Tag: Atheism

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
September 21, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Alvin Plantinga, Atheism, bacterial flagellum, Barry Hall, blood clotting cascade, cilia H. Allen Orr, cilium, Evolution, Graham Oppy, Hermann J. Muller, irreducible complexity, Jack Smart, Kenneth Miller, lactose, Michael Behe, mousetrap, Naturalism, Pat Flynn, philosophical materialism, Philosophy for the People podcast, philosophy of science, Richard Dawkins, Russell Doolittle}

BEHE COUNTERS THE BEST OBJECTIONS TO IRREDUCIBLE COMPLEXITY AND ID, PT. 2

_{Michael Behe

September 21, 2022

Intelligent Design}

Today’s ID the Future continues A Mousetrap for Darwin author Michael Behe’s conversation with philosopher Pat Flynn, focused on some of the more substantive objections to Behe’s case for intelligent design in biology. In this segment the pair discuss the bacterial flagellum, the cilium, and the blood clotting cascade, and tackle critiques from Alvin Plantinga, Graham Oppy, Russell Doolittle, Kenneth Miller, and others. This interview is posted here by permission of Pat Flynn.

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 17, 2022

Categorized
Neuroscience and Mind

Tagged
Alzheimer’s disease, Andrew Newberg, Atheism, atheists, Brain, brain activity, brain imaging, brain scanning, Brain Weaver, Christian meditation, depression, emptying the mind, faith crisis, faith in God, God, Materialism, meditating on God, meditation, Michael Egnor, mind, mind-brain dualism, mind-brain problem, mystical experience, near-death experiences, Neurology, neuroscience, neurotheology, occipital lobes, Parkinson’s disease, psychedelic drugs, psychotherapy, Religion, religious faith, schizophrenia, soul, speaking in tongues, spiritual experiences, Theism, theists, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism}

Into the Mystic with a Neurosurgeon and a Neurotheologian

_{Michael Egnor

August 17, 2022

Neuroscience and Mind}

Today’s ID the Future continues the conversation between neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and neurotheologian Andrew Newberg. In this second and concluding part of their discussion, they further explore what experiments using brain scans reveal about how the brain is affected by meditation and mystical experiences, including near-death experiences. Also, what parts of the brain light up, and what parts go dormant, when someone is “speaking in tongues,” and how does someone who has this experience describe it, and does that description mesh with or clash with what turns up on the brain scans? Tune in to hear Newberg’s answer to this and other issues related to the mind-brain problem and the mystical. This interview is posted here by permission of Mind Read More ›

The Servant of God Mother Clara Zizic, Monastery of the Community of Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate in Sibenik, Croatia

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 15, 2022

Categorized
Neuroscience and Mind

Tagged
Andrew Newberg, Atheism, Brain, brain scanning, centering prayer, Christian mystics, contemplation, FMRI, Franciscan Nuns, frontal lobe, functional magnetic resonance imaging, God, Materialism, meditation, Michael Egnor, mind, mind-body dualism, mind-brain problem, mystical experiences, neuroscience, neurotheology, parietal lobe, prayer, Religion, Roger Scruton, soul, Theism, transcendence}

The Mind/Brain Problem and the Power of Meditative Prayer

_{Michael Egnor

August 15, 2022

Neuroscience and Mind}

It’s hard to know where the brain ends and the mind begins. How can studying our brains give us insight into our minds? On this ID the Future, neuroscientist Andrew Newberg and neurosurgeon Michael Egnor sit down for a chat about all things brain related including neurotheology, methods of studying the brain, and research on how various forms of religious and non-religious meditation actually change the wiring of the brain, including in particular a study Newberg did on Franciscan nuns and what they refer to as “centering prayer.” This interview is borrowed, with permission, from Mind Matters, a podcast of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence.

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
August 3, 2022

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
appearance of design, Atheism, Big Bang, Breaking the Spell, Charles Darwin, complex specified information, cosmic lottery, cosmological constant, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, design argument, Edwin Hubble, exploring the string landscape, fine tuning, fine tuning of initial conditions, Fred Hoyle, God hypothesis, immanent designer, inflationary cosmological model, inflaton field, Intelligent Design, John Polkinghorne, laws of physics and chemistry, Mount Rushmore, multiple universes, multiverse, Natural Selection, New Atheism, Occam’s Razor, origin of the universe, random variation, resonance state in carbon-12, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, string theory, The God Delusion, the nones, Theism, transcendent designer, universe-generating mechanisms}

Stephen Meyer: One God or Many Universes?

_{Stephen C. Meyer

August 3, 2022

Faith and Science}

In this ID the Future, Stephen Meyer takes a deep dive into the case for not only intelligent design, but also for a designer of the cosmos who is immaterial, eternal, transcendent, and involved. Meyer draws on evidence for design at the origin of life, in the origin of plants and animals, and from the fine tuning of the laws and constants of chemistry and the initial conditions of the universe. He connects all this to the scientific evidence that the universe is not eternal but had a beginning—the Big Bang. What about the main materialistic alternative for explaining this suite of evidence—the idea that there is a multiverse with our universe just being one of the lucky universes with Read More ›

The Very Large Array (VLA) radio-astronomy antennas, in New Mexico, is one of the most impressive observatories in the world. The Sun was piercing through after a major storm during a public tour.

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
July 11, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
alien life, Atheism, Carl Sagan, Carl Sagan’s Contact, Contact, cosmos, design detection, DNA, DRAKE equation, extra-terrestrial intelligence, Fred Hoyle, Gifford Lectures, Gloria Patri, intelligent causes, Intelligent Design, Materialism, methodological naturalism, Michael Behe, National Academy of Sciences, Paul Nelson, philosophical naturalism, Pi, prime numbers, pulsars, religious skepticism, Robert Crowther, science fiction, search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, SETI, Stephen Meyer, superstition, The Demon Haunted World, UAP, unidentified arial phenomenon, William Dembski}

Carl Sagan’s Love/Hate Relationship with Intelligent Design

_{Paul Nelson

July 11, 2022

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future, philosopher of science Paul Nelson explores an intriguing tension in the thinking of famous scientist and science popularizer Carl Sagan concerning his agnosticism shading into atheism on the one hand, and on the other hand his embrace of certain ideas consistent with the theory of intelligent design. As Nelson is quick to clarify, if Sagan had lived to see the rise of the contemporary intelligent design movement, he probably would have rejected it, particularly its theistic implications. And yet, Nelson says, Sagan’s thinking and arguments laid out in his Gifford lectures and in his science fiction novel Contact strongly support the idea that intelligent design can be detected. Nelson goes further, saying that if we Read More ›

ISS043E091794 (04/07/2015) --- Astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station are regular witness to the beauty of our planet Earth from their high vantage point. This image was taken on Apr 7, 2015 by the crew of Expedition 43.

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 4, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
apologetics, Atheism, Ben Stein, Biological Information, Casey Luskin, Christianity, creationists, Darwinism, design detection, DNA, Evolution, evolutionary informatics, Expelled, genetic code, Intelligent Design, Junk DNA, Mt. Rushmore, purpose, Richard Dawkins, Science and faith, SETI, teleology, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Theism, Theology, William Dembski}

William Dembski: Why Intelligent Design Matters

_{William A. Dembski

May 4, 2022

Intelligent Design}

On this ID the Future intelligent design pioneer William Dembski unpacks one of his chapters in The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith: Exploring the Ultimate Questions about Life and the Cosmos, which Dembski co-edited with Joseph Holden and episode host Casey Luskin. The chapter, “Why Intelligent Design Matters,” focuses on ID’s cultural implications. Dembski notes that atheists use mindless evolution to provide a God-free explanation for life and the universe. Intelligent design checks that move, showing that blind material processes couldn’t have created many things in nature, much less the cosmos itself. Intelligent design is the better explanation. What about the idea that an alien created, say, the first life on Earth (intelligent design without the need for God)? Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 2, 2022

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
1 Corinthians, Atheism, birth of science, Casey Luskin, Christianity, Darwinism, definition of faith, definition of science, Evolution, faith, fall of man, Galileo, God, God of creation, God of redemption, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Johannes Kepler, methodological materialism, methodological naturalism, Michael Faraday, natural philosophy, Nicolaus Copernicus, philosophy of science, Science, Science and faith, scientific revolution, Scientism, self-refuting claims, Theism, Theology, tree of the knowledge of good and evil, trust, truth, William Dembski}

William Dembski on Scientism, Science, and Christian Faith

_{William A. Dembski

May 2, 2022

Faith and Science}

On today’s ID the Future, philosopher William Dembski and host Casey Luskin explore the relationship between science and faith. What is science? What is faith? How does Christianity define faith? Dembski explains that faith in the Judeo-Christian tradition is not the opposite of reason; at the same time, faith possesses a relational component—trust in a just, gracious, and reasonable God—that goes beyond mere assent to propositions. As for science, Dembski describes it as a careful search for truths about the natural world, including truths about key elements such as the birth of our fine-tuned universe and the origin of living things. Dembski says that he is convinced that scientific discoveries, unshackled from atheistic blinders, point strongly to intelligent design as Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
March 30, 2022

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
agnosticism, Atheism, Darwinism, David Berlinski, emotivism, Evolution, God, human exceptionalism, human rights, Humanize podcast, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Jewish Holocaust, Marcel Schützenberger, Materialism, metaphysics, methodological materialism, Michael Behe, Natural Selection, nature rights movement, Nazis, Nazism, nihilism, Notre Dame, Peter Abelard, philosophy of science, random mutations, self-referential fallacies, The SS State, Theism, Wesley J. Smith}

David Berlinski on Nazism, Darwinism, Emotivism, and Nature Rights

_{David Berlinski

March 30, 2022

Ethics}

On today’s ID the Future, Human Nature author David Berlinski continues his conversation with host Wesley J. Smith. Here Berlinski reflects on the Jewish Holocaust, the destructive nihilism of the Nazis and the SS, and the shortcomings of Neo-Darwinism as an explanation for the diversity of life. Berlinski and Smith also discuss the increasingly widespread attacks on human exceptionalism, the growth of emotivism and why it’s a problem, and the bizarre nature rights movement. This is the second and concluding part of a conversation borrowed, with permission, from Wesley J. Smith’s Humanize podcast.

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Author
Jay Richards

Date
March 14, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
anti-design, apologetics, Atheism, biological complexity argument, Casey Luskin, Christian apologetics, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Cosmological Argument, Darwinian Evolution, demarcation argument, design argument, design argument from human reason, Evolution, fine tuning of physics, history of science, Human Reason, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Jay W. Richards, Materialism, natural science, origin of life argument, origin of the universe Kalam cosmological argument, philosophical materialism, philosophy of science, Privileged Planet argument, public evidence scientism, purpose, teleology, theistic Darwinism, theistic evolution, Thomas Nagel}

Jay Richards on the Art of Answering Theistic Evolutionists

_{Jay Richards

March 14, 2022

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future, philosopher Jay Richards offers advices on engaging with evolutionists over the issues of origins, evolution, and intelligent design. In his conversation with host Casey Luskin, he says that if someone tells you he’s a theistic evolutionist, first find out what he means by theism and evolution. The latter term, in particular, can have widely varying meanings, and the average lay persons who see themselves as theistic evolutionists likely see God as actively and creatively working in the history of life to steer evolutionary outcomes, including the origin of humanity. What they may not realize is that such a view takes them well outside the bounds of what academic theistic evolutionists generally mean by the term Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 28, 2022

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
Albert Einstein, Aristotle, Atheism, atomism, automatism, Bertrand Russell, chance, Darwinism, empirical evidence, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, European Enlightenment, Evolution, experimental science, fine tuning, Galen, Hank Hanegraaff, Intelligent Design, James Le Fanu, John Lennox, logical positivism, Lucretius, Materialism, Michael Denton, Natural Selection, Neil Thomas, nihilism, Plato, Privileged Planet, rationalism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Spilsbury, Thomas Huxley}

Neil Thomas Takes on Epicurus and the Logical Positivists

_{Neil Thomas

January 28, 2022

Evolution}

Today’s ID the Future concludes a three-part series featuring author Neil Thomas in a free-ranging conversation with radio show host Hank Hanegraaff. The focus is Thomas’s recent book, Taking Leave of Darwin: A Longtime Agnostic Discovers the Case for Design. Here Thomas and Hanegraaff discuss the logical positivists and what Thomas sees as their failure to consistently apply their evidential standards to Darwinism. Thomas also contrasts the cosmic nihilism of Richard Dawkins with the mounting evidence of fine tuning for life, and calls out what Thomas describes as the magical thinking at the heart of Darwinism. Hanegraaff and Thomas also explore how Darwin’s theory of evolution has roots in an ancient philosophical system that was long regarded as resting on Read More ›