Big Think,
biological information,
category error,
consciousness,
contortionist,
cosmos,
Dallas Conference on Science & Faith,
dark matter,
Denyse O'Leary,
Evolution News,
gas,
information,
Intelligent Design,
John Archibald Wheeler,
liquid,
Mass,
mass-energy,
materialism,
Melvin Vopson,
Mind Matters,
natural world,
origin of life,
Philip Berry,
physics,
Physics, Earth & Space,
plasma,
Robert J. Marks,
solid,
The Mystery Life’s Origin,
University of Portsmouth,
Ur-text,
William Dembski
Materialism drives its adherents into twists of logic, in line with remarks that Robert J. Marks made over the past weekend at the Dallas Conference on Science & Faith. Marks was introducing one of the authors of the newly expanded 1984 intelligent design “Ur-text,” The Mystery Life’s Origin. As Evolution News summarized, “His comments included the observation that as a theist, Dr. Marks is grateful to have all possible scientific explanations of the natural world, including intelligent design, available to him whereas atheists and materialists have that option arbitrarily foreclosed to them.” Whether on the origin of life, of biological information, or of the cosmos itself, how far these contortionists have been compelled to go is indicated in a fascinating post by Denyse O’Leary at Mind Matters. Dark matter is the unknown…