05Mar 2021 by Post

Michael Ruse on Purpose: The Flies in the Ointment

abstract thought, art, C.S. Lewis, Daniel Everett, Darwin Industry, Darwinian theory, Darwinism as religion, Evolution, Faith & Science, Frederic Harrison, hedgehog, human exceptionalism, John Henry Bridges, mathematics, Michael Ruse, music, Noam Chomsky, On Purpose, Pirahã people, Richard Dawkins, scientific reductionism, South America, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Henry Huxley, Whiggishness
Ruse’s chronological snobbery might be forgiven if the claims he makes for Darwinism can be unequivocally substantiated. Source
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03Mar 2021 by Post

Futuristic Evolution by AI — The Darwin Connection

Artificial Intelligence, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, computers, Darwinism, designers, Edinburgh Napier University, Emma Hart, Evolution, Fantasia, humans, ID The Future, Michael Behe, natural selection, oversight, Robert J. Marks, robots, Technology, That Hideous Strength, The Conversation, The Magician’s Twin, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Walter Bradley Center
To evolutionists, whatever oversight humans achieved must have evolved, and will continue to evolve in our creations. Source
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01Mar 2021 by Post

Today, “Canceled” Scientist Eric Hedin Gets His Voice Back

atheists, Ball State University, cancel culture, Cancel Science, China, Discovery Institute Press, eric hedin, First Amendment, free speech, freedom from religion foundation, God’s Not Dead, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, Rice Broocks, scientists, The Boundaries of Science, United States, universe, University of Chicago
Cancel culture had no name in 2013. It has since become one of the major worries in contemporary life. Source
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01Mar 2021 by Post

Behemoth, the Hippo, & Egyptian Pehemu

Apologetics
Most commentators today seemingly refuse to consider even the possibility that the Behemoth of Job 40:15-24 refers to an extinct dinosaur. They appear to have bought into the notion that humans and dinosaurs never lived together and thus suggest that the hippopotamus is being described. One effort to substantiate this identification is the claim that the Hebrew word for “behemoth” corresponds linguistically to the Egyptian word pehemu which, it is further claimed, is the word for “water ox.” Following the publication of Bochart’s Hierozoicon in 1663, which identified Behemoth with the hippopotamus, Paul Ernst Jablonski (1693-1757), German Reformed theologian and orientalist, proposed a connection between the Hebrew word “behemoth” and the Egyptian language, using the alleged connection to support the contention that Behemoth is the hippo. According to an article…
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26Feb 2021 by Post

Study: Hands of “Ardi” Indicate a Chimp-like Tree-Dweller and Knuckle-Walker

Ardi, Ardipithecus ramidus, bipedality, bonobos, chimpanzees, Evolution, Germany, hominins, human ancestor, Human Origins, Madelaine Böhme, primates, quadrupedality, Rosetta Stone, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Science Advances, The Scientist, Tim White, University of Tübingen
Initially, Ardi was widely called the “oldest human ancestor,” due to its supposed skeletal traits that indicated an early bipedal (upright walking) species. Source
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25Feb 2021 by Post

Botany Journal Revisits Charles Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”

American Journal of Botany, Charles Darwin, common ancestor, common descent, Cretaceous Period, Eric Anderson, Evolution, flowering plants, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Jurassic, Life Sciences, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, Podcast, Richard Buggs
A recent paper by Richard Buggs shows that a problem for evolutionary theory has grown more acute since Darwin’s time. Source
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24Feb 2021 by Post

Subduction and the “Mechanism” of Intelligent Design

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Archean Eon, crustal material, diapirs, early Earth, geologists, Geology, inference to design, Intelligent Design, lithosphere, mechanism, mélange rocks, nature, Nature Communications, Neoproterozoic Era, plate tectonics, subduction, subduction zones
We can see plenty of evidence that intelligent design in nature is real, but it’s not always clear exactly how that design is instantiated in nature. Source
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