Design Concepts: Interoception Is a Match for Proprioception

Andrew McDiarmid, David Coppedge, eBioMedicine, Fiona MacDonald, health, human body, ID The Future, information, Intelligent Design, interoception, Medicine, mental health, Nils Kroemer, proprioception, Science and Culture Today, ScienceAlert, self-monitoring, Senses, sixth sense, The Conversation, University of Tübingen, Well-being
The take-home point is surely this: Our bodies have all sorts of ways of giving us information that do not run through our senses. Source
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Who Do You Say That I Am, James Talarico? Part II: Luke 1:31–38 Is Not About Mary’s Consent To Create

abortion, Apologetics, Christianity, consent, Democrat Party, Gospel, James Talarico, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Mother Mary, Progressive Christianity, Ryan Crews, Texas Politics, virgin birth
Series Introduction: James Talarico is not the first politician to invoke the Christian faith or the Bible to score political points. He is, however, the first I am aware of who has been enrolled in seminary while running for office. Talarico is certainly popular among prospective voters, but he has received significant scrutiny from pastors and academics because of his theological statements. He may be a faithful representative of his denomination, but he has brought the views of that denomination into the limelight due to the widespread publicity of his senatorial race. We do not elect political candidates for their religious beliefs, though we may have reason to support or oppose a candidate when their religious beliefs affect their policy positions. Talarico is a politician and not a pastor, and…
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“HELP! Conspiracy Theories Are Ruining My Marriage!” 37 Questions to Consider

Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk, Christian Apologetics, Christian Marriage, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Dr. Frank Turek, marriage advice, morality, philosophy, Podcast, religion, theology
Is it possible to reason with someone who believes that corroborated evidence is part of the deception of conspiracy theories? In this episode, Frank responds to a question from a concerned husband whose marriage is under serious strain due to conspiracy theories surrounding the murder of Charlie Kirk. While discussing the Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing last week, and the biblical principles surrounding gossip, deception, and false accusations, Frank tackles questions like: What evidence emerged during Robinson’s preliminary trial and why is the judge being so cautious? Is every contradiction, misunderstanding, or misspoken word a lie? How do you have a productive conversation with someone who refuses to follow the evidence? What does the Bible teach about gossip, deception, and false accusations? What’s the difference between a possibility and evidence for…
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To Crowdsource DNA, or Not to Crowdsource DNA: A Microbe’s Decision Pathway

AbrB, antibiotics, autoregulation, Bacillus subtilis, bacteria, biology, cassettes, cell fate, chemotaxis, CodY, ComK, competence, crowdsourcing, DegU, dense overlapping regulons, DNA, Energy, environmental conditions, exponential growth, feed-forward loops, gene expression, gene regulatory network, graduate school, housekeeping, Intelligent Design, isoleucine, leucine, metabolic pathways, metabolism, microorganisms, principal investigator, Rok, Sigma-H, single input modules, sporulation, stress, superintellect, transcription, valine, virulence
These are the same type of understandable and logical computation circuits that humans design. What can we learn from observing this similarity? Source
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New Evidence for Christianity from “God: The Science, The Evidence”

2. Does God Exist?, Apologetics, Arguments for God, BellatorChristi, Brian Chilton, Christianity, Cosmological Argument, design argument, Evolution, God: The Science the Evidence The Dawn of Revolution, Gospel, Michel-Yves Bolloré, Olivier Bonnassies, scientific apologetics
Michel-Yves Bollore’ and Olivier Bonnassies recently wrote a massive treatise defending the existence of God titled God: The Science, the Evidence—The Dawn of a Revolution. Three things are very intriguing about this book. First, neither Bollore nor Bonnassies is a theologian. In fact, both are notable scientists. Bollore serves as a computer engineer and has a master’s and a doctorate from the University of Paris Dauphine. Bonnassies is a graduate of Polytechnique (X86) and the Institut Catholique de Paris with a license in theology. Bonnassies started up numerous businesses over the span of his career. Second, both Bollore and Bonnassies approach the topic of God from a strictly scientific perspective. In their massive tome, they offer many reasons to believe in the God of the Christian faith. Their main argument is that…
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Sweeping Europe, a Pagan Religion Has Daggers Out for This Technology

air conditioning, Associated Press, atonement, carbon emissions, China, Christianity, deaths, Europe, extreme heat, Faith & Science, forgiveness, global warning, guilt, heat wave, Love, monkeys, monotheism, pagan religions, Punishment, red warnings, religion, Sarah Salviander, secular religion, self-preservation, supernatural, Technology, The Story of Everything
A religion that sees humans as merely “an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet” would consider these unnecessary deaths hardly worth noticing. Source
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Bible Expert Reveals Who REALLY Wrote the Gospels?

Bart Ehrman, Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Dr. Frank Turek, Gospel authors, Gospel reliability, Mike Licona, morality, New Testament, philosophy, Podcast, religion, theology
Did Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John really write the Gospels? Or were these books actually anonymous from the beginning? And if they were, what would that mean for Christianity? This week, Frank sits down with New Testament scholar Dr. Mike Licona to unpack his latest debate with Bart Ehrman, one of the world’s best-known New Testament skeptics. What did Mike actually agree with Bart on? And where does he think Bart leans too heavily on speculation instead of the historical evidence? Together, they unpack Bart’s biggest objections and tackle questions like: Why does Bart Ehrman think the Gospels are anonymous, and is he right? Why does it matter who wrote the Gospels? What if the Gospel writers weren’t eyewitnesses? Were the Gospel writers really too uneducated to write the Gospels?…
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On Minds and Machines, Richard Dawkins’s Curious Inconsistency

artificial inteligence, atheists, biology, chatbots, ChatGPT, Claude, Computational Sciences, computing, consciousness, intelligence, Intelligent Design, large language models, living systems, personal identity, philosophy, plagiarists, Richard Dawkins, Technology, UnHerd
If we encounter far more advanced informational technology in living organisms, isn’t the same intuition at least worth considering? Source
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Young Benjamin Franklin: The Goodness of Nature’s Design

A Great Awakening, Angel Studios, Benjamin Franklin, creator, Declaration of Independence, Dominic Sandbrook, endowed by our creator, Faith & Science, Founding Fathers, George Whitefield, infant mortality, Intelligent Design, Jesus, John Adams, John West, Lazarus, providence, Resurrection, Sight & Sound, theistic evolutionists, theology, Tom Holland, Whittaker Chambers, William Paley, Witness, Young Washington
Franklin is famous for his aphorisms and science experiments, but fewer people know he also had a keen interest in theology. Source
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