02Apr 2024 by Post

My Dinner with Steven and Louise Weinberg

Atheism, atheists, attorney, Austin, Baylor University, Christianity, Faith & Science, faith and science, Intelligent Design, Jesus, Law, law professor, Louise Weinberg, naturalism, Nobel Prize, Phillip E. Johnson, physicists, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, scripture, Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes, The Nature of Nature, theism, theists, University of Texas, Waco
Weinberg was holding court, going on about how much he knew about the origin of the universe and how atheism was the only intellectually viable option. Source
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21Mar 2024 by Post

A Philosopher Investigates Near-Death Experiences

atheists, brain, Bruce Greyson, cancel culture, cardiac patients, death, dementia, dissertation, dying, Gary Habermas, imminent death, Kristle Merzlock, Mark Shelvock, medical interventions, Medicine, Minding the Brain, Monika Mandoki, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, philosophers, Psychology Today, Research, terminal lucidity, University of Western Ontario
Monika Mandoki did not experience efforts to get her canceled. That may be for several reasons. Source
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06Feb 2024 by Post

On Ronald Reagan’s Birthday, Let’s Appreciate His Debt — and Ours — to Intelligent Design

An American Life, atheists, butterflies, Christians, Communism, cook, Dana Rohrabacher, Faith & Science, faith and science, Galesburg, gourmet meal, Greeks, Illinois, Intelligent Design, Jews, Jimmy Carter, John West, Mikhail Gorbachev, Moscow Summit, National Prayer Breakfast, order, Paul Johnson, purposefulness, Return of the God Hypothesis, Romans, Ronald Reagan, sculptor, sculpture, Soviet Union, Stephen Meyer, United States, Whittaker Chambers, Witness (book)
President Reagan wrung a startling spiritual concession from his Communist counterpart — with an argument for intelligent design. Source
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15Jan 2024 by Post

Fooled by Darwinism: A Scholar’s Cautionary Tale

ancient Greeks, Antony Flew, atheists, Bertrand Russell, crypto-animism, Darwinian materialism, Evolution, fatalism, geneticists, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, John Updike, Middle Ages, natural selection, Neil Thomas, paganism, paleontologists, Podcast, poetry, Richard Dawkins, skepticism, Taking Leave of Darwin, theistic humanism
Neil Thomas links the posturing of atheists Richard Dawkins and Bertrand Russell with the fatalism of poetry stretching back to the Middle Ages, and further. Source
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10Jan 2024 by Post

Gödel’s Defense of the Immortality of the Soul

After Death, Alexander T. Englert, Angel Studios, atheists, box office, Charles Armitage Brown, Faith & Science, human beings, immortality, Institute for Advanced Study, John Hick, John Keats, Kurt Gödel, Marianne Gödel, materialists, mathematics, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, ontological proof, personal development, philosophy, relationships, Thomas Aquinas
Gödel (1906–1978) is best known for destroying the materialist atheist hope that mathematics could be self-consistent without any external origin. Source
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31Dec 2023 by Post

No. 2 Story of 2023: Intelligent Design Passes the Dawkins Test

atheists, biology, Brian Miller, Caroline Parins-Fukuchia, Cédric Blais, common ancestry, discordance, Dominik Schrempf, Evolution, evolutionary genomics, genus, Gergely Szöllősi, Gonzalo Giribet, Gregory W. Stull, intelligent agents, Intelligent Design, John M. Archibald, Juli Berwald, Michael DeGiorgio, Nature (journal), Nature Ecology & Evolution, phylogenetic studies, phylogenomics, phylogeny, pseudogenes, Queen Mary University of London, Rasmus Nielsen, Richard Buggs, Richard Dawkins, Richard H. Adams, Science and Faith in Dialogue, species, Stephen A. Smith, The Greatest Show on Earth, Todd A. Castoe, Tree of Life, UC Berkeley
After it passed his challenge, will atheist evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins now embrace the theory of intelligent design? Source
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27Dec 2023 by Post

No. 6 Story of 2023: On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris

atheists, Being as Communion, Belief, brain, ChatGPT4, consciousness, Culture & Ethics, decision-making, determinism, free choice, free will, illusion, irony, Judgment, mind, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, Persuasion, reality, Reasoning, Sam Harris, The Design Inference, Winston Ewert, YouTube videos
Yes, the irony here is palpable, and I’ve long been critical of Harris’s view of free will as an illusion. Source
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10Dec 2023 by Post

John Lennox: Against the Tide of Atheism

Against the Tide, atheists, Communism, Culture & Ethics, Eastern Europe, Faith & Science, faith and science, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Judeo-Christian tradition, mathematicians, Oxford University, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, scientists, Soviet Union, Stephen Meyer, Worldview
Dr. Lennox talks about discovering the damage atheism does to people, by seeing it firsthand in Communist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Source
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