SETI and Fermi Paradox Are Nextdoor Neighbors of Intelligent Design

2001: A Space Odyssey, agnostics, apartments, Arthur C. Clarke, astronomy, atheists, Carl Sagan, Contact (novel), design detection, Fermi paradox, George Gaylord Simpson, humanoids, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Jill Tarter, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Michael Behe, observational astronomy, radio astronomers, Science (journal), Science and Culture Today, science fiction, SETI, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Meyer, tandoori chicken, William Dembski, William Paley, Winston Ewert
What do SETI researchers, usually atheists or agnostics (cf. Jill Tarter as an example of the former, Carl Sagan of the latter), want to find? Evidence of MIND. Source
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Back to the Future with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Aeon, August Weismann, biology, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, epigenetics, eugenicists, Evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, history of science, internal changes, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jessica Riskin, living things, Napoleon, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, Reign of Terror, Scientific American, seals, The Power of Life, Weismann barrier
Lamarck believed that “all living beings are constantly transforming themselves” and thus life forms shape their own evolution. Source
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My Top 5 Bible Study Resources for Understanding Difficult Passages

Apologetics, ApologeticsGuy.com, Bible study, Christianity, CrossExamined, Gospel, hermeneutics, Mikel del Rosario, Research Categories: Is the New Testament True?
What are the best Bible study resources to help you understand difficult verses, text-critical issues, and the background of Scripture? Some people have asked me for my top recommendations for different kinds of Bible study resources that you can use to help in your Bible study, especially when you come across a text you don’t easily understand. Whether you’re studying a whole book of the Bible or you’re working through a passage and come across a verse you don’t understand or a text-critical issue that you don’t understand, having the right tools can make a huge difference. Here are my five recommendations for Bible study resources that I think every serious student of Scripture should consider. A Bible Dictionary The first one is a Bible dictionary like the Holman Bible…
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4 Ways Mormons, Muslims, & Jehovah’s Witnesses CHANGE the Gospel with Dr. Brady Blevins

Brady Blevins, Christian Apologetics, Christian Heresies, Christianity, Dr. Frank Turek, False Teachings, morality, philosophy, Podcast, religion, theology
A Muslim co-worker says Jesus never claimed to be God. Your Mormon neighbor says, “We believe in Jesus too!” Then, a Jehovah’s Witness opens the New World Translation and starts reading what sounds like scripture. Are you ready to respond? Or are you suddenly hoping somebody changes the subject? Frank welcomes Dr. Brady Blevins, Senior Apologist at Watchman Fellowship, and ‘Conversations with the Faiths‘ course instructor, for an eye-opening conversation about Christian heresies. What are these groups teaching their followers, and how can Christians help them recognize the deception? Tune in as Frank and Brady answer questions like: Where does the word ‘Mormon’ come from and why are Mormons now trying to distance themselves from the term in favor of ‘The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’? Is Mormonism…
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Engineering Places Constraints on Cell Size that Evolutions Cannot Explain

ALH84001, Ana Garoña, artificial evolution, astrobiologists, biology, cell division, cell size, college students, cytoplasm, Engineering, enzymes, Evolution, fitness, genome, Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, homeostasis, Howard Glicksman, Intelligent Design, Jan M. Skotheim, lipids, Mars, meteorite, mutations, nucleic acids, PNAS, Portugal, proteins, senescence, Shicong Xie, Steve Laufmann, Target of Rapamycin, telephone booth, tennis balls, Volkswagen, yeast cells
Cells reach a Goldilocks size for their needs. Evolutionists are at a loss to say how cells hit the sweet spot for smooth functioning. Source
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How Small Became Beautiful: A Brief History of Information Storage

A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, compact discs, Computational Sciences, computers, Delft University of Technology, DNA, electronic storage, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Engineering, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, George Gaylord Simpson, gigabytes, Gordon Moore, hard drives, heat-assisted magnetic recording, IBM, information, Kryder’s law, Macintosh, Mark Kryder, megabytes, Michael Denton, Microsoft, molecular calculation, Moore’s law, nanometers, Pan Am, physics, printing, quantum holography, RAMAC, Richard Feynman, Stanford University, Technology, terabyte, Thomas Newman, University of Washington, volumetric density
For readers whose eyes may be glazing over with all these large exponentials for measuring DNA storage, let me offer an observation from Michael Denton. Source
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What Does the Bible Say About Trees

Apologetics, bellatorchristi.com, Christianity, Gospel, Steven Johnson, Theology and Christian Apologetics
In the Midwest, we have all 4 distinct seasons. Now is one of my favorite seasons, fall. The fall colors can be amazing, with reds, yellows, and oranges. We have many different kinds of trees: hardwoods, softwoods, fruit trees, and some evergreen trees. God uses trees as a symbol in the Bible that every person can relate to, even children, and then uses it to teach us wisdom and truth. Who hasn’t drawn a tree and included roots, a trunk, branches, leaves and fruit? This article will hit a few of the many trees listed in the Bible. The word “tree” appears in the Bible hundreds of times. It starts in Genesis 1:11 with, “And God said, Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed,” and ends with…
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Legal Liability for the AI Geniuses? It’s So Far Largely Undiscussed

AI agents, ambition, Anthropic, artificial inteligence, Axios, banks, Computational Sciences, Coyotec, Gary Marcus, Gizmodo, grade school, Hugging Face, irresponsibility, Jason Clinton, Journal of the American Medical Association, Kate Knibbs, laziness, Legal Science (jurisprudence), medical training, murder, Philadelphia, Sam Altman, Sophie Warburton, Stanford University, stupidity, Technology, This Is Money, White House, Wired
AI can become a serious social pest without rogue superagents or cyberDoomsday. Human stupidity could do all the heavy lifting. Source
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Immanent Agency: It’s Evolution by Design, After All

agency, agency theory, Aristotle, Beyond Mechanism, bioelectricity, Biological Theory, biology, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, cellular biology, cheetah, chemical stimuli, cognitive biology, Evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, fear, goal-directedness, heart, hunger, immanent design, Intelligent Design, James Shapiro, kidney, libido, Little Gidding, living systems, materialistic paradigm, Michael Levin, Modern Synthesis, Neo-Darwinism, Pamela Lyons, Peter A. Corning, prokaryotes, science of purpose, Stuart Kauffman, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, T. S. Elliot, thirst
Agency theory as proposed certainly is not "magic," but it specifically invokes teleology within its operating framework. Source
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Did We REALLY Find Noah’s Ark? PLUS The Most Amazing Jesus Discovery with Dr. Jeremiah J. Johnston

Biblical Archaeology, Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Dr. Frank Turek, Faith and Politics, Frank Turek, Jeremiah J. Johnston, morality, Noah's Ark, philosophy, Podcast, religion, theology
Did we REALLY find Noah’s Ark or are millions of people being misled by internet hype? Have we REALLY found the burial box of Jesus’s brother, James? And what do jihad and progressive Christianity have to do with America’s upcoming midterm elections? Dr. Jeremiah J. Johnston, president and founder of Christian Thinkers, joins Frank to tackle some of the biggest controversies currently making headlines in archaeology, politics, and the Church. Together, they answer questions like: How does progressive Christian, Texas Senate Candidate James Talarico, twist Scripture to defend his political positions? Is the Bible REALLY silent on abortion? Which is more important in the ballot box: policies or personalities? What does Muslim Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed get wrong about illegal immigration? What can Americans learn from the growing influence…
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