22Oct 2021 by Post

Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality

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Podcast: Play in new window Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Android | iHeartRadio | Email | TuneIn | RSS The top apologetics book over the past two years on Amazon has been Hillary Morgan Ferrer’s Mama Bear Apologetics (yes, I think it’s sold even more than Mere Christianity). Well, Hillary is back with an equally great new book called Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality. And she writes about hard issues in a fun and memorable way. For example, here’s a short excerpt: The idea that sexuality should be guarded is not very popular. Our society sees it as just a prudish phase we went through back in the Victorian era. Thanks to Freud, we are now supposedly enlightened, understanding that sexual repression is basically the gateway to all mental illnesses. Be…
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22Oct 2021 by Post

Una cuestión de días: interpretando el primer capítulo del Génesis

Apologética, Biblia, Cristianismo, Días literales, Español, Genesis, Jonathan McLatchie, Los días en Génesis, Teología, Tierra joven, Tierra vieja
He estado publicando una serie de artículos sobre la mejor manera de interpretar los primeros capítulos del Génesis y sobre cómo la ciencia puede iluminar los textos bíblicos y guiar nuestra hermenéutica. En este artículo, exploraré el texto del primer capítulo de las Escrituras, Génesis 1, en vista a determinar si este texto compromete a una interpretación de Tierra joven de los orígenes o, al menos, la medida en que el texto tiende a apoyar tal punto de vista, si es que lo hace. Es común que los creacionistas de la Tierra joven supongan que, si se puede demostrar que la interpretación del texto de la Tierra joven es el enfoque hermenéutico más valioso o más simple, entonces este es el punto de vista que uno debe preferir, y por…
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22Oct 2021 by Post

Life: Fearfully and Wonderfully Fine-Tuned

biology, Daniel Díaz, Discovery Institute, entropy, fine-tuning, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Mind Matters News, Ola Hössjer, population genetics, probability theory, Robert J. Marks II, Stockholm University, University of Miami, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence
At the center of the discussion are three technical papers, each co-authored by one or more of the three members of the podcast discussion. Source
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19Oct 2021 by Post

Attempt to Explain Away the Beginning of the Universe Fails to Distinguish Imagination from Reality

Alan Guth, Big Bang, Bruno Valeixo Bento, causal set, causal set cosmology, cosmology, entropy, Ethan Siegel, Flatiron Institute, gravitational contraction, Intelligent Design, NASA, oscillating model, Paul Sutter, Physics, Earth & Space, Planck length, Pluto, Stav Zalel, Stephen Meyer, Stony Brook University, universe
Here I will address another desperate attempt to avoid a cosmic beginning, this one by astrophysicist Paul Sutter. Source
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18Oct 2021 by Post

The Tragedy of Francis Collins’s Model for Science-Faith Integration 

abortion, Bible, Casey Luskin, China, Christianity, Christianity Today, Culture & Ethics, Darwin Day in America, Darwinian evolution, Downs syndrome, Ed Stetzer, ENCODE, Evangelical Christians, Francis Collins, gain-of-function research, George W. Bush, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Witt, Junk DNA, Karl Giberson, Kenneth Miller, Mark Galli, Medicine, Michael Behe, Michael Carome, National Institutes of Health, Obama Administration, pastores, premature babies, professors, pundists, Science (journal), The Language of God, The New England Journal of Medicine, University of Alabama-Birmingham, vaccination
The depiction of Francis Collins as someone who has developed a good model for integrating faith and science is in many respects a tragic myth. Source
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16Oct 2021 by Post

Critics Respond to Stephen Meyer’s New Book (Without Mentioning Him by Name)

Alan Guth, Alexander Vilenkin, Arvind Borde, BGV, Bible, Big Bang, Christianity, CMBR, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmic microwave background radiation, cosmology, critics, Ethan Siegel, Evolution, Harry Potter, inflationary theory, Intelligent Design, Judaism, Physics, Earth & Space, Return of the God Hypothesis, Singularity, Stephen Meyer, universe, Voldemort
The critics, including Ethan Siegel, appear to see Meyer much like Voldemort in the Harry Potter series. Source
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15Oct 2021 by Post

Studies on Stickleback Fish Further Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation

biology, cichlid fish, constrained variation, Evolution, evolutionary icons, fatty acids, Freshwater, genetics, Intelligent Design, natural genetic engineering, phenotypic plasticity, prickly sculpin, saltwater, scientific materialism, stickleback fish
Cichlid and stickleback fish are two of the most iconic examples of adaption that biologists present as evidence for the plausibility of evolutionary processes. Source
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14Oct 2021 by Post

Studies on Cichlid Fish Demonstrate the Predictive Power of Engineering Models for Adaptation

adaptation, biology, cichlid fish, engineered systems, Evolution, evolutionary theory, genes, genetic diversity, information, Intelligent Design, Kara Feilich, Lake Malawi, Lake Tanganyka, Lake Victoria, mutation rate, natural genetic engineering, operational gravity well, phenotypic plasticity, principal component analysis, tracking model of adaptation
Cichlid variation do not primarily originate from random mutations but from engineered systems. Source
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