Meyer in the Jerusalem Post: Farewell to the Purposeless Cosmos

Africans, atheists, causal circularity, Charles Murray, computer code, DNA, Douglas Murray, faith, Faith & Science, First Cause, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jerusalem Post, Jordan Peterson, molecular machines, New Atheists, New New Atheists, Phil Torres, Privileged Planet, Return of the God Hypothesis, South Africa, Stephen Meyer, Steven Weinberg, supernatural, Tom Holland
From living in South Africa for more than four years, I got a good sense of African perspectives on atheism. Source
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Jordan Peterson Discovers the God Hypothesis

Canadians, Carl Jung, Charles Darwin, collective unconscious, combinatorial problem, Dan Tawfik, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, David Klinghoffer, Douglas Axe, Douglas Murray, epicycles, Faith & Science, God Hypothesis, H. Allen Orr, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Van Maren, Jordan Peterson, Lawrence Krauss, materialism, naturalism, neo-Darwinists, New New Atheists, Niall Ferguson, protein folding, Ptolemy, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Tom Holland, Weizmann Institute
It’s refreshing to see such intellectual humility from a figure with Peterson’s status. But not all his followers were thrilled. Source
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God Hypothesis: The Problem of Background Knowledge

Bayesian reasoning, breadcrumbs, car break-in, Charles Lyell, Charles Sanders Peirce, Croatia, Croatians, Delta variant, Faith & Science, Fran Lebowitz, God Hypothesis, Hansel and Gretel, inference to the best explanation, Intelligent Design, James Croft, Lydia McGrew, masks, Michael Scriven, philosophers, puppy, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Substack, Thomas Crisp
The wet-washcloth sensation of puppy tongue on baby cheeks is part of the baby’s evidence that Puppy exists. Source
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Jordan Peterson Springs the Trap of Scientism

Andrew Copson, beauty, Carl Jung, competence, Faith & Science, history of ideas, Holocaust, hydrogen, hydrogen bomb, Intelligent Design, Johannes Kepler, John Lennox, Jordan Peterson, Lawrence Krauss, leprosy, Michael Shermer, myths, Oxford Union, physicists, psychology, religion, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sam Harris, scientific method, scientific revolution, scientism, Stephen Meyer
There’s a gaping God-shaped hole in both Krauss and Peterson’s particular ways of spinning all this. Source
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Jordan Peterson, Lawrence Krauss, and the God Hypothesis

Atheism, Beyond Order, Big Bang, Faith & Science, God Hypothesis, Jordan Peterson, Lawrence Krauss, Macbeth, metaphysics, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, psychology, religion, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Santa Claus, scientists, secular humanism, Stephen Meyer, supernatural, universe
Stephen Meyer opens his new book with a memorable anecdote about debating Krauss live while battling a fierce migraine. Source
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Did Religion Evolve, or Was It Designed, to Foster Cooperation?

Aboriginal Australians, Agricultural Revolution, Catholics, Crusades, dead ends, designer, Faith & Science, Fiction, group cohesion, hospital, Human Origins, Jesus, myths, religion, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, selfish genes, shared beliefs, strangers, unguided evolution, Yuval Noah Harari
Harari’s assurance about building group cohesion is simplistic and woefully insufficient to account for common characteristics of religion. Source
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Confronting Joshua Swamidass on Confrontation

Book of Job, computational biologists, confrontation, Conversation, Creation, Crossway, dialogue, eagle, evolutionary theory, Faith & Science, Günter Bechly, hawk, Intelligent Design, Joshua Swamidass, paleontologists, theistic evolution, Theistic Evolution (book), Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed, Washington University
Swamidass got it wrong, and it’s perfectly appropriate for me to confront him on that. I wasn’t talking about any approach to human argumentation at all. Source
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Meet the New New Atheists, Not Like the Old New Atheists

agnostics, Apologetics, atheists, Ben Shapiro, Brian Keating, Charles Murray, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, civilization, Convivium, Darwinian theory, Dennis Prager, Douglas Murray, Esther O'Reilly, Faith & Science, God Is Not Great, James Croft, Jews, John West, Jonathon Van Maren, Jordan Peterson, Judaism, Justin Brierley, Michael Medved, Michael Shermer, New Atheists, New New Atheists, Niall Ferguson, Orthodox Jews, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roger Scruton, Stephen Meyer, Tom Holland, Unbelievable?, william lane craig
These atheists are finding the “Darwinian tower” less to their liking, and are laying down their bow and arrow. Source
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