Aboard the Lifeboat — or Cruise Ship — of Intelligent Design

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It takes persistence to remain on board. Not everyone is cut out for the life of a maligned academic. Source
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Maturing Toward God: Update from Charles Murray

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Why there is something rather than nothing is the question posed in our video, "Proof of God in 3 Minutes," about the law of conservation of matter and energy. Source
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Life Without Purpose — The Fundamental Flaw

Alan Watts, Aristotle, biology, biomolecules, Charles Darwin, CHNOPS, embryogenesis, emergence, Etienne Gilson, Evolution, From Aristotle to Darwin and Back Again, function, Galileo Galilei, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, life, Life Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus, origin of life, parts, primordial soup, science of purpose, structure, telos, The Book, Thomas Aquinas, whole, Zen masters
The fundamental flaw in the conventional approach to understanding life is that we think we can fully understand the whole by looking at the individual parts. Source
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UFOs Replay History: Rogan, Keating, and “Things Seen in the Skies”

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Psychologist Carl Jung got interested in UFOs around 1946, shortly after the development of the atom bomb. Source
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Italian Center on Intelligent Design Holds Launch Event

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The city of Turin was an especially fitting place for the public launch of a group focusing on intelligent design. Source
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Stephen Meyer Takes Questions, Including: “Has Science Matured Past Its Christian Origins?”

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Granted that the early scientists were Christians, does it follow that science necessarily supports Christianity or any form of theism? Source
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John Bloom on the Match that Lit the Scientific Revolution

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Babylonians and Greeks contributed some discoveries and insights that would eventually play into the rise of science. Source
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Brian Keating: Getting Nervous About “Follow the Science”

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These are EXCELLENT. I would say the themes of all three have to do with the importance of not worshipping scientists or imagining that science is infallible. Source
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Zombie History — Using Galileo to Whack Intelligent Design

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A useful myth is hard to put down. The Galileo myth gives a premiere illustration. Ever since John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White fostered the “warfare thesis” of “science vs religion” in the late 19th century, appealing to the Galileo affair as the example par excellence, historians have had little luck convincing the scientific establishment that their version of the Galileo story is flawed. Fortunately, we have the new book by Michael Keas to help set the story straight: Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion. Keas traces the development of the warfare thesis through the 19th century. Despite being largely discredited by historians, the warfare thesis lives on into our time. For instance, Mario Livio has a new book out, Galileo and the…
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