Tag: Atheism

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Author
Jay Richards

Date
August 2, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
agnosticism, Aristotle, Atheism, book of nature, C.S. Lewis, Carl Sagan, Copernican Principle, cosmic beginning, cosmos, discoverability, earth, eternal universe, extrasolar planets, fifth element, fine tuning, founders of modern science, Galileo, general revelation, Gloria Patri, habitability, Intelligent Design, Jay W. Richards, Kepler, Materialism, pale blue dot, Pantheism, Pre-Copernican cosmology, Psalm 19, purpose, Science and faith, scientific revolution, space exploration, The Privileged Planet, Theism}

Jay Richards: Before Carl Sagan Said It, Science Debunked It

_{Jay Richards

August 2, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future, Privileged Planet co-author Jay W. Richards sits down with host Eric Anderson to discuss the gold rush of extrasolar planet discovery and how the Privileged Planet hypothesis has held up since 2004. Richards teases an anniversary edition of The Privileged Planet in the works, and he and Anderson discuss the statement that Carl Sagan is perhaps most famous for. Richards explains how science had already disproven the famous Sagan claim by the time the astronomer first uttered it to millions of viewers in his documentary series Cosmos.

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 28, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
agnosticism, Alister McGrath, Atheism, BioLogos, Bruce Gordon, Christopher L. Reese, complex specified information, constrained integration view of science and religion, dialogue view of science and religion, evolutionary creation, evolutionary psychology, Faith and Science, Francis Collins, historical sciences, independence view of science and religion, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, methodological naturalism, Michael Ruse, Naturalism, NOMA, Non-overlapping magisteria, Paul Copan, postmodernism, Robert Boyle, science and religion, Scientific Method, scientific revolution, Stephen J. Gould, theistic evolution, Three Views on Christianity and Science, universal morality of human beings}

Casey Luskin Reviews Three Views on Christianity and Science

_{Casey Luskin

June 28, 2021

Faith and Science}

On today’s ID the Future, host Tom Gilson and guest Casey Luskin discuss a new book Luskin recently reviewed at Evolution News, Three Views on Christianity and Science. Luskin, associate director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, summarizes the three views covered in the book: the independence view presented by Michael Ruse, the dialogue view presented by Alister McGrath, and the constrained integration view presented by Bruce Gordon. Luskin critiques the first two and argues that the dialogue view, in practice, quickly devolves into a monologue where religion is supposed to sit down and shut up the moment there is a point of difference between religion and consensus science. He says this is doubly problematic because (a) scientists Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
June 21, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Alvin Plantinga, anthropic coincidences, Atheism, Bayesian probability calculus, ChroniclesofStrength.com, epistemology, evolutionary theory, fine tuning, Fred Hoyle, Intelligent Design, John Polkinghorne, metaphysics, Michael Ruse, multiverse, Naturalism, New Atheists, origins science, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Theism, Tim McGrew, universe-generating machine}

Pat Flynn, Stephen Meyer, and the Return of the God Hypothesis, Pt. 2

_{Stephen C. Meyer

June 21, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On this ID the Future, Pat Flynn continues his conversation with bestselling author and philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer, director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. The focus is Meyer’s new book, Return of the God Hypothesis, and here in the second and final part of their conversation, Flynn and Meyer discuss the beginning of the universe, the multiverse hypothesis, worldview bias, Bayesian probability calculus, methodological materialism, and specific scientific predictions that intelligent design thinking has motivated. This interview is presented here with permission of philosopher and YouTuber Pat Flynn.

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
June 9, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
agnosticism, Atheism, education, extraterrestrials, faith, history of science, Intelligent Design, loss of faith, Marc Bernier, medicine, Nazi, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science and faith, scientific Materialism, scientific revolution}

Science and Faith: Stephen Meyer on the Marc Bernier Show

_{Stephen C. Meyer

June 9, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future, listen to host Marc Bernier ask Stephen Meyer perceptive and wide-ranging questions about everything from the possibility of extraterrestrials, to the role of intelligent design in medicine and education, to meaning and the reliability of the mind. The discussion also turns to Meyer’s bestselling new book, Return of the God Hypothesis, and the reconciliation of science and faith. At one point Bernier asks Meyer about the statement, “The heart cannot exalt what the mind rejects,” and in reply Meyer talks about his personal experience grappling with the relationship between science and faith, and tells about a warning he used to give college students in a class he taught. This interview originally appeared on The Marc Bernier Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
May 10, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
action at a distance, Atheism, Big Bang, Biological Information, constant spirit action, deism, fine tuning, General Scholium, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, guided evolution, hypothesis non fingo, Intelligent Design, inverse square law, Isaac Newton, mechanical philosophy, multiverse, occult properties, origin of life, Principia Mathematica, quantum cosmology, RNA World hypothesis, scholastic philosophy, scientific revolution, singularity, Theism, theistic evolution, theory of gravity, unguided evolution}

God Hypothesis Returns: Frank Turek and Stephen Meyer Report

_{Stephen C. Meyer

May 10, 2021

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future episode features excerpts from a lively conversation with Frank Turek as host and Stephen Meyer as guest. The focus: Meyer’s new USA Today bestseller, Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries that Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe.* The two discuss the new book, and Meyer fields questions from the audience. The conversation originally appeared on Turek’s national radio show, CrossExamined, and the excerpts from that longer interview are used here with permission. (*As an Amazon Associate, Discovery Institute earns from qualifying purchases.)

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 19, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
agnosticism, Atheism, Big Bang, Boltzmann brains, Brief History of Time, cosmological models, cosmology, fine-tuning, God, Hilbert Space, imaginary time, Inference to the Best Explanation, Intelligent Design, Lawrence Krauss, many worlds hypotheses, Materialism, multiverse, New Atheists, philosophy of science, quantum cosmology, quantum theory, Return of the God Hypothesis, Schrödinger equation, Science and faith, self-defeating arguments, singularity, Stephen C. Meyer, Stephen Hawking, Theism, universal wave function, Wheeler-DeWitt equation}

Stephen Meyer Defends His New Book to Cosmologist Brian Keating, Pt. 2

_{Stephen C. Meyer

April 19, 2021

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future continues (by permission) the long-form conversation between Stephen Meyer, author of the newly released USA Today bestseller Return of the God Hypothesis, and UC-San Diego physicist Brian Keating. Here in part two the conversation turns to quantum cosmology, multiverse hypotheses, Stephen Hawking, and Hawking’s now-you-see-it/now-you-don’t use of imaginary time to deny a cosmic beginning. Meyer argues that Hawking’s imaginary-time trick doesn’t wash, there remains powerful evidence for a cosmic beginning, and that this beginning is best explained as the creation act of an intelligent, immaterial being. Also, Keating and Meyer tackle the question: Did Isaac Newton really blunder by invoking a God of the gaps to periodically tweak the solar system to smooth out perturbations? That is, was Newton led Read More ›

Zegiestow, Poland. 2019/8/10. Stained-glass window depicting the Creation of the World with the words

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 7, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Albert Einstein, Atheism, Big Bang, Bill Gates, Biological Information, carbon resonance, Charles Darwin, cosmological constant, cosmology, Darwin’s Doubt, digital code, DNA, eternal universe, expanding universe model, expansion rate of the universe, fine tuning, fine-tuning parameters, founders of science, Fred Hoyle, genetic information, God hypothesis, Goldilocks universe, imago dei, Intelligent Design, intelligibility of nature, Karl Marx, Materialism, Michael Medved, New Atheists, nihilism, origins, philosophical materialism, Richard Dawkins, scientific revolution, Sigmund Freud, Signature in the Cell, steady state model, Stephen C. Meyer, Theism}

Michael Medved and Stephen Meyer on the Return of the God Hypothesis

_{Stephen C. Meyer

April 7, 2021

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future features, by permission, a recent conversation between radio show host Michael Medved and philosopher of science Stephen Meyer as they discuss Meyer’s new book, Return of the God Hypothesis. Listen in as Meyer, director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, provides a swift flyover of 500 years of scientific history, in which he traces the rise, fall, and rise again of a paradigm Meyer refers to as “the God hypothesis.” To learn more about Meyer’s new book and see the growing list of enthusiastic reviews from top scientists, go to ReturnoftheGodHypothesis.com.

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
March 3, 2021

Categorized
Academic Freedom

Tagged
abiogenesis, Academic Freedom, academic integrity, Atheism, Ball State University, cancel culture, censorship, cosmology, fine tuning, Intelligent Design, origin of life, origin of the universe, physics, the Big Bang, Theism}

Physicist Eric Hedin Discusses His New ID Book, Canceled Science

_{Eric Hedin

March 3, 2021

Academic Freedom}

Today’s ID the Future spotlights Canceled Science: What Some Atheists Don’t Want You to See. Host Robert Crowther and author Eric Hedin begin by revisiting the atheist attack on Professor Hedin and his Ball State University course, the Boundaries of Science. The course was an interdisciplinary honors course exposing students to some basic astrophysics and cosmology, as well as to some of the big questions raised by such discoveries as the Big Bang and the fine-tuning of the laws and constants of physics for life. The course included mention of world-leading scientists who saw evidence of design in some of these findings, as well as mention of scientists who denied any evidence of design in nature. Atheist Jerry Coyne and Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 15, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Atheism, Cambridge University Press, Casey Luskin, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwinian Evolution, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, Evolution, evolutionary informatics, evolutionary theory, Harvest House Publisher, Intelligent Design, Marcos Eberlin, Materialism, No Free Lunch, Phillip Johnson, philosophical materialism, Science and faith, scientific revolutions, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, The Design Inference, Walter Bradley, Winston Ewert}

Bill Dembski Teases the 2021 Dallas ID Conference

_{William A. Dembski

February 15, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On this ID the Future, intelligent design pioneer William Dembski talks with host Robert Crowther about his return to the intelligent design arena and what he’s been up to during his time away from the front lines of the ID movement. He also gives a sneak preview of the talk he plans to give at this Saturday’s Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. The February 20 conference is open to both in-person and live online attendance. To learn more about this exciting event, and to register, go here.

3d rendering of pink jellyfish floating in the dark blue ocean background with sunlight.

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Date
November 9, 2020

Categorized
Neuroscience and Mind

Tagged
agnosticism, Aristotle, Atheism, consciousness, emergent property, epiphenomena, Evolution, final causes, genetic mutations, God, idealism, instinct, Intelligent Design, Jerry Fodor, Materialism, meta-cognitive, Natural Selection, organizing principles, panpsychism, philosophical materialism, pre-meditation, random mutations, randomness, self-reflection, teleology, What Darwin Got Wrong}

The Evolution (or not) of Consciousness

_{November 9, 2020

Neuroscience and Mind}

On this ID the Future neurosurgeon Michael Egnor interviews Bernardo Kastrup, a philosopher with a background in computer engineering, about consciousness, evolution, and intelligent design. Did consciousness evolve? What does the evidence suggest? And how do materialists deal with the seemingly immaterial reality that is consciousness? This is a guest episode borrowed with permission from Mind Matters, a podcast of Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence.