01Dec 2024 by Post

A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design

A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design, Adam and Eve, Brian Miller, Catholics, creation myth, Darwinian paradigm, Evolution, Faith & Science, faith and science, Father Martin Hilbert, history, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, life, philosophy, science, Secularism, theology, universe
For too long now, Catholic scholars and many of the faithful have felt compelled to align themselves with a Darwinian account of life’s origins. Source
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31Oct 2024 by Post

What Science Owes to Faith, Hope, and Love

beauty, Edwin Chargaff, empirical data, empiricism, Evolution, explanatory scope, Faith & Science, faith and science, germ theory, John Williams Draper, knowing, Paul Dirac, philosophy, physical world, predictiveness, scientific theories, scientism, Secularism, Steven Weinberg, testability, truth, Warfare Myth, water
It's a stretch to say that our ability to do realist science arose from a mindless process of evolution. Source
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23Oct 2024 by Post

Richard Dawkins, the Unlikely Evangelist

Alister McGrath, Anikó Albert, Ard Louis, Ashley Lande, Christianity, Coming to Faith Through Dawkins, Denis Alexander, Evolution, Faith & Science, faith and science, Johan Erasmus, Joshua Pauling, Judaism, Michael Ruse, National Academies of Science, New Atheism, Sam Harris, Schadenfreude, Scott Alexander, Sy Garte
As a recent book of essays demonstrates, the once much-vaunted new atheism spurred many thinking people to become Christians. Source
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24Sep 2024 by Post

In Our World, Multiple Levels of Intelligent Design

animals, atheists, beehive, biochemistry, bird’s nest, Canceled Science, Christianity, classroom, clouds, dumb luck, eric hedin, Faith & Science, faith and science, functionality, George MacDonald, Grand Canyon, human race, Intelligent Design, laws of nature, leaves, Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, rain, Robert Falconer, spiders's web, Taj Mahal
We find higher genres of design that cannot be explained by appealing to the actions of natural forces and laws of nature. Source
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05Jun 2024 by Post

Ann Gauger on EWTN, and Intelligent Design’s Universality

agnostics, Ann Gauger, atheists, Catholic Church, David Berlinski, Enigmatic, Faith & Science, faith and science, Fr. Mitch Pacwa, God's Grandeur, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, Jews, kinesin, molecular machines, Muslims, Philip Ball, proteins, Protestants, Robert Shedinger, Thomas Nagel, Will Herberg
I find this openness and lack of dogmatism uplifting, and an indicator that ID is trying to follow the evidence. Source
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12Apr 2024 by Post

Mind, Matter, and Intelligent Design

agency, Albert Einstein, Angels, atoms, brain injury, brains, building, C.S. Lewis, cell-assembly location, Energy, Faith & Science, faith and science, home, human beings, immaterial mind, Intelligent Design, intelligent designer, laws of nature, life, light, miracles, origin of life, oscillations, singing, spirit, substance, universe
Let’s extend our speculations about the nature of spirit and its interactive ability with this material universe to considerations on the origin of life. Source
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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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06Feb 2024 by Post

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

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President Reagan wrung a startling spiritual concession from his Communist counterpart — with an argument for intelligent design. Source
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