Tag: Atheism

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Author
Douglas Axe

Date
December 8, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

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> Douglas Axe, age of wonder, Alison Gopnik, Atheism, baking cookies, beta-lactamase, Casey Luskin, chance, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Darwinism, design detection, Design Intuition, dragonflies, enzymes, Evolution, functional enzyme, functional proteins, God, Intelligent Design, Joseph Holden, know-how, Lottery, Mind and Cosmos, Natural Selection, overwhelming improbabilities, Penicillin, protein evolution, protein experiment, protein folding, protein function, random mutations, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, Thomas Nagel, Undeniable, William Dembski}

Axe’s Not-So-Secret Guide to Making Cookies and Dragonflies

_{Douglas Axe

December 8, 2021

Faith and Science}

This ID the Future brings in protein scientist Douglas Axe to discuss his contribution to a new book, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith. Axe and host Casey Luskin discuss Axe’s thinking on the design intuition, the evidence that it’s triggered almost universally in small children when they observe things like dragonflies or fresh-baked cookies, and why he’s convinced that this intuition is a rational one rooted in our true sense of what sorts of things require know-how for their creation. For those who retort “Science!,” Axe has some of that to offer as well. As he tells Luskin, he led an experiment at a lab in Cambridge, England, on the abilities and limits of an enzyme to evolve. The research findings Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 29, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
apologetics, Atheism, Biological Information, complex specified information, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, CSI, DNA, Evolution, fine tuning, fine-tuned universe, genetic information, God, Intelligent Design, knockout experiments, laws and constants of physics, laws of physics, Michael Shermer, Molecular Machines, Mount Rushmore, Proteins, public evidence, Scientific Evidence, Theism, theistic evolution}

Casey Luskin on Why Intelligent Design is Worth Defending

_{Casey Luskin

November 29, 2021

Faith and Science}

Today’s ID the Future spotlights The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith. Host Eric Anderson interviews one of the anthology’s co-editors and contributors, geologist Casey Luskin. The two focus on just one of Luskin’s contributed essays, one that addresses two primary questions: Is intelligent design true? And is it worth expending the energy to defend it against powerful opposition? Luskin answers both questions in the affirmative, and explains why he sees the new anthology as a great resource in the cause of intelligent design.

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
November 15, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Albert Einstein, Allan Sandage, Andrew Klavan, Andrew Klavan Show, Atheism, Big Bang, birth of science, Christianity, contingency, Edwin Hubble, fine tuning, foundations of modern science, God hypothesis, Intelligent Design, Judeo-Christian worldview, laws of physics, Materialism, Mind and Cosmos, multiverse, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, scientific revolution, Stephen C. Meyer, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, Theism, Theology, Thomas Nagel}

Andrew Klavan and Stephen Meyer Talk God and Science

_{Stephen C. Meyer

November 15, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On this ID the Future Stephen Meyer sits down with talk show host and bestselling novelist Andrew Klavan to discuss Meyer’s Return of the God Hypothesis. In this fast-paced conversation the pair touch on the Judeo-Christian roots of science, how fine tuning in physics and cosmology point to intelligent design, and how a great many scientists held out hope that the universe was eternal and therefore did not require a creator, but eventually threw in the towel as evidence mounted for a cosmic beginning. What about the multiverse hypothesis as an escape for atheists wishing to explain away the evidence for a cosmic designer? Meyer explains why it fails Occam’s Razor, and then he and Klavan discuss a noted atheist Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
November 1, 2021

Categorized
Life Sciences

Tagged
astronomy, Atheism, atmosphere, atmospheric fine tuning, birth of science, Boyle, Carl Sagan, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, circumstellar habitable zoon, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Copernicus, Descartes, discoverability, earth, Faraday, fine tuning, Galactic Habitable Zone, Galileo, Guillermo Gonzalez, habitability, Intelligent Design, Kepler, light spectrum, Materialism, Maxwell, Milky Way, moon, Newton, pale blue dot, perfect solar eclipses, planetary fine tuning, prisms, Privileged Planet, purposelessness, rainbows, scientific revolution, solar eclipses, spectroscopy, transparent atmosphere}

Carl Sagan Wrong about “Pale Blue Dot,” Says Astrobiologist

_{Guillermo Gonzalez

November 1, 2021

Life Sciences}

On today’s ID the Future, astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez unpacks one of his chapters in the new book The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, edited by episode host Casey Luskin. Gonzalez and Luskin look at how our atmosphere as well as the sun, moon, distance from our host star, and position in the Milky Way are all curiously fine tuned not only for life but also for allowing Earth’s human inhabitants to observe and discover things near and far about nature. It’s as if a master designer made the Earth not merely for life but for curious and intelligent beings. What about the fact that Earth is such a tiny part of a vast universe, a “pale blue dot” as Read More ›

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Author
Max McLean

Date
October 18, 2021

Tagged
Albert Lewis, apologetics, argument from undesign, Atheism, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Christian conversion, CSLewismovie.com, Darwinism, Dymer, Fellowship for Performing Arts, Further Up and Further In, idealism, John G. West, Max McLean, Narnia, origin of reason, Owen Barfield, Pilgrim’s Regress, problem of pain, Shaodowlands, Surprised by Joy, The Great Divorce, The Magician’s Twin, The Most Reluctant Convert, The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Theism, World War I}

Max McLean Talks about His New C.S. Lewis Movie

_{Max McLean

October 18, 2021}

On this ID the Future award-winning actor Max McLean joins host John West to discuss his new film, The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis. West and McLean discuss how McClean came to do stage plays focused on Lewis’s work, and how he and filmmaker Norman Stone came to create a feature-length dramatic film in the midst of the coronavirus shutdown. McLean tells about Lewis’s long and winding conversion from agnosticism to Christianity, and then he and West focus on those aspects of Lewis’s conversion centered on science, evolutionary theory, and rational theism. Key to Lewis’s move from agnosticism to idealism and eventually Judeo-Christian theism—his friend Owen Barfield and the question of the origin of reason. Lewis Read More ›

Sunset in the sea, a small sailing boat at sunset away

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 29, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
abrupt appearance, African perspective, African scientists, agnosticism, Atheism, beginning of universe, Biological Information, Casey Luskin, Creationism, David Gelernter, Dover intelligent design trial, Dover vs. Kitzmiller, fine tuning, Fossil Record, history of life, human exceptionalism, irreducible complexity, local fine tuning, Michael Shermer, Molecular Machines, Neil Thomas, New Atheism, new new atheists, nihilism, Phil Torres, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Salon.com, Sapiens, Science, Science and faith, scientific Materialism, Scientism, Stephen Meyer, Steven Weinberg, supernatural, superstition, Theism, Thomas Nagel, warfare model, Western perspective, Yuval Noah Harari}

Bidding Adieu to Steven Weinberg’s Take on Science and Faith

_{Casey Luskin

September 29, 2021

Faith and Science}

On today’s ID the Future, Casey Luskin, associate director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, discusses his Evolution News article about the recently deceased Steven Weinberg. On Weinberg’s view, one of science’s social functions is to undermine religion, which he sees as superstition. Luskin takes the opposite view and points to skilled and successful scientists he got to know in Africa. He says these scientists are convinced that the supernatural is real and would find Weinberg’s secular Western rejection of the supernatural as blinkered. Luskin and host Robert Crowther also discuss a hopeful trend among some atheists toward a more civil and respectful way of engaging intelligent design, even to the point of acknowledging that design theorists are Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
September 20, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
Alexander Vilenkin, Atheism, Big Bang, Boltzmann brain problem, boundary constraints, cosmic beginning, Deepak Chopra, epistemological chaos, fine tuning, Hartle-Hawking Model, Intelligent Design, John Leslie, John Searle, Lawrence Krauss, laws of physics, Michael Polanyi, Michael Shermer, mind-body dualism, monism, nothingness, panpsychism, Pantheism, physicalism, prime reality, pure mathematics, quantum cosmology, rationality, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Schrödinger equation, singularity, Stephen C. Meyer, The Mystery of Existence, Theism, universal wave function, Universe from Nothing, Wheeler-DeWitt equation, Who Designed the Designer}

Pt. 4: Stephen Meyer and Skeptic Michael Shermer

_{Stephen C. Meyer

September 20, 2021

Faith and Science}

This ID the Future wraps up a lively four-part series between religious skeptic Michael Shermer and Return of the God Hypothesis author and philosopher of science Stephen Meyer. Here Meyer underscores the fact that every worldview must posit something as the prime reality, and he argues that positing mind (rather than matter) as the prime reality solves far more problems in science, and not just in origins science. What about the idea of a multiverse to explain the fine tuning of the laws and constants of physics? Meyer concedes that this is a solution of sorts, but it comes at a tremendous cost, which he explains. That’s just a taste of where Meyer and Shermer go in this final segment. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
September 17, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
alien life, Atheism, Big Bang, deism, extra-terrestrial life, fine tuning, Francis Crick, front-loaded, Intelligent Design, Michael Polanyi, Michael Shermer, Natural Theology, origin of life, origin of the universe, panspermia, Richard Dawkins, Sean Carroll, Shermer’s Last Law, skepticism, Stephen C. Meyer, The Big Picture, Theism, theology of nature}

Pt. 3: Stephen Meyer and Skeptic Michael Shermer

_{Stephen C. Meyer

September 17, 2021

Faith and Science}

On this ID the Future, Return of the God Hypothesis author Stephen Meyer and skeptic Michael Shermer address the question of how a divine immaterial being could act in the material world to design and fashion things such as the first life. Meyer argues that while we don’t know precisely how an immaterial mind would do this or did do this, we have good evidence that minds can and do affect matter, as for instance in the evidence that our minds can affect our brains and, by extension, our bodies. Meyer and Shermer also discuss the idea of front-loaded intelligent design—that is, where God loaded into the moment of the Big Bang everything necessary for the emergence of stars, planets, Earth, Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
September 15, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
abductive reasoning, Alvy Singer, Alvy’s Error, Annie Hall, Atheism, Bayesian reasoning, Charles Darwin, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, fine tuning, Fred Hoyle, freedom, God, God hypothesis, Harold J. Berman, Intelligent Design, James Davison Hunter, Materialism, methodological naturalism, Michael Shermer, moral absolutes, moral argument for God, moral objectivism, moral relativism, Morality, Naturalism, nature red in tooth and claw, Origin of the Species, Paul Nedelisky, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Science and the Good, skepticism, sociobiology, Stephen C. Meyer, Theism, Woody Allen}

Pt. 2: Stephen Meyer and Skeptic Michael Shermer

_{Stephen C. Meyer

September 15, 2021

Faith and Science}

Today’s ID the Future continues a lively and cordial conversation between atheist Michael Shermer and Stephen Meyer, author of Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe. In this segment of the four-part series, Shermer and Meyer discuss a fourth argument for theism, the moral law within. Then they discuss the similarities and differences between inferring design for something like the Rosetta Stone versus inferring intelligent design from the information in DNA or the fine tuning of the universe. The interview is reposted here by permission of Michael Shermer.

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
September 13, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
Allen Sandage, Altenberg 16, Atheism, beginning of the universe, Big Bang, BioLogos, Brian Keating, confirmation bias, Darrel Falk, Eugene Koonin, exotic naturalism, fine tuning, fine tuning of the universe, Francis Crick, God and the Astronomers, Günter Bechly, imaginary time, James Tour, Materialism, metaphysical hypotheses, methodological naturalism, Michael Shermer, multiverse, Neo-Darwinism, origin of life, oscillating universe model, panspermia, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, RNA World hypothesis, Robert Jastrow, skepticism, steady state theory, Stephen C. Meyer, Stephen Hawking, Theism, theistic evolution}

Stephen Meyer and Skeptic Michael Shermer, Pt. 1

_{Stephen C. Meyer

September 13, 2021

Faith and Science}

Today’s ID the Future spotlights the first part of a lively and cordial conversation between host and atheist Michael Shermer and Stephen Meyer, author of Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe. In this first of the four-part series, the two touch on everything from Meyer’s three key lines of evidence for theism to a quick flyover of less well-known materialistic origins theories, including the oscillating universe model, panspermia as an explanation for the origin of the first life on earth, and Stephen Hawking’s idea of imaginary time. Meyer lumps many of these ideas under what he terms exotic naturalism and suggests that the atheists who defend these explanations are multiplying exotic Read More ›