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27Oct 2020 by Post

When Scientists Make Truth Claims Outside Science

Alexander Oparin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Baden Powell, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, clockmaker, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, creator, David Hume, Erasmus Darwin, Evolution, evolutionists, Francisco Ayala, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Isaac Newton, John Ray, Joseph Le Conte, Kenneth Miller, mosquitos, religion, Robert Chambers, scientists, Stephen Jay Gould, theology, Thomas Burnet, universe

Here is a small, representative sampling of such claims over the past three centuries. These claims are not from science, but they drive science. Source

26Oct 2020 by Post

Is Fine-Tuning “More Extreme” in Biology or Cosmology?

biology, career destruction, censors, censorship, Chemistry, cosmology, creator, Darwinists, Douglas Axe, fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, John Stonestreet, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Michael Denton, molecular machines, Ola Hössjer, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, rebuttal, reputation, Return of the God Hypothesis, specified complexity, Steinar Thorvaldsen, Stephen Meyer, The Miracle of the Cell, water, William Dembski

As authors Thorvaldsen and Hössjer say, “Biology is inherently more complicated than the large-scale universe and so fine-tuning is even more a feature.” Source

25Oct 2020 by Post

Against the Tide: The Classroom Where C. S. Lewis Taught

C.S. Lewis, Christianity, classroom, dying, faith, Faith & Science, imagination, John Lennox, Lennox Q&A, mathematician, Oxford University, Philosophy of Science, science

"They were the last lectures Lewis ever gave. I’m very pleased to have been at them." Source

24Oct 2020 by Post

In Biological Origins, Bottom-Up or Top-Down Causation?

bottom-up, causation, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, materialism, Michael Denton, origins science, Podcast, Privileged Species, Reductionism, top-down

Michael Denton says that the evidence has been growing for top-down causation, which poses a challenge to reductionist and materialistic origins science. Source

23Oct 2020 by Post

Against the Tide: Oxford’s John Lennox Describes Kinship with C. S. Lewis

2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity, Against the Tide, Alvin Plantinga, atheists, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Christianity, Discovery Institute, England, faith, Faith & Science, John Lennox, Lennox Q&A, mathematics, naturalism, Northern Ireland, Oxford University, philosophy, Philosophy of Science, rationality, science, science fiction, Stephen Meyer, That Hideous Strength, Thomas Nagel

"I owe him an immense amount because although he wasn’t a scientist, he understood science. He understood the implications and the philosophy of science." Source

22Oct 2020 by Post

Design Filter Is Best Bet for Finding Liars

bacteria, cheaters, Cody Porter, cooperators, courtroom, Darwinism, deception, drugs, electromagnetics, fact-checkers, forensic science, forensics, gravity, humans, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, liars, lie detection, lying, mantid, Model Statement, Mount Rushmore, Nicholas Caputo, objective truth, perfect crime, postmodernism, Return of the God Hypothesis, Royal Society, Stephen Meyer, torture, truth-tellers, University of Portsmouth, Why Evolution Is True, William Dembski

Not all intelligent design is benevolent. Design can deceive. Can ID techniques filter the true from the false? Source

21Oct 2020 by Post

Scientific Paper Reaffirms New Genes Required for Cambrian Explosion

arthropods, bilateral symmetry, bilaterians, body plans, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, ecological factors, eLife, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, fossil record, genes, genetic information, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, Nature Communications, orthology, oxygenation, paleontology, Precambrian, Stephen Meyer

The notion that many genes would be required for the Cambrian explosion may seem unsurprising — what is surprising is that anyone would challenge the idea. Source

20Oct 2020 by Post

Epiphany — Denton on Nature’s Fitness for Life

astrobiology, carbon, carbon chemistry, carbon-based life, Friedrich Wöhler, intelligent agency, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Michael Denton, organic chemistry, silicon-based life, teleology, The Miracle of the Cell, The Wonder of Water, vitalism

Biologists once wondered about a “life force,” but Michael Denton sees intelligence in the design of carbon, its unique properties, and its relation to water. Source

19Oct 2020 by Post