05Apr 2024 by Post

Gould’s God-Talk: Is the Panda’s Thumb Incompatible with ID?

Charles Darwin, creationism, devolution, Earth’s Catastrophic Past, Evolution, Faith & Science, harmony, Intelligent Design, John Calvin, Louis Agassiz, Natural Theology (book), panda, Panda's Thumb, Peter Van Inwagen, proportion, Religions (journal), St. Paul, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, symmetry, theology, thumb, William Dembski, William Paley, Young Earth Creationists
Stephen Jay Gould was renowned as a paleontologist, not as a theologian. Yet perhaps his most iconic argument is theological in nature.  Source
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04Apr 2024 by Post

Is the Panda’s Thumb Suboptimal?

adaptationism, carnivores, common ancestry, computed topography, dexterity, digits, economy, efficiency, Evolution, evolutionists, George Schaller, Intelligent Design, leaves, live observation, magnetic resonance imaging, mammals, Panda's Thumb, pseudo-thumb, Religions (journal), shoots, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, The Giant Pandas of Wolong
The basic argument is that “[o]dd arrangements and funny solutions” point to evolution whereas “ideal design” points to a “sensible God.” Source
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09Jun 2023 by Post

On Human Origins, New Peer-Reviewed Paper Reviews Models for Reconciling Science and Religion 

Adam and Eve, Ann Gauger, Answers in Genesis, BioLogos, Casey Luskin, Christianity, Denis Alexander, Evangelical Christians, evolutionary creationism, evolutionary models, Faith & Science, Faraday Institute, Genealogical Adam and Eve, Homo divinus, Homo heidelbergensis, Human Origins, Institute for Creation Research, Intelligent Design, Joshua Swamidass, non-evolutionary models, Ola Hössjer, peer-reviewed literature, reasons to believe, Religions (journal), Science and Faith in Dialogue, Science and Human Origins, Summer Seminar, theistic evolution, U.S. News & World Report, william lane craig, Young Earth Creationism, Zoom
In the final section of the paper, I proposed a scoring system to rate the models. Source
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