09Dec 2023 by Post

Against the Tide: John Lennox and Stephen Meyer

academia, Against the Tide, Atheism, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Christianity, Culture & Ethics, Faith & Science, ID The Future, John Lennox, materialism, mathematicians, naturalism, New Atheism, Northern Ireland, Oxford University, Peter Atkins, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, scientific atheism, Stephen Meyer
Can one person push back against the strong currents of atheism, materialism, and naturalism so evident in academia and the public square today? Source
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18Nov 2023 by Post

Mimetic Behavior in the Scientific Community

Alfred Wegener, Anthony Fauci, arXiv, Budapest, CDC, childbed fever, Continental Drift, Evolution, firefighters, geologists, government, Ignaz Semmelweis, insane asylum, Medicine, mental health, microbes, mimesis, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, nurses, Pangaea, philosophers, police, propaganda, René Girard, transit workers, Vaccines
Sometimes the suppression comes from the government. The restriction on doctors' freedom to use promising treatments during the pandemic was unprecedented. Source
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08Sep 2023 by Post

In Debate on Intelligent Design, Critic Cites Dragon Legend to Justify Evolution’s Failures

bacterial flagellum, debates, dinosaur bones, Dragon, English, Evolution, Fundacja En Arche, Holocaust, Intelligent Design, Kraków, Malgorzata Moczydlowska-Vidal, Michael Behe, Michael Ruse, micropaleontology, philosophers, Poland, Polish, pseudoscience, Richard Sternberg, scientists, Silesia, Smok wawelski, Sweden, Uppsala University, virgins, Vladimir Putin, Wawel Castle, Wawel Dragon
It is, as Professor Behe acknowledges, a charming tale, but not very relevant as far as the details of the scientific debate go. Source
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28Aug 2023 by Post

The Return of Natural Theology

Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, chemicals, Energy, entropy, evolutionary theory, Faith & Science, God's Grandeur, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, materialism, materialists, multiverse, natural processes, natural theology, order, origin of life, Pat Flynn, philosophers, Philosophy for the People, Podcast, reason
Influenced by a long line of materialist thinkers, Charles Darwin proposed the mechanism of natural selection as a substitute for God. Source
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08Jun 2023 by Post

Listen: In a New Book, David Berlinski Gives the Devil His Due

Andrew McDiarmid, Chinese Revolution, Darwinism, David Berlinski, Evolution, ID The Future, intellectuals, Intelligent Design, Marcel Schützenberger, materialistic science, mathematicians, mathematics, Paris, philosophers, Podcast, Science After Babel, Tower of Babel, Wistar Symposium
Berlinski is at his best as he discusses everything from the Tower of Babel as a metaphor for modern science, to his friendship with Marcel Schützenberger. Source
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09Feb 2023 by Post

Meyer, Craig, Turek: Examining the Kalam Cosmological Argument

afterword, Big Bang, cosmology, Faith & Science, Frank Turek, Intelligent Design, Islam, Islamic philosophy, Kalam, layman, logic, metaphysics, paperback, philosophers, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, Stephen Meyer, theologians, universe, william lane craig, Young Earth Creationism
Kalam is a reference to ideas in medieval Islamic philosophy that William Lane Craig singlehandedly did much to revive. Source
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19Sep 2022 by Post

Behe Answers Best Objections to Irreducible Complexity

Alvin Plantinga, bacterial flagellum, biology, blind evolution, blood clotting cascade, Darwin's Black Box, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex systems, Lehigh University, molecular machines, Pat Flynn, philosophers, Philosophy for the People, Podcast, science
Following the philosopher Alvin Plantinga, Pat Flynn says that some of the attacks on Behe have been hysterical, but some have been more thoughtful. Source
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21Jun 2022 by Post

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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