Meaning – Page 2 – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

22Feb 2024 by Post

Reply to Free Will Deniers: Show Me

auto accident, behavior, Belief, brains, Chemistry, choice, Clarence Darrow, Culture & Ethics, Darwinian evolution, deterministic free will, faith, free will, free will deniers, ham sandwich, human beings, Jerry Coyne, LARPing, Ludwig Wittgenstein, materialists, Meaning, Neuroscience & Mind, parking lot, philosophers, physics, physiology, Politics, rain, Robert Sapolsky, Sam Harris, Stephen Cave, The Blue Book

If you carelessly dent a genuine free will denier’s car in a parking lot, he wouldn’t hold you responsible any more than he’d hold your car responsible. Source

20Dec 2023 by Post

The Rocks Cry Out — Looking Back on My Year

Center for Science and Culture, Christmas, colleagues, Colorado Springs, conference center, corporate world, Creativity, Discovery Institute, Faith & Science, innovation, Intelligent Design, leadership, Meaning, purpose, rocks, scholarship, scientists, Seattle, students, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design

We enjoyed our staff Christmas lunch yesterday at Ivar’s in downtown Seattle and a number of colleagues spoke movingly. Source

07Oct 2023 by Post

A “Prepared Mind” for Alfred Russel Wallace

"survival of the fittest", A. P. Mead, Alfred Russel Wallace, At the Edge of History, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, Evolution, Intelligent Design, intelligent evolution, liberals, Loren Eiseley, Louis Pasteur, M. R. A. Chance, Meaning, natural selection, Pithecanthropus, purpose, The World of Life, William Irwin Thompson

Although Wallace receded into the deep recesses of my memory, I had what Pasteur called “the prepared mind.” Source

20Aug 2023 by Post

A Theoretical Biologist’s Mission Impossible: Banish Teleology While Retaining Meaning

academic politics, Chemistry, consciousness, Darwinian evolution, DNA, Evolution, genes, genetic code, information, Intelligent Design, Marcello Barbieri, materialism, Meaning, natural selection, paradigm, physics, private truth, public truth, teleology, University of Ferrara

The nonsense will cease eventually. But eventually is a long way off, if Barbieri’s dilemma is any guide. Source

09Aug 2023 by Post

The Problem of Pain: Julian Huxley, Magnus Carlsen, and the Meaning of Life

Atheism, atheists, Charles Darwin, chess, chessboard, Evolution, Faith & Science, fossils, Intelligent Design, Julian Huxley, Lex Fridman, Magnus Carlsen, Meaning, meaning of life, meaninglessness, Norway, origin of life, Origin of Species, pain, paleontologists, religion, Thomas Henry Huxley, University of Chicago

In a conversation with Lex Fridman, Magnus Carlsen betrays no sense of empathy for how his view that life is an accident might negatively impact others. Source

06Jun 2023 by Post

A Living and Symphonic Order — Appreciating Anthony Esolen

Anthony Esolen, beauty, Book of Wisdom, creator, Culture & Ethics, Dante Alighieri, Darwinism, Divine Comedy, Faith & Science, Genesis, God's Grandeur, infinities, infinity, Intelligent Design, Jackson Pollock, Johann Sebastian Bach, mathematics, Meaning, music, painting, Peter Kreeft, poetry, randomness, Roman Catholicism, science, scripture, splendor, symphony, universe

I knew I wanted to choose someone who wrote beautifully. He, however, was someone I didn't know, and I could not predict his views on intelligent design. Source

28Apr 2023 by Post

Why Mathematics and Literature Point to Intelligent Design

algebra, Arthur Conan Doyle, Blood Meridian, Books, C.S. Lewis, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Cormac McCarthy, Culture & Ethics, Fiction, fractal structure, geometry, Herman Melville, Intelligent Design, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Joyce, Jurassic Park, Leo Tolstoy, literature, mathematicians, mathematics, Meaning, Michael Crichton, Moby-Dick, New York Times, Once Upon a Prime, order, Sarah Hart, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Stella Maris, The Passenger, The Road

In an era where un-design is celebrated, a mathematician shows that structure and order are inherent in both literature and the universe. Source

19Dec 2022 by Post

Let’s Thank the Scientists Who Uplift Us

biologists, Center for Science & Culture, Culture, Discovery Institute, Evolution, Evolution News, government, Intelligent Design, materialism, Meaning, poets, purpose, readers, scholars, science, scientists, taxpayers, universe

Many scientists, receiving vast support from taxpayers, are content with busying themselves in sifting dry technical details. Source

31Jul 2021 by Post

Michael Behe on Meaning Detection in Language, and More

A Mousetrap for Darwin, Aristotle, autopoiesis, biological machines, co-option, epigenetics, Intelligent Design, Jim Madden, Kenneth Miller, language, Meaning, Michael Behe, mousetraps, Pat Flynn, philosophers, Systems Biology, Thomas Aquinas, tie clips

Intelligent design pioneer Michael Behe continues his conversation with philosophers Pat Flynn and Jim Madden. Source

31Mar 2021 by Post

Meyer, Keating: Why Was the Object of Creation So Long in Coming? And Other Good Questions

agnostics, Big Bang, Brian Keating, cosmological models, cosmology, Creation, Human Origins, humans, Intelligent Design, Judaism, Losing the Nobel Prize, Meaning, Messiah, physicists, Physics, Earth & Space, Podcast, purpose, rationality, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, U.C. San Diego, Young Earth Creationists

I listened in the car on my way to and from a funeral. Obviously, the end of life, like its beginning, is an occasion for pondering ultimate questions. Source

Category: Meaning