Slaying Leviathan Conference: John West on C. S. Lewis, Scientocracy, and More

C. R. Wiley, C.S. Lewis, Central Connecticut State University, Christianity, Culture, Darwin Day in America, Discovery Institute, Evangelical Reformed Church, faith, Faith & Science, Glenn S. Sunshine, history, Human Zoos, John West, Politics, Privileged Species, Revolutionary, Rich Hamlin, scientocracy, Tacoma, The Magician’s Twin, The Politics of Revelation and Reason, Theology Pugcast, Walt Disney and Live Action
On Saturday in Tacoma, he will also discuss what we can learn about the relationship between faith and politics from American history in the 1800s. Source
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West: Theistic Evolution and the Gnostic Heresy

biology, Christianity, Creation, Culture, demiurge, Discovery Institute, Early Church, Evolution, Faith & Science, gnosticism, God and Evolution, Gospel of John, history, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, John West, Judaism, Lucretius, Mandaeism, materialists, Richard Dawkins, Talmud, theism, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith
Friendliness to a design perspective might seem to be natural for any theist. Yet a prickly disdain is strangely common, especially among religious academics. Source
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Italian Center on Intelligent Design Holds Launch Event

Austria, Bechly, Carlo Alberto Cossano, Center for Biocomplexity and Natural Teleology, Center for Science & Culture, Cesare Lombroso, Charles Darwin, COVID-19, criminals, Discovery Institute, Dissent from Darwinism, Events, Evolution, Ferdinando Catalano, Galileo Galilei, Giuseppe Sermonti, Human Zoos, Intelligent Design, Italy, John West, Kingdom of Italy, Marco Respinti, philosophers, scientists, theologians, Turin, University of Molise, University of Padua, YouTube videos
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?”

"God of the gaps", Catholicism, Christianity, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, dark energy, dark matter, ether, Faith & Science, Galileo Galilei, Hebrew Bible, Isaac Newton, John West, mathematics, Neil deGrasse Tyson, neo-Platonism, philosophy, Physics, Earth & Space, Reformation, Renaissance, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, theism
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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C. S. Lewis Unmasks the Pretensions of SETI

Arecibo Message, Arecibo telescope, Argument from Reason, Artificial Intelligence, Beacon in the Galaxy, Cambridge University, chess, computer games, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, intelligent ETs, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, John West, Jonathan Jiang, Martin Rees, Matthew Sparkes, Messaging Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, METI, Physics, Earth & Space, Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, SETI, Stephanie Pappas, Stephen Hawking, The Magician’s Twin, Voyager Golden Records, Voyager spacecraft
How can METI / SETI advocates repudiate intelligent design while depending on the design inference for their work? Source
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Event Report: Design and the Designer

biology, Biomimetics, COVID-19, Daniel Reeves, design triangulation, Emily Reeves, Eric Metaxas, faith, Faith & Science, history of science, human foot, intellectuals, Intelligent Design, International Space Station, John West, Michael Keas, Olympics, Philadelphia, Physics, Earth & Space, Return of the God Hypothesis, Socrates in the City, Stephen Meyer, Stuart Burgess, Systems Biology, theology, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith
There were 16 different talks, ranging from the history of science and faith to more technical topics like systems biology and design triangulation. Source
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