09Jun 2025 by Post

Do I have to go to church to be a Christian?

Christian Living, Church, Church-Attendance, Ecclesiology, Gospel, HeavenNotHarvard, Jennifer Defrates, Legalism, Theology and Christian Apologetics
Do I HAVE to go to church to be a Christian? The weekend is finally here, but instead of resting, I hop on my to-do list and finish Saturday feeling accomplished and exhausted. But, as I set my alarm for the morning, sometimes, I’m tempted not to rise and shine. Can’t I give God the glory, glory from home? Can I Worship from Home? Is worshipping from home a legitimate choice? Am I still a Christian if I don’t go to church? Going to church is not a part of salvation. When we add requirements to salvation or Christianity that Jesus did not, we add burdens and weights to the light yoke of Jesus. “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes…
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08Jun 2025 by Post

Engineered Complexity in the Microbial World

adaptations, bacteria, biology, Carolyn Hovde, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Dustin Van Hofwegen, E. coli, engineered complexity, Engineering, Evolution, evolutionary leap, genetic mechanisms, ID The Future, innovation, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Witt, Journal of Bacteriology, microbes, Podcast, Scott Minnich, University of Idaho
On a classic episode of ID the Future, host Jonathan Witt speaks with molecular biologist and professor Dustin Van Hofwegen about his research into the engineered complexity in microbial life. The two sat down at the yearly Conference on Engineering in Living Systems to discuss the event, which brings together biologists and engineers to study how engineering principles can be applied to living things, as well as Hofwegen’s article in the Journal of Bacteriology, co-authored with Carolyn Hovde and Scott Minnich, based on research conducted at the University of Idaho.  Hofwegen shares his research on the famous decades-long E. coli evolution experiment conducted by Richard Lenski, which showed the sudden appearance of an ability to utilize citrate after many generations. However, Van Hofwegen’s own Read More › Source
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06Jun 2025 by Post

Miracles in America’s Founding? with Tim Mahoney

America's Founding, Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Dr. Frank Turek, miracles, morality, Patterns of Evidence, philosophy, Podcast, religion, The American Miracle, theology, Tim Mahoney
Is the United States of America a product of divine intervention or mere coincidence? Frank welcomes Patterns of Evidence filmmaker, Tim Mahoney, on the program to discuss his exciting new docu-drama, ‘The American Miracle‘, a film that dives into some of the most astonishing and unexplainable events in America’s birth and rise to prosperity and power. During their conversation, Frank and Tim will answer questions like: What are some of the hard-to-believe events that allowed the Americans to win the Revolutionary war? What’s the difference between divine providence and a miracle? Did Benjamin Franklin and the rest of the Founding Fathers believe in deism? How did George Washington become such a great leader? Did the founders really believe that slaves were worth 3/5 of a person? How does the film counter…
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06Jun 2025 by Post

Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life

algorithms, Brian Miller, cognition, David Klinghoffer, decision-making, DNA, embryos, Evolution, genes, genetics, Harvard University, ID The Future, immaterial genome, information, Intelligent Design, life, Michael Levin, nucleotide alteration, physicalism, physicists, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, Podcast, purpose, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, scientific revolution, software, splicing, teleonomy, Tufts University
Immaterial? As in not material? It’s a daring proposition, to be sure, and one that has the power to change everything we understand about life. Source
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05Jun 2025 by Post

Two Neuroscientists on Life, Death, Eternity, and What Really Matters

astrocytoma, brain, cafeteria, Christianity, eternity, Faith & Science, Hope Is the First Dose, hospital, immortality, Lee Warren, left frontal lobe, life, Medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, Mystery of the Mind, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, neurosurgeons, Podcast, Skeptics, soul, textbooks, The Immortal Mind, tumor, universities, Wilder Penfield
Lee Warren interviews Michael Egnor on his book. It's a lively and accessible chat about how the human mind is not simply the brain and can even survive death. Source
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04Jun 2025 by Post

Countercultural Warriors…

Apologeticxs, bellatorchristi.com, Christianity, cultural apologetics, Gospel, Practical Apologetics, Spiritual Warfare, Theology and Christian Apologetics, Thomas Gentry, TJ Gentry, Worldview
An Age of Mirrors Ours is an age of mirrors. Addicted to the thought of self, individuals of profound dignity and worth huddle together en masse as they shuffle along the broad road that leads them anywhere but towards life. The sides of the road are lined with mirrors, reflections of this act or that moment or those days. Deceptively effective, the mirrors keep the eyes of the people on themselves as they desperately seek to find deeper meaning in rituals and events made shallow by selfishness. The mirrors control the persons, reducing them to spectators of their own existence. Always primping, endlessly posturing, carefully portraying what they believe is the best face for others to see, the faces in the mirrors present a staged collage of a life that…
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03Jun 2025 by Post

Why Are Farmers Being Murdered in South Africa? with Simon Brace

Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Dr. Frank Turek, Farmers, morality, philosophy, Podcast, religion, Simon Brace, South Africa, theology, USAID
Why are white farmers being murdered in South Africa, and why does the media ignore or deny it? Is colonization the biggest threat to the country with one of the highest murder rates in the world, or is there a different issue that politicians and policy makers need to bring to the table? Frank sits down with Simon Brace, National Director of Ratio Christi South Africa, to expose how Marxist ideology, CRT, and postmodern thinking have taken root in universities and are reshaping the soul of the nation. Together, Frank and Simon tackle pressing questions like: What happened when Shane’s uncle (a farmer) was murdered in 2007? What are the political parties in South Africa and how did the country become so vulnerable to Marxism and socialism? What’s happening at…
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03Jun 2025 by Post

New Book, The Immortal Mind, Out Today — The Brain Can Be Split, but Not the Mind

anatomy, bone, brain, consciousness, corpus callosotomy, Denyse O'Leary, EEG machine, epilepsy, legs, Medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, neurosurgery, pain medications, recovery room, seizures, skull, split-brain surgery, surgery, vital signs
Even when the brain is split in half, many important aspects of the mind remain unified. Thus, the mind is something that the brain isn’t. Source
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02Jun 2025 by Post

Evolution and Common-Sense Reasoning 

Children, College Physics, common science, computer simulation, computers, David Klinghoffer, Evolution, fundamental forces, humans, Intelligent Design, James Tour, materialistic science, Mathematical Intelligencer, mathematicians, Michael Kent, natural phenomena, Peter Urone, physics, Plato's Revenge, quantum mechanics, Rice University, Richard Sternberg, scientific evidence, scientific reasoning, Smart Phones, spaceships, supernatural, unintelligent
The equations of quantum mechanics do not describe exactly — even in theory — the effects of the fundamental forces on the fundamental particles of physics. Source
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