The Stream – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

24Jun 2023 by Post

How to Discuss Intelligent Design with Friends

abductive reasoning, caricature, colleagues, dialogue, Evolution, Evolution News, family members, friends, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, materialism, misinformation, Podcast, Socratic method, straw man, The Stream, Tom Gilson

There is so much misinformation about the theory of ID that many well-intended people reject not the actual theory but a silly caricature, a straw man. Source

21Mar 2023 by Post

Gilson: How a Teacher Wrecked Biology for Me, and How I Got Past It

biology, Culture, Education, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary theory, high school, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Podcast, researchers, scientists, teachers, The Stream, Tom Gilson

His biology teacher could take an entire class period to tell Charles Darwin’s life story, and then repeat the same class, virtually verbatim. Source

04Mar 2023 by Post

Why High School Biology Made Me Angry (And Why I Like It So Much Better Now)

biology, cell membrane, cell walls, Charles Darwin, computers, Derek Muller, Discovery Institute, Education, Evolution, high school, Howard Glicksman, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Lex Luthor, mitochondria, molecular machines, nanomachines, nucleus, organelles, oxygen, Podcasts, protoplasm, Superman, teachers, Technology, The Stream, Thermos bottle, Veritasium

Your own body has something like 30 trillion cells in it. That’s 30 trillion large cities’ worth of complexity. Source

15Jul 2021 by Post

In Writing for Lay and Scientific Readers, Stephen Meyer Dances at Two Weddings

cosmology, experts, laymen, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, specialists, Stephen Meyer, The Stream, Tom Gilson, weddings, Yiddish

If the experts "have an objection," says Tom Gilson, Meyer "knows it already, and he answers it." Source

04Apr 2021 by Post

Meyer: “Is the Designer an Alien or God?”

alien intelligence, atheists, biological information, Brian Keating, cosmos, DNA, HarperOne, Intelligent Design, New Atheism, origin of life, panspermia, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, scientists, The Stream, U.C. San Diego

"The fine-tuning of the universe is better explained by an intelligent agent that transcends the universe, with attributes that we associate with God." Source

27Feb 2021 by Post

From Tom Gilson, Rhetorical Advice for Opponents of Intelligent Design

Evolution, faith, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, organizational psychology, Persuasion, philosophy, rhetoric, rhetorical strategies, straw man, The Stream, Tom Gilson

Getting ID theory right instead of criticizing a made-up straw man would be a good start. Source

28Jan 2021 by Post

The Tragedy of Eukaryote Evolution

archaea, bacteria, California, careers, coronavirus, death camps, eukaryotes, Evolution, gender binary, gender-reveal party, genders, heterosexuality, housework, Insider (magazine), Jane Ward, John Zmirak, Maine, New York University Press, nucleus, parody, prokaryotes, sex, sexuality, The Stream, The Tragedy of Heterosexuality, tigers, UC Riverside, wildfires

Think of all the frustrated longings, misunderstandings, jealousy, and more entailed by the fact that males and females constitute separate genders. Source

15Jan 2021 by Post

When Darwinism Reigns, “The Pyramid Is the Point”

alpha male, animals, beauty, biology, brutality, charm, condors, Culture & Ethics, CuriosityStream, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Evolution, gorillas, hierarchy, Intelligent Design, John Zmirak, personal interactions, pyramid, sea lionesses, teleology, The Stream, YouTube videos

The Darwinian view encourages a way of interacting with others where the aim is to “humiliate [one’s] lesser brethren, just to remind them who’s boss.” Source

14Oct 2020 by Post