29Jan 2025 by Post

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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24Jan 2025 by Post

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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06Jan 2025 by Post

Recovering the Right Brain in a Scientistic Culture

Artificial Intelligence, Atheism, beauty, brain, Culture, Culture & Ethics, faith, Faith & Science, human experience, Ian McGilchrist, Intelligent Design, left brain, Living in Wonder, Matthew Crawford, Meaning, New Atheism, Paul Kingsnorth, Peter Savodnik, right brain, Rod Dreher, scientism, secular culture, Technology, The Free Press, The World Beyond Your Head
Science and technology were hailed as the saviors of mankind, but instead, they’ve helped to push out crucial aspects of the human experience.  Source
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26Dec 2024 by Post

Sorry, Dr. Coyne: There Is No Religion-Science Conflict

al-Khwarizmi, algebra, algorithm, Charles Darwin, Evangelical Christianity, Faith & Science, Grand Unified Theory, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Issac Newton, James Ferguson, Jan Spitzer, Jerry Coyne, Jesus, Journal of Molecular Evolution, Matías Cabello, Michael Behe, Nicolaus Copernicus, religion, revolutionibus, Theory of Everything, Why Evolution Is True
I dare say that Michael Behe has had a far greater influence on the field of evolutionary biology than Jerry Coyne has. Source
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25Dec 2024 by Post

Merry Christmas! No. 8 Story of 2024: Reagan’s Personal Argument for Intelligent Design

An American Life, arms control, atheists, birds’ eggs, birthday, butterflies, Capitalism, Christianity, Douglas Brinkley, evil empire, Faith & Science, faith and science, Galesburg, General Secretary, Greeks, Illinois, Intelligent Design, Jews, Jimmy Carter, Kremlin, Lessons My Father Taught Me, Mars, Michael Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Moscow, Moslems, National Prayer Breakfast, notetaker, Otangelo Grasso, Paul Kengor, political freedom, Protestants, Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, Red Square, Romans, Ron Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Russian Orthodox Church, Soviet Union, St. Catherine’s Hall, The Notes, The Reagan Diaries, U.S. Constitution, Ukrainian Catholics, Whittaker Chambers, Witness
An untold story from the final year of Reagan’s Presidency about science, faith, and intelligent design. Source
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16Dec 2024 by Post

Intelligent Design and Aquinas’ Fifth Way

analogy, Aquinas’ Fifth Way, Bernard Carr, black widow, Catholic philosophy, Catholics, DNA, evangelical Protestants, Faith & Science, genetic mutations, god-of-the-gaps fallacy, gospels, information, intelligent agents, Intelligent Design, intentions, Jesus, John Paul II, Michael Chaberek, molecular biology, natural selection, philosophy, praying mantis, sparrows, specified complexity, Summa Theologiae, Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas did not have examples of specified complexity as in molecular biology, but it is possible to find a text that suggests he would favor of ID. Source
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09Dec 2024 by Post

Natural Selection: The God that Failed

Alfred North Whitehead, Apostle Paul, Catholic Church, Christians, Darwinian paradigm, Darwinism, earthquakes, Europe, Evolution, Faith & Science, faith and science, god-of-the-gaps fallacy, Greek philosophers, Human Origins, human soul, intelligent agent, Intelligent Design, John Lennox, lightning, New Testament, Nobel laureates, non-coding, Poseidon, pre-Socratics, Robert Laughlin, Scriptures, thunder, Zeus
The god-of-the-gaps objection does have some merit to it, but it does not rule out ID. The progress of science has dethroned a multitude of false gods. Source
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03Dec 2024 by Post

On Giving Tuesday, Feelings Are Not Enough

atheists, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, Conversion, depression, Discovery Institute Press, emotion, Evolution News, Faith & Science, faith and science, Father Martin Hilbert, Feelings, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, John West, Jonathan McLatchie, Muslims, new york, Richard Dawkins, self-hatred, Somalia, Stephen Meyer, suicide, William Dembski
Here was a believer, a very thoughtful one, who knew nothing about whether the God hypothesis can be defended on objective grounds. Source
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