17Apr 2022 by Post

Luskin, Shapiro: Has Intelligent Design Waned?

academic freedom, Adam Shapiro, biology, biology teachers, Casey Luskin, conferences, Evidence, Evolution, evolutionary theory, free speech, Geology, graduate students, high school, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Justin Brierley, Law, New York Times, News Media, Nobel laureates, peer-reviewed literature, Research, Science and Religion (book), scientific reasoning, scientists, teaching, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Unbelievable?
Shapiro suggests that ID often amounts to a presenter highlighting an amazing feature in biology and then giving glory to God. Source
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15Apr 2022 by Post

How Plants Talk When We’re Not Around

anesthesia, associative learning, biology, Claude Bernard, communications, consciousness, fungi, gene expression, glutamate, Hailing Jin, heliotropism, Life Sciences, Mimosa pudica, miRNAs, nervous system, Neuroscience & Mind, plants, psychology, Rainer Hedrich, RNA, sensory hair, shameplant, TMAO, Venus flytrap, vernalization, worms
One genuine surprise in recent decades has been the discovery that plants have nervous systems like animals. Source
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15Apr 2022 by Post

Why Good Friday is the Best News Ever

Bible, Crucifixion, Culture CrossExamined, Frank Turek, Jesus Christ, New Testament, Resurrection, Theology and Christian Apologetics
By Frank Turek Despite intense personal and political division, we all agree on one thing: something is terribly wrong with this world.  Pain, suffering, injustice, and death affect us all at some point because we live in a broken world.  And we live in a broken world because we are all personally broken. Who hasn’t committed any moral wrongs? (If you claim you haven’t, you just committed a moral wrong—lying!)  The truth is we are all fallen.  While we hate the evil done by others, we rarely notice the evil we do. We may call our political opponents hypocrites, but we don’t even live up to our own standards much less God’s.  None of us are perfect.  We are all guilty of something. It’s only when we admit our guilt…
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15Apr 2022 by Post

Contradicciones en la vida de un cristiano

Cristianismo, Español, Iglesia, Luke Nix, moral
Por Luke Nix Introducción La Iglesia cristiana no es ajena a la hipocresía. La Iglesia está compuesta por pecadores que no siempre practican lo que predican, y a veces esa práctica está en franca contradicción con lo que predicamos. Algunos de los actos más atroces han sido cometidos por cristianos mientras hablan  la verdad. Parece que la mala conducta sexual dentro de la Iglesia está siempre en la mira. Desde que tengo uso de razón, he tenido conocimiento de numerosos escándalos sexuales dentro de la Iglesia. Como a cualquier persona, algunos me han tocado de cerca y otros de lejos. Los que nos afectan de cerca tienden a ser particularmente devastadores, tanto  física y emocionalmente, como espiritual e intelectualmente. Es importante que los afectados se aferren a una cosmovisión que…
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14Apr 2022 by Post

Is the Resurrection Unbelievable?

AFR, Apologetics, app, cross examined, cross examined official podcast, CrossExamined, crossexamined podcast, faith, Frank Turek, God, google play, iTunes, Jesus Christ, Joe Biden, Michael Brown, New Testament reliability, Podcast, podcasting, Radio, Radio Show, Scott Klusendorf, Spotify, stitcher, truth, Weekly Podcast
Podcast: Play in new window Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Android | iHeartRadio | Email | TuneIn | RSS Can we really believe Jesus rose from the dead? If the Resurrection of Jesus didn’t really happen, then Christianity is false (as even the Apostle Paul admitted in 1 Cor. 15). On the other hand, if it really did happen 1,989 years ago (give or take a few years), then the essentials of the Christian faith really are true. So which is it? Justin Brierley, host of the wonderfully interesting Unbelievable show in the UK, joins Frank to discuss the evidence for God and the Resurrection of Jesus. Justin has more insights than most because he doesn’t sit in a Christian echo chamber. He engages the best atheist and…
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14Apr 2022 by Post

Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

animal rights, animals, bacteria, Climate News, Congress, courts, Culture & Ethics, deer, ecosystems, Ecuador, elephant, fish, forests, geological features, germs, habeas corpus, human exceptionalism, individual animals, insects, Laws, Life Sciences, nature right, New York State, plants, rivers, Switzerland, viruses, water
Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too. Source
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13Apr 2022 by Post

Frankenstein and His Offspring

abiogenesis, Aristotle, biology, cryogenic freezing, Evolution, Frankenstein, Funny Man: Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Harold Urey, Intelligent Design, Mary Shelley, Mel Brooks, movies, origin of life, panspermia, Patrick McGilligan, satire, Stanley Miller, Svante Arrhenius, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series), Young Frankenstein
"Abiogenesis" seems to draw its strength from pseudo-scientific folk-beliefs that life could somehow be made to emerge from non-life. Source
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13Apr 2022 by Post

5 Reasons the Resurrection of Jesus is NOT a Copy of Ancient Pagan Myths

3. Are Miracles Possible?, Alisa Childers, Easter, Jesus, Jesus Christ, miracles, New Testament, Resurrection, Theology and Christian Apologetics, Uncategorized
By Alisa Childers We are coming up on a time of year when the resurrection of a virgin-born child whose followers called the “Good Shepherd” and “Messiah” is celebrated. He had twelve disciples, performed miracles, and sacrificed himself for the peace of the world. He was buried in a tomb only to rise from the dead three days later. His followers went on to celebrate his resurrection every year, and this celebration eventually became what we call “Easter. Think I’m talking about Jesus? Nope. I’m talking about Mithras. This is a common claim that is made by skeptics all over popular media, the internet, and even in some universities. The only problem—it’s simply not true. According to Mithraic tradition, Mithras was born out of solid rock (I guess it counts…
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12Apr 2022 by Post

C. S. Lewis Unmasks the Pretensions of SETI

Arecibo Message, Arecibo telescope, Argument from Reason, Artificial Intelligence, Beacon in the Galaxy, Cambridge University, chess, computer games, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, intelligent ETs, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, John West, Jonathan Jiang, Martin Rees, Matthew Sparkes, Messaging Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, METI, Physics, Earth & Space, Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, SETI, Stephanie Pappas, Stephen Hawking, The Magician’s Twin, Voyager Golden Records, Voyager spacecraft
How can METI / SETI advocates repudiate intelligent design while depending on the design inference for their work? Source
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