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20Nov 2023 by Post

Mimesis and Identifying the Intelligent Designer

atheists, biology, Chemistry, climate change, creative activity, entertainment, Evolution, Faith & Science, high school, human beings, intelligent activity, Intelligent Design, materialists, mimesis, music, non-fiction, Patrick T. Brown, philosophy, popular fiction, René Girard, The Free Press, thick desire, thin desire

We are social creatures, meant to be together. That means social pressure is real and can be intense. Source

18Nov 2023 by Post

Mimetic Behavior in the Scientific Community

Alfred Wegener, Anthony Fauci, arXiv, Budapest, CDC, childbed fever, Continental Drift, Evolution, firefighters, geologists, government, Ignaz Semmelweis, insane asylum, Medicine, mental health, microbes, mimesis, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, nurses, Pangaea, philosophers, police, propaganda, René Girard, transit workers, Vaccines

Sometimes the suppression comes from the government. The restriction on doctors' freedom to use promising treatments during the pandemic was unprecedented. Source

17Nov 2023 by Post

I Just Want to Say One Word to You: Graphene

aluminum, Ariel Malik, Avadain, batteries, Bradley Larschan, cement, COSM 2023, Dustin Hoffman, electric vehicles, electronics, entrepreneurs, George Gilder, graphene, James Tour, Kevin Wyss, Medicine, mice, modernity, Nobel Prize, Physics, Earth & Space, plastics, Rice University, spinal cord, technological applications, The Graduate

Graphene was first characterized in 2004 when two researchers took graphite and exfoliated individual sheets of graphene using scotch tape. Source

17Nov 2023 by Post

Faith Examined | with Professor Clark Bates

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Podcast: Play in new window Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Email | TuneIn | RSS This show will bless you if you have ever supported CrossExamined.org (and even if you haven’t). Just two weeks ago at the Unshaken conference in Nashville, TN, Frank was both shocked and honored to learn that a group of graduates from the CrossExamined Instructor Academy (CIA) began a book project back in 2019 called, ‘Faith Examined: New Arguments for Persistent Questions, Essays in Honor of Dr. Frank Turek’. The first copy of that book was given to Frank that night! In this week’s podcast episode, Frank interviews the book’s editor, Professor and New Testament scholar, Clark Bates, who spearheaded the project. During their conversation, Frank and Clark answer questions like: How did a festschrift in honor of CrossExamined…

17Nov 2023 by Post

Bill Dembski Reflects on the Origins of a Classic

academia, Darwinists, Education, Evolution, freedom, ID The Future, intelligence, Intelligent Design, mathematicians, philosophy, Podcast, randomness, Technology, The Blind Watchmaker, The Design Inference, William Dembski, William Paley

Twenty-five years later, Dembski’s arguments stand firm, and a second edition with fresh analysis and insight is now available to a new generation. Source

15Nov 2023 by Post

James Tour and Lee Cronin to Discuss Origin of Life at Harvard Roundtable

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Props to Professor Lee Cronin for agreeing to participate. Wish you could be a fly on the wall? Here's good news. Source

15Nov 2023 by Post

Why Free Will Denial Is Self-Refuting

action potentials, Alain Aspect, Anton Zeilinger, atheists, brain states, cellular metabolism, chance, Chemistry, Culture & Ethics, determinism, Evidence, fluid dynamics, free will, government, Jerry Coyne, John Clauser, John Stewart Bell, Justice, logic, Love, marriage, meat robot, molecules, morality, neurochemistry, neuroscience, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, relationships, spilled ink, truth

The only "scientific" basis for the denial of free will is determinism, the theory that every change in nature is determined prior to its occurrence. Source

14Nov 2023 by Post

Are Christian Politicians Trying to Set Up a Theocracy? – Part 2

AFR, Apologetics, app, CIA, cross examined, cross examined official podcast, Dan Hodges, faith, God, google play, iTunes, Jesus Christ, Joel Kramer, 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 Do evangelical Christians hold political views that are “wildly extreme”? If the sanctity of human life and the institution of marriage being solely between one man and one woman are extreme, then the answer is a resounding yes! Jihadist terrorism on the other hand? Not so much. Since when did defending basic human rights, freedom of religion, and free speech become extreme? Furthermore, why is the left so hesitant to condemn such heinous acts against humanity, even as those acts continue to threaten western civilization as we know it? In this midweek podcast episode, Frank continues the discussion on attorney Marci A. Hamilton’s hit piece that accused House…

13Nov 2023 by Post

Epigenetics: Performing the Genome

cadenza, central dogma, coda, Current Biology, diet, DNA, EMBO Reports, environment, epigenetics, Evolution, exercise, Frank Gannon, Frankenstein, genome, Intelligent Design, John Innes Centre, Life Sciences, lifestyle, low oxygen, mental habits, middle C, mind, mood, mutations, pianist, piano, RNA, Serengeti, tempo, University of Georgia, Van Cliburn, Vladimir Horowitz, zebra, zebra finch, zebrafish

Epigenetics is surpassing genetics in distinction, just as the pianist gets the applause and not the piano. Source

13Nov 2023 by Post

Is Your Church a Personality Cult? Part 1

celebrity culture, church growth movement, Culture CrossExamined, exploitation, idolatry, intelligentchristianfaith.com, John Ferrer, leadership, narcissism, personality cult, practical theology, theology

Sometimes cults are easy to spot. Most everyone knows about the Jim Jones cult (People’s Temple), or David Koresh’s group in Waco, Texas (Branch Davidians). Those cults are easy to spot because doomsday theology and mass killing tend to make headlines. But some cults aren’t so easy to see. Personality cults can be hard to spot. When people call a religious group a “cult” it usually means one of two things. TWO TYPES OF CULTSType 1: Theological Cult – heretical theology deviating from core orthodox teachings of that religion. These cults spring from a parent-religion. Ex., Mormonism and Jehovah’s Witnesses are cult offshoots of Christianity. Type 2: Sociological Cult – socially and psychologically dangerous practices like authoritarian and manipulative leadership, social isolation, abuse, threats, blackmail, “mind-control” etc. These may or may…