Moving Intelligent Design Forward: A Seminar to Remember

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Graduates won’t be alone. A bonus for Seminar grads is the opportunity to be connected with a mentor who will help them navigate the hostile environment ahead. Source
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Science and Beauty: The Lens of Triperspectivalism

aesthetic criteria, Albert Einstein, Anthony O’Hear, Artemis II, Arthur Eddington, beauty, Brian Greene, coherence, controversy, disinterested, Earthset, empirical fit, existential, Faith & Science, fauna, fittingness, flora, fruitfulness, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, John Frame, Mare Orientale, mathematical beauty, Michael Keas, Milky Way, Moon, Nobel Prize, normative, oughtness, philosophers, pleasure, Science and Beauty (series), scientific theories, Serge Brunier, situational, solar eclipse, Steven Weinberg, subatomic particles, The Elegant Universe, The Evidential Power of Beauty, The Privileged Planet, theoretical virtues, Thomas Dubay, triperspectivalism
To the non-scientist, it may come as a surprise that scientists would appeal to aesthetic standards in evaluating the validity of scientific theories. Source
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God Would Not Create Things That Way? Nature Alone Could Not

Charles Darwin, Chicago, chimps, Christianity for Doubters, common design, consciousness, DNA, echolocation, elementary particles, Evolution, Faith & Science, Field Museum of Natural History, fossil skulls, Genesis, George Gaylord Simpson, history of life, humans, Intelligent Design, modern humans, nature, New York Times News Service, nuclear power plants, Origin of Species, paleontologists, paleontology, physics, primates, Smart Phones, supercomputers, Technology, Why Evolution Is Different
Why does God remain backstage, hidden from view, working behind the scenes while we act out our parts in the human drama? Source
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Found: A Robust Basis for Science-Faith Synthesis

Catholics, Creation or Evolution? A Catholic Dilemma, Darwinian evolution, Evolution, evolutionary paradigm, Faith & Science, Father Michael Chaberek, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, logic, modern science, origin of life, philosophy, Podcast, science-faith synthesis, scientific evidence, Steve Greene, Thomas Aquinas, universe
The many scientific shortcomings of the evolutionary account force us to confront some logical and philosophical challenges. Source
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Sweeping Europe, a Pagan Religion Has Daggers Out for This Technology

air conditioning, Associated Press, atonement, carbon emissions, China, Christianity, deaths, Europe, extreme heat, Faith & Science, forgiveness, global warning, guilt, heat wave, Love, monkeys, monotheism, pagan religions, Punishment, red warnings, religion, Sarah Salviander, secular religion, self-preservation, supernatural, Technology, The Story of Everything
A religion that sees humans as merely “an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet” would consider these unnecessary deaths hardly worth noticing. Source
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Young Benjamin Franklin: The Goodness of Nature’s Design

A Great Awakening, Angel Studios, Benjamin Franklin, creator, Declaration of Independence, Dominic Sandbrook, endowed by our creator, Faith & Science, Founding Fathers, George Whitefield, infant mortality, Intelligent Design, Jesus, John Adams, John West, Lazarus, providence, Resurrection, Sight & Sound, theistic evolutionists, theology, Tom Holland, Whittaker Chambers, William Paley, Witness, Young Washington
Franklin is famous for his aphorisms and science experiments, but fewer people know he also had a keen interest in theology. Source
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On Our 250th Anniversary, There Is a Battle for America’s Soul

apes, bacteria, Bertrand Russell, Bible, California, carbon, Center for Science and Culture, chauvinism, consciousness, Declaration of Human Rights, Declaration of Independence, DNA, dolphins, endowed by our creator, Faith & Science, human rights, Intelligent Design, John Lilly, John West, language, legal protection, Legal Science (jurisprudence), Leon Kass, moral crisis, Science (journal), solar system, Thomas Jukes, United Nations, United States, Yale University, zoo, __featured3
While some researchers have "personified" their apes, others have mechanized their concept of man. Source
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Celebrate America 250 — With the Science of the American Founding

barbecues, Benjamin Franklin, Christians, Constitutional Convention, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Declaration of Independence, deists, Discovery Institute, endowed by our creator, EndowedbyOurCreator.com, Faith & Science, family, fireworks, friends, government, Intelligent Design, James Madison, John West, July 4, Kerby Anderson, political debates, political science, Stephen Meyer, survey, The Federalist Papers, theists, U.S. Constitution
If you are really short on time, all these themes are compressed into in an effective image, above, that you can click on, read, and share through social media. Source
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Are Our Rights Blessed by God, or Begrudged by Government?

Bible, Center for Science and Culture, Declaration of Independence, democracy, dignitas, divine image, endowed by our creator, ethics, Faith & Science, faith and science, gas chambers, gulags, Harold J. Berman, Harvard Law School, human rights, Intelligent Design, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, Latin, United States
In the Western tradition human rights have been said to exist independently of the state because they have been based upon human dignity. Source
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