26Oct 2024 by Post

Soul Survives Death? ER Doc Faces Skepticism

Baram Elahi, brain function, cardiac arrest, clinical death, Closer to Truth, consciousness, death, doctors, Faith & Science, John Eccles, Lord Kelvin, Lucid Dying, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, Nobel Prize, physics, post-death consciousness, Psyche, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Sam Parnia, skepticism, soul
In discussion with Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Dr. Sam Parnia stuck to his clearly defined evidence, avoiding religious digressions. Source
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06Sep 2024 by Post

Robin Collins’s “Fine-Tuning for Discoverability” Argument

anthropic fine-tuning, cosmology, Creation, creator, discernable-discoverability-optimality range, entropy, fine structure constant, fine-tuning, fine-tuning for discoverability, initial conditions, Intelligent Design, John Templeton Foundation, Messiah College, particle physics, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Robin Collins, signal, The Privileged Planet, Two Dozen (or So) Arguments for God, Yale University
In November 2000 we each presented at the “Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe” symposium at Yale University. Source
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05Sep 2024 by Post

Atheist on the Ropes: Piers Morgan Confronts Richard Dawkins About ID and Stephen Meyer

Atheism, Big Bang, cathedrals, Christmas carols, coder, cosmology, cultural Christian, DNA, faith, Faith & Science, God Hypothesis, Intelligent Design, mental health, physicists, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Piers Morgan, psychiatrists, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, theism, young people
There’s something wonderful about watching Dawkins being compelled to watch Stephen Meyer and then being obliged to respond. Source
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16Aug 2024 by Post

Three Ways to Formulate the Fine-Tuning Argument: An Introduction

Aaron Zimmer, atheistic scientists, atoms, electromagnetism, electrons, Elie Feder, elimination, fine-tuning, fundamental particles, galaxies, gravitational force, gravity, intelligent cause, Intelligent Design, life, Luke Barnes, Mass, matter, molecules, multiverse, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, planets, probabilities, Robin Collins, stars, universe, william lane craig
At the heart of fundamental physics are the laws of nature. These laws govern the interactions between fundamental particles. Source
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17Jul 2024 by Post

The Magician’s Twin: A Conversation with Stephen Meyer, James Orr, and David Berlinski

C.S. Lewis, Cambridge University, causation, coding, David Berlinski, Faith & Science, Godlessness of the Gaps, Hoover Institution, information, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, James Orr, John West, laws of nature, materialism, mathematics, nature, Newton’s Gift, Peter Robinson, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Repentance, Richard Dawkins, Stanford University, Stephen Meyer, The Magician’s Twin, universe
Citing C. S. Lewis, Dr. Meyer calls the drama of materialism’s unravelling a kind “repentance.” Source
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09Jul 2024 by Post

Earth Left “A Path of Tools” to Scientific Discovery

Anthropic Principle, biology, cell's, devolution, earth, Evolution, Fire-Maker, fossil record, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan Witt, Michael Denton, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, scientific discovery, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, The Privileged Planet
The fine-tunings for scientific discovery and technological progress are very interesting to me and not just because they defeat the anthropic principle. Source
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22Jun 2024 by Post

What’s Next in the Search for Habitable Worlds?

astronomy, Bijan Nemati, coronagraph, cosmology, earth, Eric Anderson, Exoplanets, Habitable Worlds Observatory, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, NASA, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Podcast, Roman Space Telescope, space dust, star shade technology, Technology
Are we common or rare? You can be on either side of the question and still be excited about the search for habitable planets capable of harboring life. Source
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31May 2024 by Post

The Big Bang Simplified

Albert Einstein, astronomy, Big Bang, big squeeze, calculus, Discovery Institute Press, earth, General Theory of Relativity, Georges Lemaȋtre, gravitational attraction, gravitational theory, In the Beginning, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Jean-Pierre Luminet, mathematics, Nicolaus Copernicus, Nobel Prize, philosophy, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, special theory of relativity, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, universe
Since very few people understand Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, for most of us the Big Bang seems very mysterious and counterintuitive. Source
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01May 2024 by Post

Another Call for a “New Synthesis”

biology, Casey Luskin, cooperative effects, Darwinism, Denis Noble, dissidents, epigenetic inheritance, Evolution, Extended Synthesis, genetic change, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, Lamarckian evolution, New Synthesis, origin of life, panspermia, Peter Corning, physics, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, purposiveness, retroactive admission of ignorance, selective pressures, symbiosis, synergism hypothesis, synergistic selection, synergy, teleonomy, The Selfish Gene, unguided evolution, Wikipedia
I recently wrote a post critical of biologist Peter Corning’s “synergism hypothesis.” Afterwards Dr. Corning got in touch. Source
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