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07Mar 2024 by Post

Up from Dawkins: Summer Seminars Were a Turning Point for Me

academics, alumni, biology, Center for Science and Culture, Colorado Springs, Discovery Institute, Education, Engineering, Evolution, evolutionary, Glen Eyrie Castle, Human Errors, Intelligent Design, mathematical biology, misinformation, molecular biology, Nathan Lents, paleontology, population genetics, professionals, researchers, Richard Dawkins, scientific enterprise, scientists, students, Summer Seminars, The Blind Watchmaker, Unlocking the Mystery of Life

I wanted to determine whether I was, as Richard Dawkins asserted, an accident of nature. Or was I created by God? Source

06Mar 2024 by Post

Are Proponents of ID Religiously Motivated, and Does It Matter?

Ann Gauger, Big Bang, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Christianity, cosmology, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, Education, environmental fitness, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, intrinsic plausibility, Ireland, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John Danaher, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, microbiology, motives, Phillip Johnson, prior probability, probability theory, Stephen Meyer, Steve Fuller, teach the controversy, theistic religion, University of Galway, William Dembski

If Danaher wants to scrutinize the religious motives of ID proponents, we have to consider what such a line of attack would do to evolution. Source

26Feb 2024 by Post

You’re Invited! Get the Total Solar Eclipse Experience, April 7-8, in Waxahachie, TX

astrobiologists, astronomical occurrences, birds, Center for Science and Culture, conferences, cosmos, Dallas–Fort Worth, Discovery Institute, Events, fine-tuning, football field, gridlock traffic, Guillermo Gonzalez, hotels, insects, Intelligent Design, Jay W. Richards, North America, Physics, Earth & Space, planets, registration, scientific discovery, sky, solar eclipses, Southwestern Assemblies of God University, stars, sunset, temperature, Texas, The Privileged Planet, total solar eclipse, totality, universe, Waxahachie

Beyond the sensory experience lies something even more astonishing — a cosmological coincidence of metaphysical significance to human existence. Source

18Jan 2024 by Post

Peer Review May Be Beyond Reform

abortions, academic literature, Campbell’s Law, Carole Hooven, conflict of interest, Culture & Ethics, Cynthia Hudson Vitale, DEI, Discovery Institute, disinformation, Donald T. Campbell, evolutionary biologists, Fertility, Frontiers in Psychology, Goodhart’s Law, Harvard University, Laszlo Bencze, Leslie D. McIntosh, mental health, Mind Matters News, paleontology, peer reviewers, pregnancy, pro-life, retraction, Robert J. Marks, Walter Bradley Center

Harvard is going to have quite a job convincing the world that it is still serious about reality-based thinking, never mind peer review. Source

06Jan 2024 by Post

Stephen Meyer: Scientific Arguments for a Theistic Worldview

Discovery Institute, Doug Monroe, Epistemology, Faith & Science, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Martin Johnson Heade, materialism, morality, philosophy, Podcast, Praxis Circle, relativism, Stephen Meyer, theism, Worldview

Are there strong scientific arguments for theism? Is there such a thing as objective morality? Source

20Dec 2023 by Post

The Rocks Cry Out — Looking Back on My Year

Center for Science and Culture, Christmas, colleagues, Colorado Springs, conference center, corporate world, Creativity, Discovery Institute, Faith & Science, innovation, Intelligent Design, leadership, Meaning, purpose, rocks, scholarship, scientists, Seattle, students, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design

We enjoyed our staff Christmas lunch yesterday at Ivar’s in downtown Seattle and a number of colleagues spoke movingly. Source

19Dec 2023 by Post

Brian Miller on the Gift of Vision

Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, Discovery Institute, Engineering, Engineering Research Group, Evolution, fine-tuning, human vision, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, laws of nature, Podcast, unguided processes, vertebrate eye, vision

Our eyes are easy to take for granted! Yet, the more we dig into this amazingly intricate system, the more thankful we become for them. Source

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

08Nov 2023 by Post

Ray Kurzweil Predicts: The “Singularity” by 2045

Academy Award, AI enlightenment myth, Artificial Intelligence, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bible, computer scientists, COSM 2023, cultoftheai.com, Culture & Ethics, Discovery Institute, ethics, futurists, Google, Hamas, hellscape, Isaiah, Judeo-Christian tradition, kidnapping, killing, Michael Keas, morality, Neuroscience & Mind, Ray Kurzweil, Seattle, Singularity, Skynet, The Imitation Game, The Matrix, transhumanism, Turing test

Under Kurzweil’s transhumanist vision of the future, AI promises us superhuman capabilities complete with heaven on earth and eternal life Source

11Sep 2023 by Post

Kepler’s Pursuit of a Mathematical Cosmology

Andrew McDiarmid, astronomy, Center for Science and Culture, Colorado Christian University, cosmology, Discovery Institute, Faith & Science, Harmonices Mundi, ID The Future, Johannes Kepler, mathematics, Melissa Cain Travis, Mysterium Cosmographicum, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Podcast, science history, theology, Thinking God’s Thoughts, Tycho Brahe

Dr. Travis tracks the progression of Kepler’s ideas to show how he became a key figure in the transition from ancient astronomy to a true celestial physics. Source

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