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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

11Mar 2021 by Post

In the Name of “Academic Freedom,” a Scientist Calls for Punishing Creationists

academic freedom, accrediting agency, atheists, Ball State University, BDS movement, Big Tech, Canceled Science, censorship, China, Christian colleges, computational biology, creation science, creationism, customers, East Coast, employers, equality, eric hedin, free speech, freedom, freedom from religion foundation, Giant Food, Intelligent Design, invidious labeling, Israel, Jerry Coyne, Joshua Swamidass, Justice, lockdown, othering, Punishment, Race, racial indoctrination, religion, reward, scientists, social credit, supermarkets, The Boundaries of Science, viewpoint, Wall Street Journal, Washington University

The practice has a sordid history. There’s always a rationale — for example, in labeling Israeli businesses, or those doing business with Israel, to be avoided. Source

06Mar 2021 by Post

Michael Ruse on Purpose: A Conflicted Response

Anthroposophical Society, atheists, C.S. Lewis, Evolution, Faith & Science, frenemy, George Bernard Shaw, history, Israel Zwangwill, Michael Ruse, On Purpose, Owen Barfield, panpsychism, philosophers, Philosophy of Science, religion

Whatever else might be said of Ruse and his work, like all his books this one is worth having on the shelf. Source

04Mar 2021 by Post

Michael Ruse: Darwin’s Hedgehog Searches for Purpose

Aristotle, Evolution, Faith & Science, flies, hedgehog, Immanuel Kant, Isaiah Berlin, Königsberg, Michael Ruse, neo-Darwinian theory, ointment, On Purpose, philosophy, Plato, religion, The Darwinian Revolution, The Philosophy of Biology

For Ruse, “Darwin is like Moses” who “led his children [himself among them] to the Promised Land but never got there himself.” Source

05Feb 2021 by Post

Misconceptions about Misconceptions: Examining a Citation of My Work

apes, Casey Luskin, Evolution, Evolution: Education and Outreach, Homo (genus), Human Origins, information, intelligence, Intelligent Design, National Center for Science Education, Neo-Darwinism, paleoanthropologists, religion, Stephen Meyer

The citation is to one of my earliest writings on the topic of human origins, an article I published in an old ID journal. Source

14Jan 2021 by Post

Atheist Christopher Hitchens: Best Evidence for Intelligent Design?

Atheism, atheists, Big Bang, Christopher Hitchens, cosmic fine-tuning, Denyse O'Leary, fanaticism, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, physical existence, Physics, Earth & Space, religion, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, universe

Following Denyse O’Leary, I referred earlier to the curious but, on reflection, not surprising messy nature of the “magic” numbers that rule our universe. Source

11Nov 2020 by Post

From Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking in Three Catastrophic Steps

Against the Tide, Atheism, Discovery Institute, Faith & Science, Isaac Newton, John Lennox, Kevin Sorbo, logic, mathematicians, Oxford University, religion, scientific explanation, scientists, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, theism

Nothing is more poisonous, for the young and the old alike, than the perception that the smart money is all on atheism. Of course, it’s not. Source

27Oct 2020 by Post

When Scientists Make Truth Claims Outside Science

Alexander Oparin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Baden Powell, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, clockmaker, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, creator, David Hume, Erasmus Darwin, Evolution, evolutionists, Francisco Ayala, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Isaac Newton, John Ray, Joseph Le Conte, Kenneth Miller, mosquitos, religion, Robert Chambers, scientists, Stephen Jay Gould, theology, Thomas Burnet, universe

Here is a small, representative sampling of such claims over the past three centuries. These claims are not from science, but they drive science. Source

16Oct 2020 by Post

A Darwinist Recognizes (Some of) the Stakes in the Intelligent Design Debate

Alex Rosenberg, Areo, Atheism, Darwinism, divine image, equality, eugenics, Evolution, evolution debate, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, human dignity, Human Zoos, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Intelligent Design, Jamie Milton Freestone, John West, Michael Behe, neo-Nazis, neo-Nazism, nihilism, non-overlapping magisteria, pseudoscientific racism, Racism, religion, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, scientific racism, skin color, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, University of Queensland, vitalism

I would be curious to hear how Darwinists like Dr. Freestone reconcile their evolutionism not just with religion but with their commitment to human equality. Source

14Oct 2020 by Post

When “Science” Becomes a Cult

abortion, Bill Nye, biology, cult, dogma, double-talk, Douglas Axe, embryology, empirical science, Environmentalism, experimentation, Faith & Science, falsification, human rights, humanities, ideology, John Zmirak, Jonathan Wells, Marquis de Sade, materialistic philosophy, materialistic science, Moses, Nature (journal), nature rights, New Atheism, Pharaoh, political science, Politics, religion, sex, Simone de Beauvoir, The Stream, trust, Twitter, Wesley Smith

The problem comes when, in order to win our acceptance, double-talk is used to pretend that a cult is something other than what it is. Source

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