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26Oct 2021 by Post

Do We Live on a Privileged Planet?

astronomy, atmosphere, beauty, chemical elements, Doppler effect, helium, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Jay W. Richards, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Mars, Mercury, Moon, Physics, Earth & Space, rainbows, René Descartes, solar eclipse, spectroscope, stars, sun, telescope, The Privileged Planet, Titan, universe, Venus, water, William Huggins, William Hyde Wollaston

Yes, rainbows are beautiful, but are they good for anything? Indeed, they have been very important for science. Source

22Oct 2021 by Post

Forbidden Question: Common Descent or Common Design?

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Cadillac, cars, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, chromosome 2, common ancestor, common features, Elon Musk, Evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary tree, Francis Collins, fusion event, Genome Research, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, historical sciences, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, Matti Leisola, Science and Human Origins, Stephen Meyer, Tesla, University of Cambridge

Think of cars. A Tesla and a Cadillac share many features — but of course, none of that means that Teslas blindly evolved from Cadillacs, or vice versa. Source

22Oct 2021 by Post

Life: Fearfully and Wonderfully Fine-Tuned

biology, Daniel Díaz, Discovery Institute, entropy, fine-tuning, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Mind Matters News, Ola Hössjer, population genetics, probability theory, Robert J. Marks II, Stockholm University, University of Miami, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence

At the center of the discussion are three technical papers, each co-authored by one or more of the three members of the podcast discussion. Source

21Oct 2021 by Post

Stephen Meyer, Eric Metaxas: Are Atheists Gaslighting Us?

atheists, Directed panspermia, Eric Metaxas, gaslighting, Intelligent Design, Is Atheism Dead?, multiverse, Physics, Earth & Space, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientific atheism, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, Steven Weinberg, The Eric Metaxas Radio Show

Metaxas gently chides Dr. Meyer for his graciousness to opponents in the world of scientific atheism. Source

19Oct 2021 by Post

Attempt to Explain Away the Beginning of the Universe Fails to Distinguish Imagination from Reality

Alan Guth, Big Bang, Bruno Valeixo Bento, causal set, causal set cosmology, cosmology, entropy, Ethan Siegel, Flatiron Institute, gravitational contraction, Intelligent Design, NASA, oscillating model, Paul Sutter, Physics, Earth & Space, Planck length, Pluto, Stav Zalel, Stephen Meyer, Stony Brook University, universe

Here I will address another desperate attempt to avoid a cosmic beginning, this one by astrophysicist Paul Sutter. Source

18Oct 2021 by Post

The Tragedy of Francis Collins’s Model for Science-Faith Integration

abortion, Bible, Casey Luskin, China, Christianity, Christianity Today, Culture & Ethics, Darwin Day in America, Darwinian evolution, Downs syndrome, Ed Stetzer, ENCODE, Evangelical Christians, Francis Collins, gain-of-function research, George W. Bush, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Witt, Junk DNA, Karl Giberson, Kenneth Miller, Mark Galli, Medicine, Michael Behe, Michael Carome, National Institutes of Health, Obama Administration, pastores, premature babies, professors, pundists, Science (journal), The Language of God, The New England Journal of Medicine, University of Alabama-Birmingham, vaccination

The depiction of Francis Collins as someone who has developed a good model for integrating faith and science is in many respects a tragic myth. Source

16Oct 2021 by Post

Critics Respond to Stephen Meyer’s New Book (Without Mentioning Him by Name)

Alan Guth, Alexander Vilenkin, Arvind Borde, BGV, Bible, Big Bang, Christianity, CMBR, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmic microwave background radiation, cosmology, critics, Ethan Siegel, Evolution, Harry Potter, inflationary theory, Intelligent Design, Judaism, Physics, Earth & Space, Return of the God Hypothesis, Singularity, Stephen Meyer, universe, Voldemort

The critics, including Ethan Siegel, appear to see Meyer much like Voldemort in the Harry Potter series. Source

15Oct 2021 by Post

Studies on Stickleback Fish Further Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation

biology, cichlid fish, constrained variation, Evolution, evolutionary icons, fatty acids, Freshwater, genetics, Intelligent Design, natural genetic engineering, phenotypic plasticity, prickly sculpin, saltwater, scientific materialism, stickleback fish

Cichlid and stickleback fish are two of the most iconic examples of adaption that biologists present as evidence for the plausibility of evolutionary processes. Source

14Oct 2021 by Post