Taking the Side of Science — But Which Side?

Carl Sagan, common sense, consciousness, demons, Divine Foot, eliminative materialism, Faith & Science, immaterial reality, Intelligent Design, material world, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, Philosophy of Science, Richard C. Lewontin, split-brain patients, superstition, The Demon-Haunted World, The Immortal Mind, The New York Review of Books, universe
In writing that science’s materialism is absolute, Richard Lewontin wrote as one who did not grasp the fatal flaw in his absolutism. Source
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Jay Richards on an Icon of Intelligent Design and 20 Years of a Bifurcating Culture

Allan CP, Aristotle, astronomy, atheists, bifurcation, Children, Christian civilization, Christians, civilization, Emma Camp, Evangelicals, Faith & Science, gender ideology, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, materialists, New Atheism, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Reason (magazine), Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholicism, Socrates, surgical sexual mutilation, The Privileged Planet, The Science Dilemma, theism, theists, tradcath, wokeness
If wokeness leads to promoting surgical sexual mutilation of children, maybe we need to rethink the whole thing. Source
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Dilley: How Evolutionary Atheists Employ Homemade Theology

Allan CP, atheists, biology textbooks, Charles Darwin, Evolution, evolutionists, Faith & Science, faith and science, Jerry Coyne, Reasoning, religious tradition, Richard Dawkins, science, scientific reasoning, Stephen Dilley, textbooks, The Science Dilemma, theology
That is no way to reason about science. Yet many biology textbooks, in explaining evolution, do the same thing, perpetuating an error that goes back to Darwin. Source
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Homelessness, Intelligent Design, and the Unseen Realm

1 percent myth, accountability, Annual Homeless Assessment Report, brain, Bruce Chapman, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, chimps, Culture, Denyse O'Leary, Donald Trump, Evolution, evolutionists, Executive Order, Faith & Science, Federal Government, Fix Homelessness, healing, homelessness, housing first, humans, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Choe, journalism, Michael Egnor, Michael Levin, Michael Medved, mind, near-death experiences, Plato's Revenge, public policy, recovery, Richard Sternberg, soul, The Immortal Mind, The Varieties of Religious Experience, treatment, William James
Compared with previous approaches, the new Executive Order reflects a fundamentally different picture of reality. What should we call it? Source
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The Challenge to Darwinism from Camp Mystic

bacteria, bioethics, Camp Mystic, campers, counsellors, Darwinism, David Bentley Hart, evil, Evolution, Faith & Science, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Good, Gottfried Leibnitz, group selection, innocent suffering, Ivan Karamazov, kin selection, Lisbon earthquake, mourning, natural selection, PZ Myers, reciprocal altruism, summer camp, The Doors of the Sea, theodicy, Voltaire
One of the most tragic events I can remember happened this July 4th — a flash flood killed nearly 200 people, 27 of whom were children and staff at Camp Mystic. Source
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A Disagreement with Shermer on the Ethics of IVF

bioethics, chattel slaves, Children, Christian bioethics, Christof Koch, conception, Denyse O'Leary, Faith & Science, human beings, in vitro fertilization, industrial manufacture, IVF, Medicine, Michael Shermer, organ donors, persons, Piers Morgan, Roman Catholicism, sexual slaves, Skeptic (podcast), soldiers, The Immortal Mind
It is quite possible to seek good ends (children) by bad means (their industrial manufacture). These are very real concerns. Source
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Remembering Walter Bradley: A Trailblazer in Intelligent Design with a Legacy to Inspire

Apologetics, Baylor University, Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Christianity, coconuts, CRU, Dignity Coconuts, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, Engineering, Faith & Science, For a Greater Purpose, Gospel of John, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, poverty, slavery, Stephen Meyer, Texas A&M University, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley
It is with deep reverence that I learned of the passing of my hero. Walter was a man of extraordinary intellect, boundless compassion, and unwavering faith. Source
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More on Disguised Religion

atheists, biology, causation, Danni Askini, disguised religion, doctors, dogma, Faith & Science, faith and science, Intelligent Design, medication, methodological naturalism, natural, npr, philosophy, Philosophy of Science, reality, religion, religious language, religious terms, Seattle, supernatural, surgery, theistic evolutionists, trans identity
Not in science or in any other context does one faith get to impose its terms on others. Source
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The Very “Nature of the Universe” Puzzles Physicists

Aaron Zimmer, Battle of the Big Bang, Big Bang, black hole, conundrums, designed universe, Elie Feder, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, mind, multiverse, Niayesh Afshordi, Paul Sutter, Phil Halper, physicists, physics, quantum particles, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Singularity, Stony Brook University, string theory, uncertainty, universe
The more physicists know about the universe, the larger loom some questions about ultimate realities. Source
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Behe, Meyer, and Lennox: Evidence for Design Is Growing

academia, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Faith & Science, faith and science, Fiesole, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, intelligent designer, intentional design, Italy, John Lennox, mathematics, Michael Behe, Peter Robinson, physical world, Podcast, science, scientific method, Stephen Meyer, Uncommon Knowledge, universe
Peter Robinson sits down with Michael Behe, John Lennox, and Stephen Meyer, three leading voices in science on the case for an intelligent designer. Source
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