How Best to Appreciate Paleolithic Cave Art

anthropologists, archaeologists, art gallery, arts, Basque country, cave art, cave bears, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, cave painting, Chauvet Cave, cinema, claws, Cultural Anthropology, Diego Garate, Eduardo Palacio Pérez, El Castillo, France, graffiti, Human Origins and Anthropology, installation art, paintings, Paleolithic period, researchers, Smithsonian Magazine, Spain, torchlight, University of Cantabria, virtual reality, Werner Herzog
Of course, the experience wouldn’t be really complete without simulating the threat of a cave bear trapping the artists. Source
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A CHRISTIAN Story?! Exploring the #1 Fantasy Show in America with Jeremy Boreing

Christian Apologetics, Christian Fantasy, Christian Storytelling, Christianity, Dr. Frank Turek, Faith and Art, Jeremy Boreing, morality, philosophy, Podcast, religion, The Pendragon Cycle, theology
Christians have plenty of truth to share. But why does “Christian entertainment” sometimes struggle to tell a great story? What if the problem isn’t the message, but how we tell it? Frank sits down with producer, cultural commentator, and Daily Wire co-founder, Jeremy Boreing, whose latest project puts those ideas to the test. As the writer and director of the highly successful, ‘The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin‘, Jeremy has seen a 30-year dream become the #1 fantasy series on Amazon Prime Video. What did it take to get there, and what can its success teach Christians about faith, art, and the stories we tell? Tune in as Frank and Jeremy unpack questions like: Why was sharing and developing this story so important to Jeremy? Why do Christians sometimes…
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Agency as the Emerging Naturalist Paradigm

A Matter of Time, agency, agent theory, Amahury J. Lopez-Diaz, biology, Carlos Gershenson, Denis Walsh, environments, Everything Flows, evolutionary biology, evolutionary theory, goal, Intelligent Design, intentionality, Jaques Monod, life, materialism, means, metaphysics, naturalism, Newtonian physics, objectcy, ontology, repertoire, requirement, science of purpose, scientism, synthetic realization, teleology, thermodynamics, University of Toronto
Jaques Monod, along with other champions of 20th-century scientism, was entirely mistaken. Source
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Toward Theism, but Cautiously: Reviewing Flew, Egnor, and O’Leary

Academic Questions, Anthony Flew, art, atheists, Big Bang, composers, Dan Asia, Denyse O'Leary, faith and science, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Michael Egnor, music, National Association of Scholars, Neuroscience & Mind, North Texas State University, philosophy, religion, settled science, soul, The Immortal Mind, theism, There Is a God, universe, University of North Texas
"As with the Big Bang before its widespread acceptance, we may find ourselves increasingly compelled to take such possibilities seriously — even if cautiously." Source
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The Prior Environmental Fitness of Nature: An Argument for the Existence of God

2. Does God Exist?, Apologetics, Christianity, design argument, Environmental Fitness of Nature, Gospel, Intelligent Design, JonathanMclatchie.com, scientific apologetics, teleology
In the sixteenth century, the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) developed a model of the solar system which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at its center. Shortly before his death in 1543, Copernicus published his book, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.[1] This sparked the beginning of a major scientific paradigm shift and marked the dawn of the Copernican Revolution, ultimately leading to the widespread abandonment of the Aristotelian geocentric model of the solar system and the acceptance of the heliocentric model in its place. Today, the Copernican revolution is thought by many to have dethroned man from his central place in nature. Recent scientific breakthroughs, however, have brought the debate over man’s place in the cosmos full circle. Over the past several decades, science has amassed considerable evidence…
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MY STORY: A Spiritual & Intellectual Journey with John Lennox – EXTENDED CUT

Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Christianity and Science, Dr. Frank Turek, Extended Interview, faith and reason, John Lennox, morality, philosophy, Podcast, religion, theology
What makes John Lennox one of the most winsome and influential Christian apologists of our lifetime? Don’t miss this special EXTENDED CUT which includes even more fascinating stories and insights from his lifetime of boldly defending the Christian faith in lecture halls, debates and the public square. Together, Frank and John go beyond the previous episode to discuss: How is Christianity the answer to the problem of evil? What are the inconsistencies in Richard Dawkins’ atheistic views? Why does John think everyone should read Tom Holland’s book, ‘Dominion’? How should we evangelize Muslims and other monotheists? Has science disproven God? If you haven’t already, be sure to get a copy of John’s book, ‘My Story: A Spiritual and Intellectual Autobiography’. It’s a must-read for anyone curious how a brilliant mathematical…
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Be Careful! Don’t Think These Authors Are Practicing Intelligent Design

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The idea of finding an intelligent message encoded in the standard genetic code is certainly a fascinating possibility. Source
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Genderbread Person Part 3: Biological Sex

Apologetics, Christianity, gender, Genderbread Person, Gospel, Hillary Ferrer, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, LGBTQ, MamaBearApologetics.com, Queer Theory, sex
Nothing summarizes our discussion more today than the famous scene from Kindergarten Cop where a little boy respectfully raises his hand to speak and waits to be called upon. His words of wisdom for the class that he so ardently and patiently waited to share? “Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina.” In 1990, this was considered so obvious that it was part of the joke. Fast forward thirty years, and a statement like this could now be prosecuted as hate speech.  According to the genderbread person curriculum image, the simple definition of biological sex is: “. . . the physical traits you are born with or develop that we think of as ‘sex characteristics,’ as well as the sex you are assigned at birth.” Let’s break this statement down. Perception…
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How Much Should Students Use AI? Preferably Not at All

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New York City recently announced a moratorium on AI use in K-12 classes for the 2026-2027 school year. Source
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