05May 2024 by Post

Is Darwinian Philosopher Daniel Dennett the End of an Era?

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Dennett’s image of the human mind as a user-illusion was very fashionable but it never made any sense. Source
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03May 2024 by Post

Stephen Meyer Interview with Piers Morgan: Science, God, and the Loss of a Parent

death, dementia, Faith & Science, grief, human being, Intelligent Design, interviews, Joe Rogan, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, metaphysics, philosophers, Physics, Earth & Space, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, spirit, Stephen Meyer, subjective experience, The Joe Rogan Experience, Tucker Carlson, YouTube videos
Meyer discusses the recent loss of his mother to dementia. Talking about grief leads to a powerful point, that may be unfamiliar to many viewers. Source
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03May 2024 by Post

Censoring the Babylon Bee? | with Seth Dillon

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Podcast: Play in new window Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Email | TuneIn | RSS What exactly constitutes “free speech” and falls under the protection of the First Amendment? As the political left increasingly advocates for (and often achieves) unconstitutional censorship, the line between what’s permissible and what’s not in public dialogue becomes increasingly blurred. In this age dominated by social media and cancel culture, who ultimately holds the authority in deciding what is or isn’t allowed in the public square? This week, Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee, sits down with Frank to discuss concerns about big tech’s role in American censorship, why the Babylon Bee was censored, and how he’s combating it through satire and comedy using his popular Christian…
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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
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30Apr 2024 by Post

The Fuel Behind the Fire: Anti-Israel Protests & American Universities

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Podcast: Play in new window Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Email | TuneIn | RSS What’s driving the anti-Israel protests storming college campuses all across America? Schools like Columbia University, UCLA, Emory, Harvard, and Yale have been hit with massive pro-Palestinian mobs that have led to hundreds of arrests and violent threats against the Jewish student populations. Why are these angry (yet seemingly sophisticated) mobs targeting college campuses and how have they successfully managed to recruit students to join in the madness even at the threat of expulsion? In this midweek podcast, John guides us through a conversation investigating the ongoing anti-Israel protests as he also breaks down the geopolitical, historical, theological, and prophetic backdrop. He’ll also provide an update as to…
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29Apr 2024 by Post

Do Fungi Have Free-Will?

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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
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28Apr 2024 by Post

The “Hubble Tension” and the Big Bang

Albert Einstein, Big Bang, blue shifts, cepheid variable stars, Cosmic Background Radiation, cosmological constant, Doppler shift, earth, Geology, Georges Lemaître, globular clusters, Hubble age, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble-Lemaître constant, Intelligent Design, Milky Way, Physics, Earth & Space, spiral nebulae, supernovae, universe, Vesto Slipher
One thing I am fairly certain about: overthrowing the Big Bang theory is not in the offing. Source
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27Apr 2024 by Post

Top Ten Cheats in “Monumental” Origin of Life Research

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Brand new research from the Salk Institute has just been published relating to the origin of self-replicating RNA — a lynchpin in the RNA-world hypothesis. Source
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