of ideas about women, sex, motherhood, children, family, and liberty. Somewhere packed inside that culture is a set of expectations about what “normal” women and families should be like. Revolutionary Motherhood   Rachel Jankovic, a mother of seven children, is decidedly abnormal. She writes: “Everywhere you go, people want to…
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“ID Takes Center Stage”: Brian Miller on the Meyer/Halper Debate

atheists, Battle of the Big Bang, Brian Miller, Cambridge University, Christianity, cosmology, debates, Egyptian Exodus, Faith & Science, history, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Justin Brierley, Nile, Phil Halper, philosophy, physicists, Return of the God Hypothesis, Royal Astronomical Society, science and faith, Stephen Meyer, theology
"Halper is one of the most formidable proponents of atheism, but he also admits that the discussion with Meyer was 'the toughest debate I’ve ever had.'" Source
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Scientists Ask, “Is Materialism Holding Science Back?”

Adam Frank, astrophysicists, biologists, consciousness, dualism, emergence, Güneş Taylor, Institute for Arts and Ideas, Lisa Feldman Barrett, materialism, Michael Levin, neuroscientists, perspectival view, Philosophy of Science, physicists, religion, scientific reasoning, spacetime, Stephen Hawking, straightjacket, superstition, third-person view, universe, University of Rochester, Werner Heisenberg, YouTube channels
Is materialism a straightjacket? The very fact that a respectable conversation is going on around this question tells us that something has changed. Source
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What No One Ever Told You About the American Revolution with Eric Metaxas

Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Divine providence, Dr. Frank Turek, Eric Metaxas, morality, philosophy, Podcast, religion, Revolution, theology, US history
There’s never been a nation like the United States of America. But do you know the wild and true story of how it came into existence? On our 250th anniversary, the hunger for America’s story has never been greater, and who better to tell it than historian and radio host Eric Metaxas, author of seven New York Times bestsellers including the ground-breaking biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer? This week, Eric joins Frank to discuss his brand-new 600+ page book, ‘Revolution: The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World‘, which explores in-depth the divine providence and heroic stories behind the founding of the United States. Together, Eric and Frank answer questions like: Why is the book titled ‘Revolution’ and not ‘The American Revolution’? What is American exceptionalism? What makes…
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A Dose of Engineering Realism Over AI Hype

artificial general intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, autonomy, Computational Sciences, computer science, computer scientists, Discovery Institute, Donald C. Wunsch, Engineering, engineering realism, engineers, hype, IEEE, information, intelligence, Intelligent Design, inventors, Mind Matters News, neurosurgeons, Robert J. Marks, society, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Donald C. Wunsch has spent decades working at the intersection of engineering, AI, and real-world systems. Source
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Why Meaning Overcomes the Materialist View

air, Bible, communication, earth, equations, Faith & Science, food, Genesis, George MacDonald, humans, illusion, Intelligent Design, laws of nature, life, materialism, materialistic worldview, matter, Meaning, movements, particles, perception, Periodic Table, physics, reality, Stephen L. Talbott, The New Atlantis, theism, universe
The quasi-scientific abstraction that glibly asserts our being “nothing more” than particle interactions is as wrong as it is right. Source
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