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07Jun 2021 by Post

The Brain Prosperity Gospel: Can “Neurotheology” Be Real Science?

Andrew Newberg, anthropology, brain, brain imaging, compassion, correlates, fMRI, infused contemplation, materialism, Medicine, mystical union, neurology, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, neurotheology, Prayer, psychology, spiritual experience

Neurotheology is likely to become just another materialist fad in which the human rational and spiritual soul is reduced to evolved meat. Source

20May 2021 by Post

Stephen Meyer: The Evidence “Cries Out” for God, Not the Other Way Around

Apologetics, Atheism, biology, BreakPoint, cosmology, Down syndrome, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, James Tour, John Stonestreet, materialism, mistakes, New Atheists, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, scientific evidence, Stephen Meyer, theism, unborn children, utilitarianism, William Dembski

I have heard ID dismissed as “apologetics,” with the implication of proponents in search of evidence to support a conclusion to which they're pre-committed. Source

23Apr 2021 by Post

God Hypothesis in the Elitist’s Eye

astrology, Carl Trueman, elites, elitists, evolutionary theory, Faith & Science, intelligentsia, Ivy League, materialism, New York Times, religion, Return of the God Hypothesis, Ross Douthat, secularists, Stephen Meyer, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self

The secularist is right to feel uncomfortable as he mouths a theistic creed. Theists, for their part, should respect this reluctance. Source

02Apr 2021 by Post

As Church Membership Slumps Ominously, Time for a Return of the God Hypothesis

agnostics, Bill Nye, Brian Josephson, Christianity, Christians, Christopher Hitchens, church membership, Daniel Dennett, Discovery Institute, Eastern, Faith & Science, Gallup, HarperOne, Intelligent Design, Jews, Lawrence Krauss, materialism, Nobel Prize, Philosophy of Science, polling data, religious belief, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Federalist, Victor Stenger

"Americans' membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup's eight-decade trend." Source

13Mar 2021 by Post

Stephen Meyer and J. P. Moreland Take on Theistic Evolution and Materialism

Crossway, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, J.P. Moreland, logic, materialism, philosophers, philosophy, science, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution

They also answer logical challenges directed at intelligent design theory and highlight crucial problems with thinking that science thrives best on its own. Source

18Feb 2021 by Post

James Tour Samples Primordial Soup: Watch Episode 2 on Abiogenesis Now

chemists, Discovery Institute Press, early Earth, Evolution, Intelligent Design, James Tour, life, materialism, non-life, origin of life, primordial soup, Rice University, The Mystery of Life’s Origin

"Goundwork is still being laid, as Dr. Tour explains the early Earth primordial soup concept and enlightens the listener on the layperson's understanding." Source

13Feb 2021 by Post

Charles Darwin in Light of Black History Month

African Americans, Alfred Russel Wallace, Black History Month, Charles Darwin, Culture & Ethics, Darwinism, Darwinists, eugenics, Europeans, Evolution, Francis Galton, ID The Future, indigenous races, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, Martin Luther King Jr., materialism, scientific racism, sterilization, theology, Victorian England

Was Darwin’s racism purely a function of his time and place, Victorian England? Historian Michael Flannery says no. Source

01Feb 2021 by Post

Jonathan Witt: A Cosmos Charged with Meaning, Purpose — and Genius

artistry, Benjamin Wiker, carbon, fine-tuning, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, InterVarsity Press, Jonathan Witt, materialism, Phillip Johnson, physics, Reductionism, scientific enterprise

The late Phillip Johnson called Dr. Witt's book from InterVarsity Press “a wise and witty romp through the fallacies of reductionism.” Source

05Jan 2021 by Post

Can Natural Reward Theory Save Natural Selection?

alleles, animals, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, cotton, Darwinian theory, ecosystems, Evolution, foresight, fossil record, John Rust, Macroevolution, materialism, molecular machines, Monopoly, natural selection, Owen M. Gilbert, oxygen, pseudoscience, Rethinking Ecology, selection pressure, teleology, The Origin of Species, Thomas Malthus, University of Texas

An evolutionist dismantles natural selection, then tries to rescue it with his own theory. It won’t work. Source

24Oct 2020 by Post

In Biological Origins, Bottom-Up or Top-Down Causation?

bottom-up, causation, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, materialism, Michael Denton, origins science, Podcast, Privileged Species, Reductionism, top-down

Michael Denton says that the evidence has been growing for top-down causation, which poses a challenge to reductionist and materialistic origins science. Source

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