Faith, Reason, and the Search for Truth: Stephen Meyer and Michael Shermer

Brian Keating, Bryan Callen, complex life, consciousness, Energy, Faith & Science, faith and science, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, mathematics, matter, Michael Shermer, mind, origin of life, Podcast, Skeptic Magazine, skepticism, Stephen Meyer, The Bryan Callen Show, truth, UC San Diego, universe
Dr. Meyer calls math mind-independent. We discover it, we don’t invent it. And it’s conceptual, not a physical material thing. Why is that Important? Source
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Darwin, Kinsey, and Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

Alfred Kinsey, Bible, Charles Darwin, Culture, Culture & Ethics, deviants, ethics, Faith & Science, Floyd Martinson, Harvard University, junk science, males, mammals, morality, pimps, prisoners, prostitutes, psychopaths, secularists, sex, sex offenders, sexual abuse, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Stockholm Syndrome Christian, The Descent of Man, United States, Victorian England, zoologists
Perhaps the figure most responsible for the breakdown of traditional sexual ethics in Western culture was a Harvard-trained evolutionary zoologist. Source
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How Stockholm Syndrome Christianity Hinders Scientific Progress

Bible, BioLogos Foundation, Charles Darwin, debate, disagreement, Evangelical Christians, Evolution, Faith & Science, faith and science, Francis Collins, free speech, ID The Future, ideology, John West, Podcast, scientific enterprise, scientific materialism, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, The Language of God, theistic evolution, theology, United States
In a nutshell, theistic evolution is the attempt to reconcile belief in God with the standard evolutionary account of life’s origins. Source
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The Slippery Slope of Theistic Darwinism: The Sad Cases of Howard Van Till and Karl Giberson

Bible, BioLogos Foundation, Calvin College, childhood, Christianity, Discovery Institute Press, Eastern Nazarene University, Evangelical Christians, Evolution, Faith & Science, faith and science, Francis Collins, Howard Van Till, Intelligent Design, physical universe, Saving Darwin, Saving the Original Sinner, secular elites, slippery slope, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, Stockholm Syndrome Christians, theism, theistic Darwinism, Unitarian Universalist Association
After retiring from Calvin, Howard Van Till evolved well beyond Christianity. Indeed, he eventually evolved beyond theism. Source
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One Week from Today! 2025 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith

All Creatures Great & Small, body plans, Casey Luskin, Dallas Conference on Science & Faith, Daniel Reeves, Discovery Institute, Emily Reeves, eric hedin, Events, Faith & Science, George Montañez, habitat, honeybees, Intelligent Design, John West, Metamorphosis, Michael Egnor, music, Paul Nelson, Ray Bohlin, Richard Sternberg, science and faith, Stephen Dilley, Stephen Meyer
From the smallest honeybee to the greatest whale, planet Earth is swarming with creatures of all shapes and sizes — each designed for their habitat. Source
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Georges Lemaȋtre’s Hidden God

Albert Einstein, Big Bang, Catholic priests, Christianity for Doubters, Creation, Discovery Institute Press, Evolution, Evolution News, Faith & Science, Georges Lemaȋtre, improvements, intelligent beings, Intelligent Design, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Melissa Wehmann Sewell, mistakes, natural causes, Nature (journal), physics, Physics, Earth & Space, planning, Supreme Being, Technology, testing, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, theology, universe
Was Lemaȋtre, who certainly believed in God, suggesting that God deliberately hides himself from us, or just acknowledging the paradox? Source
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Here’s the Other Common Objection to Intelligent Design — Answered

adaptations, Armin Moczek, automobile lineages, automobiles, bats, BIO-Complexity, biology, cars, convergence, creator, dependency graph, dolphins, echolocation, Evolution, Evolution News, Faith & Science, Field Museum of Natural History, genes, George Gaylord Simpson, history of life, humans, improvements, Indiana University, Intelligent Design, life, magic wand, New York Times, PDE2D, physics, planning, software, Technology, testing, The Guardian, The Mathematical Intelligencer, theology, unintelligent process, Why Evolution Is Different, Winston Ewert
If you asked me, “Do you believe in evolution?” I would reply “I believe in the evolution of life, and the evolution of automobiles." Source
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The Multiverse Has a Measure Problem

Aaron Zimmer, atoms, Bible, Boltzmann brain, Donald Trump, Dragons, Elie Feder, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, life, measure problem, molecules, naïve multiverse, observers, physical constants, physical laws, physics, Physics to God, Physics, Earth & Space, planets, quantum fluctuations, rivers, Roger Penrose, stars, Taylor Swift, universe
In terms of science, the central problem with the naïve multiverse is that it could explain any observation, so it really explains nothing. Source
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