The Science of a Sunset: Unlocking the Secrets of Our Atmosphere

aerosols, atmosphere, atmospheric measurements, dust, forest fire, Forrest Mims, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Maverick Scientist: My Adventures as an Amateur Scientist, meteors, NASA, ozone, Physics, Earth & Space, science writers, scientists, smoke, sunset, twilight, twilight photometer, twilight science, volcano emissions
Many of us have enjoyed a colorful twilight or a stunning sunset. But how often do we think about the science behind these memorable conditions? Source
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What If I Don’t Like Either Candidate?

Apologetics, Christianity, cultural apologetics, Gospel, Harris, How should Christians vote, How would Jesus Vote?, John Ferrer, Legislating Morality, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Trump, Who Should I vote for?
If you’re like me, this upcoming election feels like a choice between which electric outlet to jab a fork into. I’m not a big fan of either candidate. It may be tempting to just sit-out this election. But we shouldn’t give up that easily. This November, you won’t be voting for a pastor, or a personality. You’re just voting for a president either. You’re voting for a package deal. We’re going to get the president and everything that comes with them. So, we owe it to ourselves to look past their personality and consider the rest of the caravan that’s coming along with them. Here are eight reasons why you and I should still vote in this election even if we don’t like either candidate. If You Won’t Vote for…
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For Your Own Good: The Looming Health Authoritarianism

Anthony Fauci, Culture & Ethics, euthanasia, experts, freedom, Frontiers in Public Health, gender-affirming care, government, health authoritarianism, mastectomies, medical establishment, Medicine, Nature (journal), organ harvesting, professional journals, puberty blockers, public health, public policy, Racism, Science (journal), technocracy, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, United Nations, vaccine mandates, WHO
If you want to see what is going to go wrong with society next, read the professional journals. Source
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Have We Lost Our Minds? | with Dr. Stan Wallace

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What’s the correlation between the soul, the brain, and the mind? Many Christians today struggle to grasp the concept of an immaterial soul and how it impacts us physically and mentally. For this midweek podcast, Frank sits down with Dr. Stan Wallace to discuss his book, ‘Have We Lost Our Minds?: Neuroscience, Neurotheology, the Soul, and Human Flourishing‘, which exposes the errors that even some Christians are making in their denial of the soul and challenges Christians to come to a sound understanding of how the soul functions in relation to the body. As the president and CEO of Global Scholars, Stan has made it his mission to equip Christian professors around the world to have a redemptive influence among their students and colleagues. Frank and Stan will answer questions like:…
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Theist Doctor, Materialist Doctor

algorithm, amino acids, Aristotle, chickens, Evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, evolutionary theorists, explanations, G. K. Chesterton, human body, Intelligent Design, Kantian wholes, laws of physics, life, medical doctors, Mona Lisa, neo-Darwinian framework, oncologists, purposefulness, quantum physics, science of purpose, screwdriver, Stephen J. Iacoboni, Stuart Kauffman, supernatural, Thomas Aquinas, universe
To be a good medical doctor, you have to treat the human body as if its parts have purpose and function. There’s really no way around it. Source
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The Scandal of Elite Evangelical Compromise

academia, Apologetics, Big Eva, Bill Dembski, BillDembski.Sustack.com Shepherds for Sale, Christian culture, Christianity, Evangelical, Gospel, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Megan Basham
A blogger I read regularly alerted me to Megan Basham’s new book Shepherds for Sale, subtitled How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda. It was released [at the] end of July. I was intrigued by the book because it claimed to be exposing compromise infecting many evangelical elites, especially among Southern Baptists. As it is, she is a Southern Baptist, and for over a decade I had moved in that world both at the more liberal Baylor University (the “largest Baptist university in the world”) and then at two of the main Southern Baptist seminaries (in Louisville and in Ft. Worth). Baylor president Robert Sloan had hired me in 1999 to found and run an intelligent design think tank (the Michael Polanyi Center). The backlash from Baylor faculty was intense,…
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A Quarter of Comatose Patients May Be Aware But Unable to Communicate

brain activity, brain responses, brain scans, cognitive motor dissociation, comatose, communication technologies, consciousness, Elon Musk, fMRI, Julian Nowogrodzki, Medicine, Neuralink, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, Noland Arbaugh, patient assessment, patients, Technology
“Covertly” means that the patients were not able to respond directly but brain activity showed that they understood what was asked of them. Source
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How to Love Your Neighbor Through Politics | with Wintery Knight & Desert Rose

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What’s the best way to love your neighbor? Christians have a biblical responsibility to love their neighbors by being politically engaged, which is why we’re kicking off a series of very important podcast episodes this fall with the #1 goal of educating you on where each party stands on important cultural, moral, and economical issues. On today’s episode, Frank is joined by special two guests, Wintery Knight and Desert Rose, who have experienced firsthand the negative implications of what happens when a country loses sight of biblical values and goes totally off the rails. How can we prevent the same mistakes from happening here in America? They’ll answer questions like: What is socialism and was Jesus a socialist? Is a forced redistribution of wealth the answer to America’s problems? Does the Book of Acts…
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Robin Collins’s “Fine-Tuning for Discoverability” Argument

anthropic fine-tuning, cosmology, Creation, creator, discernable-discoverability-optimality range, entropy, fine structure constant, fine-tuning, fine-tuning for discoverability, initial conditions, Intelligent Design, John Templeton Foundation, Messiah College, particle physics, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Robin Collins, signal, The Privileged Planet, Two Dozen (or So) Arguments for God, Yale University
In November 2000 we each presented at the “Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe” symposium at Yale University. Source
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