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05Dec 2023 by Post

Watch It Now: Tour and Cronin at Harvard

Assembly Theory, courage, creationism, Dave Farina, Discovery Institute, Evolution, Harvard University, Intelligent Design, James Tour, Lee Cronin, natural selection, origin of life, permission, roundtable, scientists, universe, YouTube videos, YouTubers

Above all, major props to Lee Cronin for showing up at all. That took courage. He earns my admiration. Source

04Dec 2023 by Post

Scientists Behaving Badly: Suppressing Intelligent Design Was Only the Start

activists, alarmism, Ann Gauger, cancel culture, censorship, climate change, climate disruption, climate science, Climate Uncertainty and Risk, ClimateGate, COVID-19, craziness, Denyse O'Leary, Education, Evolution News, free speech, funding, gatekeepers, Geology, global warming, Intelligent Design, Judith Curry, Medicine, misconduct, Peter Biles, Springer Nature, Wesley J. Smith

The best that each of us can do to fight back is to continue educating as many people as possible. Source

04Dec 2023 by Post

Soon vs Suddenly: An Important Distinction on Jesus’ Return

1000 years, 4. Is the NT True?, Apologetics, Christianity, Christians, Christ’s Return, end times, eschatology, Jesus Christ, Kent Suter, Parousia, revelation, the Lord’s Day

The word “soon” can be quite ambiguous, if not misleading. When asked about homework, a teenager might reply that they expect to finish sometime soon. In my family, that word could equal 30 seconds for one child or 30 minutes for another. But despite these variations, the word “soon” still conjures up an idea of an approaching realization, like a progress bar on your phone that reads 99% complete. We’ve all seen the signs that read, “Jesus is coming soon.” Taken straight from the Bible, we see no less than three times in one chapter when Jesus mentions “I am coming soon” (Rev 22:6-7, 12, 20). To some readers, this is a source of great hope and encouragement, but to others it is a source of mockery since it’s been…

02Dec 2023 by Post

Alfred Russel Wallace: Today’s Special Anniversary

1984, Alfred Russel Wallace, biography, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Heretic, Evolution, George Orwell, history, Intelligent Design, James T. Costa, Michael Flannery, Nature's Prophet, Princeton University Press

"We may regretfully add Wallace to the Party’s list of obfuscating revisions. The good news is that the truth is still available for those who want to know." Source

01Dec 2023 by Post

Liquid Harmony: How Our Bodies Manage Salt and Water

blood pressure, cell shrinkage, death, degradation, Engineering, Eric Anderson, health, heart, Howard Glicksman, human body, hypothalamus, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, kidneys, life, Medicine, Podcast, receptors, salt, sodium, sodium levels, sympathetic nervous system, water, water retention

Left to their own devices, the laws of nature tend toward degradation and death, not life. Source

01Dec 2023 by Post

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Bicentennial Year: A Cause for Celebration and for Sadness

Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, Arthur Conan Doyle, bicentennial, Charles Smith, Chemistry, Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection, cosmology, Darwinism (book), Elusive Victorian, Evolution, George Beccaloni, Heretic in Darwin’s Court, In Darwin’s Shadow, intelligent cause, Intelligent Design, intelligent evolution, James T. Costa, Lord Rayleigh, Man’s Place in the Universe, Martin Fichman, Michael Shermer, Nature's Prophet, Origin of Species, Peter Raby, Radical by Nature, Revolt of Democracy, Richard Dawkins, Ross A. Slotten, Social Environment and Moral Progress, spiritualism, that biology, The Geographical Distribution of Animals, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Wonderful Century, The World of Life, Tropical Nature, Usk, Wales, William Crookes, William Fletcher Barrett, William James, William Paley

All the hyperbole shows the fix is in — Wallace has been made safe for scientism and Darwinian reductionism. The academy can breathe easy. Source

30Nov 2023 by Post

The Sense of Hearing Is a Masterpiece of Engineering

articular bone, auricle, birds, cerebral cortex, ceruminous glands, cochlea, columella, deafness, ear, ear canal, eardrum, electrical signals, Engineering, equilibrium, fish, foresight, hair cells, hearing, Howard Glicksman, Human Origins, incus, Intelligent Design, malleus, middle ear, nasopharynx, natural selection, ossicles, outer ear, oval window, pinna, quadrate bone, reptiles, saccule, sound waves, stapes, Steve Laufmann, tectorial membrane, temporal bone, temporal lobes, tympanic membrane, utricle, vertebrates, vibrations, Your Designed Body

It strains credulity to suppose that an unguided process of random variation sifted by natural selection could assemble such a delicately arranged system. Source

29Nov 2023 by Post

Thus Saith the Science: Recalling the Wisdom of C. S. Lewis on His 125th Birthday

atheists, C.S. Lewis, corruption, Culture, Culture & Ethics, ethics, Faith & Science, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, John West, material processes, materialism, mind, relativism, scientific progress, scientism, The Magician’s Twin

Here, I conclude a conversation with Dr. John West about Lewis’s prophetic warnings to us about science and scientism. Source

28Nov 2023 by Post

How Biochemistry Led Me to the Creator | with Dr. Fazale “Fuz” Rana

AFR, Apologetics, app, CIA, cross examined, cross examined official podcast, faith, Fazale Rana, God, google play, iTunes, Jesus Christ, Podcast, Politics and Religion, Radio, Spotify, stitcher, truth, Weekly Podcast

Podcast: Play in new window Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Email | TuneIn | RSS How in the world did a biochemist with a Muslim father find his saving grace through Jesus Christ? Fazale “Fuz” Rana is president, CEO, and senior scholar of Reasons to Believe (RTB), an organization dedicated to communicating the powerful scientific case for God’s existence and the Bible’s reliability to both Christians and non-Christians. Though he initially embraced the evolutionary paradigm, he eventually drew the conclusion that only a Creator’s involvement could explain the elegance of biochemical systems. But how? In this midweek podcast episode, Dan sits down with Fuz (a former agnostic) to discuss how science and faith intricately work together, ultimately pointing to the reality of intelligent…

28Nov 2023 by Post

The New Post-Junk-DNA Paradigm of Molecular Biology: RNA Genes

anomalies, BioEssays, biology, brain function, dogma, epigenetic information, Evidence, Evolution, evolutionary theory, function, gene regulation, genes, genetic programming, geochemical anomalies, inheritance, Intelligent Design, John Mattick, Junk DNA, molecular biology, non-coding DNA, paradigm shift, RNA genes, Thomas Kuhn, transgenerational memory

RNA genes have many functions but a large proportion entail gene regulation-related functions that fall within the category of epigenetics. Source