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01May 2024 by Post

Another Call for a “New Synthesis”

biology, Casey Luskin, cooperative effects, Darwinism, Denis Noble, dissidents, epigenetic inheritance, Evolution, Extended Synthesis, genetic change, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, Lamarckian evolution, New Synthesis, origin of life, panspermia, Peter Corning, physics, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, purposiveness, retroactive admission of ignorance, selective pressures, symbiosis, synergism hypothesis, synergistic selection, synergy, teleonomy, The Selfish Gene, unguided evolution, Wikipedia

I recently wrote a post critical of biologist Peter Corning’s “synergism hypothesis.” Afterwards Dr. Corning got in touch. Source

30Apr 2024 by Post

The Fuel Behind the Fire: Anti-Israel Protests & American Universities

AFR, Apologetics, app, Bobby Conway, cross examined, cross examined official podcast, Culture, faith, God, google play, iTunes, Jesus Christ, John Ferrer, Podcast, Politics, Radio, Spotify, stitcher, truth, Weekly Podcast

Podcast: Play in new window Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Email | TuneIn | RSS What’s driving the anti-Israel protests storming college campuses all across America? Schools like Columbia University, UCLA, Emory, Harvard, and Yale have been hit with massive pro-Palestinian mobs that have led to hundreds of arrests and violent threats against the Jewish student populations. Why are these angry (yet seemingly sophisticated) mobs targeting college campuses and how have they successfully managed to recruit students to join in the madness even at the threat of expulsion? In this midweek podcast, John guides us through a conversation investigating the ongoing anti-Israel protests as he also breaks down the geopolitical, historical, theological, and prophetic backdrop. He’ll also provide an update as to…

29Apr 2024 by Post

Do Fungi Have Free-Will?

agency, automaton, biology, Chemistry, Complexity, consciousness, decision-making, Evidence, Evolution, free will, fungal mind, genetics, human behavior, hyphae, imago Dei, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Internet, Judeo-Christian tradition, learning, Life Sciences, materialism, memory, Miami University, mind, mycelium, mycology, Neuroscience & Mind, Nicholas P. Money, Ohio, physics, randomness, science writers, scientists, sensitivity

Whenever a new hypothesis like this is published and calmly debated in scientific journals without arousing any furor, your first instinct may be to scoff. Source

28Apr 2024 by Post

The “Hubble Tension” and the Big Bang

Albert Einstein, Big Bang, blue shifts, cepheid variable stars, Cosmic Background Radiation, cosmological constant, Doppler shift, earth, Geology, Georges Lemaître, globular clusters, Hubble age, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble-Lemaître constant, Intelligent Design, Milky Way, Physics, Earth & Space, spiral nebulae, supernovae, universe, Vesto Slipher

One thing I am fairly certain about: overthrowing the Big Bang theory is not in the offing. Source

27Apr 2024 by Post

Top Ten Cheats in “Monumental” Origin of Life Research

abiogenesis, early Earth, enzymes, Eric Anderson, Evolution, fitness, Gerald Joyce, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, intelligent intervention, intervention, James Tour, medical engineers, origin of life, PNAS, Research, researchers, RNA world, Robert Stadler, Salk Institute, self-replicating RNA, Stephen Meyer, Washington Post

Brand new research from the Salk Institute has just been published relating to the origin of self-replicating RNA — a lynchpin in the RNA-world hypothesis. Source

26Apr 2024 by Post

Bioethicists Want to Rule the World!

abortion, Anglicans, anti-racism, assisted suicide, bioethicists, bioethics, carbon tax, Catholicism, cease-fire, Culture & Ethics, DEI, disability, embryonic stem cells, equity, experts, Gaza, gender, gobbledygook, Hastings Center Report, health, human cloning, Impact Ethics, indigeneity, lawyers, MDs, medical conscience, Medicine, philosophers, pro-life, Progressive Ideology, Race, Second Amendment, sexuality, technocracy, university professors, Vardit Ravitsky, woke ideology

It seems to me that the best approach to the policy opinions of mainstream bioethicists is to consider the source, shrug, and carry on. Source

26Apr 2024 by Post

Does Christianity Still Make Sense? | with Dr. Bobby Conway

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Podcast: Play in new window Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Email | TuneIn | RSS If God exists, then why are there so many church scandals? Why does racism exist and why are Christians so hypocritical? When it comes down to it, why does evil exist at all? In other words, does Christianity still make sense? This week Frank talks with author, philosopher, CIA instructor, and pastor of Image Church, Dr. Bobby Conway about his brand-new book, ‘Does Christianity Still Make Sense?: A Former Skeptic Responds to Today’s Toughest Objections to Christianity‘, where he documents his battle with unbelief and the steps he took to emerge successfully on the other side with his faith intact. How did a pastor with a thriving church and a national…

25Apr 2024 by Post

The Joy of Purposeful Solar Eclipses

atmospheric temperatures, cameras, Cassini mission, clouds, corona, Diamond Ring, Discovery Institute, eclipse, eclipse glasses, fourth contact, Guillermo Gonzalez, heavens, Illustra Media, Intelligent Design, intelligent observers, Jay Richards, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, meteorology, moon pies, Nelson University, Pam Bailey, Physics, Earth & Space, Prometheus (moon), providence, Saturn, soccer field, Solar Eclipse Experience, sun, temperature, Texas, The Privileged Planet, Waxahachie, weather

Intelligent design advocates have more fun at eclipses, knowing they are not just coincidental. That was certainly my experience on April 8. Source

24Apr 2024 by Post

The True Fathers of the Big Bang

Albert Einstein, Alexander Friedmann, Anglo-American Empire, Arthur G. Walker, Big Bang, Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists, Cold War, cosmology, Edwin Hubble, galaxies, George Gamow, Georges Lemaître, Henri Poincaré, Howard P. Robertson, Hubble-Lemaître Law, Intelligent Design, Inventeurs et Scientifiques, Jean-Pierre Luminet, P. J. E. Peebles, Physics, Earth & Space, Ralph Alpher, redshift, Robert Herman, space, theory of relativity, Vesto Slipher

The purpose of this book is not to exhaustively survey the history of cosmology through the centuries. Source

24Apr 2024 by Post

Evidence for the Book of Esther

4. Is the NT True?, Apologetics, Archaeology, Bellator Christi, Bible, bible archaeology, Christianity, Darius, Esther, Gospel, Mordecai, Persian Empire, Theology and Christian Apologetics, Tony Williams, truth

My family recently took the opportunity to attend a live theater production of The Book of Esther in Branson, Missouri. The Sight and Sound Theater production was riveting, and I was not prepared for how wonderful the set, the performers, and even the livestock (yes, livestock) brought the story of Esther to life. One of the other reasons I loved the show was that I happened to have recently read a wonderful historical summary of the evidence that exists to give good reasons to believe this is more than a fairy tale. In his book, The Authenticity of the Book of Esther, the late British historian Dr. Bill Cooper brings out the evidence, including extra-Biblical writings, archaeology, and even Nazi executions that bring the story to life in a different…