Person of Interest | with J. Warner Wallace

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Podcast: Play in new window Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Android | iHeartRadio | Email | TuneIn | RSS Detective Wallace is back to show us through his new book, Person of Interest, the monumental and unparalleled impact Jesus of Nazareth has had on the entire world.  But this isn’t a softball interview.  Frank plays devil’s advocate with Jim to see how he responds to some tough objection’s skeptics might levy against some of his points, such as: Sure, Jesus has had a big impact, but couldn’t Christianity be based on a lie and then promoted by the Roman empire? You say Christians started science, but everyone was a Christian back then, so what’s the big deal? Aren’t science and Christianity at odds?  After all, look at how the…
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Nearly All of Evolution Is Best Explained by Engineering

adaptive mechanisms, aluminum soils, analyzers, biology, biophysicists, cave fish, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, DNA, dog breeds, Engineering, engineering model, environmental conditions, evolutionary theory, gene regulatory network, gulls, hair, Harold Garner, Intelligent Design, James Shapiro, John Fondon, Laridae, Life Sciences, maize, Midas cichlids, natural genetic engineering, natural selection, phenotypic plasticity, Ralf Sommer, sodium, temperature, yeast
Transposable elements modify gene regulation in maize to confer drought tolerance, alter flowering time, and enable plants to grow in toxic aluminum soils. Source
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La clave para reducir el estrés en la toma de decisiones

Apologética, Apologética cristiana, Biblia, Bob Perry, Cristianismo, Cristianos, Español, Teología, True Horizon, Voluntad de Dios
Por Bob Perry «¿Cuál es la voluntad de Dios para mí vida?» Es común escuchar esta pregunta al venir de alguien que está reflexionando sobre una difícil decisión en la vida. Tomar decisiones grandes puede ser confuso, pero utilizar «la voluntad de Dios» como el punto de referencia para el éxito le agrega un elemento de agonía a todo. La clave para que la toma de decisiones sea menos estresante es tener claro lo que esto significa realmente. ¿Y si tomamos la decisión incorrecta y elegimos el lugar equivocado para vivir? ¿El trabajo equivocado? O, lo que es más desalentador, ¿el cónyuge equivocado? Piénsalo. Si nos casamos con la persona equivocada significa que nuestro cónyuge estaba destinado a casarse con otra persona, y la persona con la que debía casarse…
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Arthropod Architects Amaze Engineers

abdomen, Anomalocaris, aphids, arthropods, beetles, Berlin, bioengineers, biology, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, chelicerates, crickets, Darwin's Dilemma, Darwin's Doubt, engineers, Evolution, flies, gnats, honeybees, Intelligent Design, Marrella, MIT, pill bugs, PNAS, praying mantises, spider-silk, spiders, Stephen Meyer, thorax, trilobites
They appear in the early Cambrian fossil record: the first examples of the most diverse phylum on earth. Who knew their skills would become the envy of human engineers? Source
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Serpents, Dragons, and the Bible

Apologetics, Bible, Dragons, gospels, Questions about the Bible, Ryan Leasure, Satan, Skeptics, The Serpent, theology, Theology and Christian Apologetics
By Ryan Leasure If you’re from an Appalachian snake-handling church, I’m sorry to disappoint. This is not THAT kind of post. Instead, it’s a post about how the Bible portrays snakes, serpents, and dragons. More than that, it’s about how a mighty warrior defeats the serpent to rescue his precious bride. If that story sounds familiar to you, it’s because so many great children’s tales of the past echo this same story. You see, the Bible presents three main characters:[1] 1) The Serpent (the villain—Satan), 2) The Damsel in Distress (the people of God), and 3) The Serpent Slayer (the hero—Jesus). It’s worth noting that “Serpent” is a biblical catch-all term that includes both snakes and dragons.[2] In other words, serpent is an umbrella category while snakes and dragons are more specific. Also worth…
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Norm Macdonald’s God Hypothesis 

Albert Einstein, August Kekulé, benzene, Bob Hope, Canadians, cancer, comedy, Culture & Ethics, Faith & Science, God Hypothesis, Guy MacPherson, intuition, Jerry Seinfeld, jokes, Leo Tolstoy, leukemia, moth, murder, Norm Macdonald, North America, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, Sam Kinison, Saturday Night Live, scientists, shaggy dog
Norm casually took on the entire scientific community for “refusing to explore” what he considered the “fundamental question” of God’s existence. Source
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Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection Has Left a Legacy of Confusion over Biological Adaptation

adaptation, Biological Emergences, biology, brain, cave fish, Charles Darwin, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Evolution, externalism, hurricane, Intelligent Design, internalism, Jerry Fodor, John Gerhard, Marc Kirschner, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Mother Nature, natural selection, New York Times Book Review, Phreatichthys andruzzii, Pocahontas, Richard Lewontin, Robert G. B. Reid, Stephen Jay Gould, sweating, What Darwin God Wrong, William Paley
Our ability to adapt to fantastically diverse circumstances did not result from the happenstance of environmental conditions. Source
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Detecting Malicious Intent in Undisputed Design

Brent Spiner, Darwinism, forensic science, Holly Else, Intelligent Design, Matthew Hutson, Microprocessors and Microsystems, Mind Matters, Nature (journal), Neuroscience & Mind, Nicholas Caputo, peer-review, PNAS, Robert J. Marks, Silicon Valley, Sleeping Beauty, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Starship Troopers, William Dembski
Within clearly designed objects, malicious intents can lurk. Intelligent design theory handles those, too, and should. Source
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Major “Ibero-American Intelligent Design Congress” Reaches the Spanish-Speaking World

Ana María Garzón Porras, Antonio Roman Martinez Fernandez, biology, Brazil, Central America, Costa Rica, Cristian Aguirre Del Pino, Evolution, evolutionary biology, Honduras, Human Origins, Intelligent Design, Juan Manuel Torres, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, Quezia Salgado, Return of the God Hypothesis, Ricardo Bravo Méndez, Roberto Biaggi, São Paulo, Saulo Reis, Spanish, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars
I had fantastic translation assistance from a Summer Seminar alumnus and valued colleague, Quezia Salgado, and my talk went well. Source
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