Tag: Atheism

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Author
John G. West

Date
May 4, 2020

Categorized
Culture

Tagged
__edited, afterlife, Alfred Kinsey, Atheism, Christopher Ryan, Cornell University, cultural decay, Darwin Day in America, Darwinism, divine omnipotence, divine omniscience, Ethics, Evolution, faith, Finding Darwin’s God, fine-tuning, George Coyne, God, human exceptionalism, human zoos, Intelligent Design, Kenneth Miller, marriage, Materialism, moral relativism, National Public Radio, Neo-Darwinism, Philip Skell, Privileged Species, purpose, Religion, scientific Materialism, Sex at Dawn, sexual ethics, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, soul, theistic evolutionist, Thomas Nagel}

John West on Darwin’s Culturally Corrosive Idea, Pt. 2

_{John G. West

May 4, 2020

Culture}

On this episode of ID the Future, hear the second half of Discovery Institute’s John West’s talk given at the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, on how Darwinism has corroded Western culture. In this portion he examines the morally poisoning effects of Darwinism on marriage, sexual ethics, and religion, such that virtually anything can be defended as OK, and no particular culture’s ethic is to be preferred over another. Humankind’s spiritual purpose has likewise been eroded. Yet West closes with hope: science in our generation is discovering more and more signs of intelligent design and purpose in nature, and young researchers are learning that materialism shouldn’t be the foregone conclusion of contemporary science.

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
March 19, 2020

Tagged
__edited, abduction, Atheism, Big Bang, creative story-telling, experimental science, fantastical science, fantasy science, historical science, Inference to the Best Explanation, inferential science, information density, Materialism, multiverse, origin of the universe, philosophy of science, Proteins, science fiction, Scientism}

Kirk Durston on Fantasy Science and Scientism — Pt. 3 of 3

_{Kirk Durston

March 19, 2020}

On this episode of ID the Future, Kirk Durston, a biophysicist focused on identifying high-information-density parts of proteins, completes a three-part series on three categories of science: experimental, inferential, and fantasy science. Fantasy science makes inferential leaps so huge that virtually none of it is testable, either by the standards of experimental science or by those of the historical sciences, which reason to the best explanation by process of elimination. One example of fantasy science, according to Durston, is the multiverse. As he insists, an imaginative story largely untethered from evidence and testing but told using math instead of literary devices is still an imaginative story untethered from evidence and testing. Scientism, “atheism dressed up in a lab coat,” can lead Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
December 6, 2019

Categorized
Science

Tagged
__edited, agnosticism, anti-Semitism, Atheism, Darwinism, demographic winter, entropy, Europe, Evolution, Jews and Muslims, nation state, nationalism, patriotism, second law of thermodynamics, Theism}

Peter Robinson Interviews David Berlinski, Pt. 3

_{David Berlinski

December 6, 2019

Science}

Today’s episode of ID the Future features the third and final part of a conversation between Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson and Darwin skeptic David Berlinski, author of the newly released book Human Nature. Here the pair discuss the fate of Europe. Then they turn again to science, and the challenge the second law of thermodynamics poses for Darwinism and, by implication, to any theory of biological origins restricted to purely mindless processes. Berlinski suggests that this poses a considerable challenge, tempting Robinson to ask Berlinski whether he still consider himself an agnostic.

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 21, 2019

Tagged
__edited, agnosticism, Atheism, C.S. Lewis, David Attenborough, God, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, reason, termites, Theism, theistic arguments, Thomas Aquinas, will, William Lane Craig}

Michael Egnor on Atheist Jerry Coyne’s Divine Sense Organ

_{Michael Egnor

October 21, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid brings listeners a pair of Michael Egnor responses to atheist biologist Jerry Coyne, who recently argued that if God existed, we’d have sense organs to detect Him. We do have that organ, says Egnor. It’s reason, the means by which we can infer the reality of a designing mind behind nature.

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
September 23, 2019

Tagged
__edited, abolitionism, Africa, agnosticism, Alt Right, Atheism, Charles Darwin, Christianity, dehumanization, imago dei, James Watson, Judeo-Christian tradition, Konrad Lorenz, Michael Ruse, Natural Selection, Peter Singer, scientific racism, slavery, Tierra del Fuego, Voyage of the Beagle, white nationalism}

Weikart on Racism, Darwinism and Christianity

_{Richard Weikart

September 23, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, Cal State history professor Richard Weikart, author of The Death of Humanity and the Case for Life, talks racism past and present, in both Christian and “scientific” secular history.

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Author
Frank Tipler

Date
July 22, 2019

Tagged
__edited, Atheism, Big Bang, bubble universe models, fine structure constant, fine-tuning, Frank Tipler, Fred Hoyle, inflationary model, multiverse, singularity, supernatural}

Frank Tipler on the Singularity Atheists Keep Trying To Evade

_{Frank Tipler

July 22, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future we hear commentary on the singularity from Frank Tipler, Professor of Mathematical Physics at Tulane University and co-author of The Anthropic Cosmological Principle.

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Author
Jay Richards

Date
June 19, 2019

Tagged
__edited, Atheism, Materialism}

Jay Richards on How Materialism Dismantles Itself, and the Self

_{Jay Richards

June 19, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, philosopher and Discovery Institute senior fellow Jay Richards shows how materialism is an acid that eats itself along with the self. Richards argues that it also eats all the immaterial things that make science work — all while posing as objective science. The interview is taken from Discovery Institute’s new Science Uprising initiative, featuring high-concept short YouTube videos and single-expert interviews touch on a wide range of subjects related to intelligent design, philosophical materialism, theism, atheism and modern Darwinism. Richards and other familiar faces are among the experts, along with two or three distinguished scientists who may be new to followers of ID the Future. Check it out here.

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 8, 2019

Tagged
__edited, Albert Einstein, Andromeda galaxy, Arno Penzias, Arthur Eddington, Atheism, Big Bang, deism, Edwin Hubble, Kalam Cosmological Argument, Materialism, philosophical naturalism, quantum cosmology, quantum gravity, red shift, Robert Jastrow, Stephen Hawking, Theism}

Stephen Meyer: God and the Origin of the Universe, Pt. 2

_{Stephen C. Meyer

April 8, 2019}

This episode of ID the Future features the second and concluding part of a talk given by Stephen Meyer at the 2019 Dallas Science and Faith Conference. Picking up from his previous comments on how atheistic/materialistic assumptions have come to dominate much of the science community. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 3, 2019

Tagged
__edited, Atheism, Charles Darwin, Dallas Science and Faith Conference, intelligibility, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, laws of nature, Materialism, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, order, origins of science, Pierre LaPlace, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Robert Boyle, scientific Materialism, scientific revolution}

Stephen Meyer: God and the Origin of the Universe, Pt. 1

_{Stephen C. Meyer

April 3, 2019}

This episode of ID the Future features part one of a talk given by Stephen Meyer at the 2019 Dallas Science and Faith Conference. In this portion of the talk, Meyer explains Christianity’s crucial influence on the founders of science, and how much of the scientific establishment has shifted toward methodological atheism. Read More ›

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Author
Moshe Averick

Date
March 6, 2019

Tagged
__edited, argument from ignorance, Atheism, digital code, Eugenie Scott, Fred Hoyle, God of the gaps, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, Materialism, origin of life, perpetual motion machines, theometer}

Averick Takes on the “God of the Gaps” Objection

_{Moshe Averick

March 6, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, Rabbi Moshe Averick, author of Nonsense of a High Order: The Confused World of Modern Atheism, responds to the objection that intelligent design is a feeble “God of the Gaps” approach, an argument from ignorance. Provocative and entertaining, Averick describes the attack as “less than feeble.” He says it isn’t because of what we don’t know, but because of what we do know. He offers as an illustration the widespread skepticism in the physics community toward the possibility of anyone ever building a perpetual motion machine. Their skepticism is not driven by ignorance of how to build such a machine, Averick notes. It’s driven by their knowledge of the fundamental laws of physics. Read More ›