Evolution – Page 47 – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

02Jul 2023 by Post

PBS, Darwin, and Dover: An Interview with Phillip Johnson

Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Darwin on Trial, Discovery Institute, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Judge John E. Jones, Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial., Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, NOVA, PBS, Phillip Johnson, UC Berkeley

Johnson was one of the only intelligent design proponents interviewed for and included in PBS’s science series NOVA in an episode about the Dover case. Source

30Jun 2023 by Post

On the Irreducible Complexity of Sperm Cells

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Human reproduction is perhaps the quintessential example of teleology in biology. Source

28Jun 2023 by Post

Nancy Pearcey: How Darwinism Fueled a “Toxic War on Masculinity”

Andrew McDiarmid, Culture, Culture & Ethics, Darwinism, ethics, Evolution, Houston Christian University, ID The Future, Industrial Revolution, males, masculinity, Nancy Pearcey, Podcast, Secularism, The Toxic War on Masculinity, toxic masculinity, virtuous masculinity

Tune in for the stimulating discussion and to hear what Pearcey offers as an antidote to the war on virtuous masculinity. Source

27Jun 2023 by Post

“What Is a Man?” — New Book Out Today from Nancy Pearcey

animal nature, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, Culture & Ethics, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, divine image, European customs, Evolution, evolutionary psychology, Fiction, human beings, males, masculinity, men, Nancy Pearcey, Sean McDowell, Tarzan, The Toxic War on Masculinity, women

Set aside one question of the moment — “What is a woman?” — and turn to another no less important problem that troubles our culture. Source

26Jun 2023 by Post

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Bacterial Flagella

bacterial flagellum, braking system, bushing, bushings, cell membrane, clutch, Dave Farina, David Snoke, drive shaft, Evolution, flagellar synthesis, FleQ, Intelligent Design, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, machine, machinery, Michael Behe, microorganisms, mutation rate, natural selection, nitrogen metabolism, NtrC, outboard motor, point mutations, population size, Professor Dave, protein science, proteins, Pseudomonas fluorescens, terminology, The Scientist, Theoretical Population Biology, twitching motility, type IV pilis, universal joint, YouTubers

The video complains about Behe’s “usage of terminology pertaining to machinery.” Is Farina going to charge the entire flagella community with dishonesty? Source

24Jun 2023 by Post

How to Discuss Intelligent Design with Friends

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There is so much misinformation about the theory of ID that many well-intended people reject not the actual theory but a silly caricature, a straw man. Source

20Jun 2023 by Post

Replacing Chemistry with Purpose

Bertrand Russell, biology, biomolecules, chemical reactions, Chemistry, Evolution, form, function, Intelligent Design, life, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, observation, organic molecules, organisms, paradigm, random mutation, science of purpose, structure, theory, urea, vitalism

The core argument of neo-Darwinism is, simply, that evolution, and life on Earth, are the result of random, aka, purposeless chemical reactions. Source

19Jun 2023 by Post

Good as Gould? Ask a Chimp

apes, bananas, biology, cages, Canadian goose, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, cooking, curiosity, Evolution, Harvard University, human exceptionalism, human mind, Human Origins, humans, lice, music, Stephen Jay Gould, Western culture

No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Source

16Jun 2023 by Post

What Do We Know about the Origin of Rhinos?

African elephant, African savanna, biology, Ceratotherium simum, DNA, Donald R. Prothero, Evolution, fossil record, Intelligent Design, Microevolution, mutations, Niles Eldredge, rhinoceroses, Rhinocerotidae, rhinocerotids, Rhinocerotoidea, Stephen Jay Gould, superfamily, Teletaceras, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Although they are not the handsomest or most graceful creatures in the animal kingdom, the Rhinocerotoidea (superfamily) are a fascinating group for research. Source

15Jun 2023 by Post

Defining Science, and Discussing Stephen Meyer’s God Hypothesis, on Twitter

Amazon, Christianity, cosmology, Dave Farina, empiricism, Energy, Evolution, faith and science, history, humility, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, logic, matter, Philosophy of Science, realism, reason, Return of the God Hypothesis, Robert Boyle, Stephen Meyer, TBN, theists, Twitter, William Dembski

"God is a hypothesis. What Dr. Meyer does is evaluate that hypothesis against the latest scientific evidence of the last century." Source

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