Tag: chemistry

01.10.2022, Paris France: illustrated Portrait of Louis Pasteur. High quality illustration

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
December 21, 2022

Categorized
Faith and Science

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Ann Gauger, anthrax, antiseptic conditions, Bacteria, beer making, chemistry, cholera, Creation, experimentation, fermentation, germ theory, history of science, Ignaz Semmelweis, immunization, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Louis Pasteur 200th birthday, Louis Pasteur anniversary, microbiology, microorganisms, Napoleon III, origin of life, paralysis, pasteurization, rabies, Robert Koch, Science and faith, silk, silkworm disease, silkworms, spontaneous generation, stroke, sugar making, typhoid, vaccine, virus, wine making, wishful thinking}

The 200th Birthday of Louis Pasteur: A Man of Science and Faith

_{Ann Gauger

December 21, 2022

Faith and Science}

December 27, 2022 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Pasteur, the French scientist whose scientific breakthroughs have saved millions of lives, and whose work on microbes sounded the death knell of the idea of spontaneous generation. On this episode of ID the Future, biologist Ann Gauger walks listeners through the triumphs, flaws, and tragedies in the life of this extraordinary individual. In the nineteenth century, it was widely believed that the spontaneous generation of life from non-life was common and unremarkable, since it was thought that spontaneous generation of worms, mold, and other life forms occurred all the time in rotting meat and dirty rags. Pasteur constructed an experiment demonstrating that these “spontaneously” arising worms and such Read More ›

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Author
John Bloom

Date
January 31, 2022

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
apologetics, astrology, astronomy, Babylonian astrology, birth of science, Casey Luskin, chemistry, Christianity, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, fall of man, Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei, gnosticism, history of science, imago dei, Johannes Kepler, John Bloom, Judeo-Christian, laws of nature, monotheism, near eastern studies, Nicolaus Copernicus, paganism, physics, Science and faith, scientific revolution, Theism}

John Bloom on the Match that Lit the Scientific Revolution

_{John Bloom

January 31, 2022

Faith and Science}

On today’s ID the Future Biola University physicist John Bloom discusses his chapter in the recent anthology The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, co-edited by host Casey Luskin. Bloom’s focus in his contributed chapter is the pivotal role of Christianity in the rise of science. Bloom, the academic director of Biola’s master’s program in science and religion, draws on his PhD training in physics but also on his PhD in ancient Near Eastern studies and his study of the history of science. Here he argues that while the Babylonians and Greeks contributed some discoveries and insights that would eventually play into the rise of science, science did not take off, was not born, until a cluster of crucial ideas Read More ›

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Author
Marcos Eberlin

Date
August 14, 2019

Categorized
Evolution

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__edited, aquaporin, asparagine, chemistry, chicken-egg problem, Darwinism, DNA, Evolution, foresight, Intelligent Design, just-so stories, Marcos Eberlin, molecular chaperones, Neo-Darwinism, phosphates, Proteins, ribose, RNA}

Marcos Eberlin on Evolution’s Water-Gate Problem

_{Marcos Eberlin

August 14, 2019

Evolution}

On this episode of ID the Future, internationally distinguished scientist Marcos Eberlin, author of the new book Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose, talks about evolution’s “water gate” problem. There’s no conspiracy here, just life’s astonishing answer for admitting water into cells through “gates” while keeping lethal acidifying proteins out. There’s also a chicken-egg problem involving proteins and molecular chaperones. That and more, Eberlin argues, add up to the conclusion that life required foresight.

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 3, 2019

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__edited, Brazil, cell membrane, chemistry, foresight, Intelligent Design, Marcos Eberlin, oxygen, teleology}

An Excerpt from Marcos Eberlin’s Groundbreaking New Book Foresight

_{Andrew McDiarmid

June 3, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid reads from Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose by distinguished Brazilian scientist Marcos Eberlin. In this excerpt, Eberlin introduces the necessity of foresight and planning in nature by showing how every cell needs a sophisticated barrier around it that knows how to keep harmful substances out and let helpful ones in. That membrane’s job is complicated by the fact that oxygen, like many other substances, can be harmful or helpful depending on when, where, and how much. So even the very first cells’ success could only be explained by a designer’s foresight. Foresight, it’s worth noting, has been endorsed by three Nobel Laureate scientists. It’s available for purchase at Amazon and other stores.

Rob Crowther Debriefs Jay Richards on the Dallas Conference on Science & Faith

_{Jay Richards

January 23, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, host Robert Crowther speaks with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards, a speaker at last weekend’s Dallas Conference on Science & Faith. Coming available soon on video, this conference featured Richards, Eric Metaxas, Stephen Meyer, and world-renowned synthetic organic chemist James Tour — plus a surprise guest. For all the great presenters there, though, Richards’ favorite feature of the conference was the thousand attendees — some of them skeptics — who stayed straight through to the close and beyond, asking questions and learning that science, more than ever, supports faith in a designing intelligence.

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
November 20, 2017

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__edited, chemistry, fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Predictions, Privilege Species, Universal Solvent, Water}

How Water’s Chemistry Helps Make Life on Earth Possible

_{Michael Denton

November 20, 2017}

On this episode of ID The Future, we bring you a clip from the documentary Privileged Species a clip arguing that water possesses many unique properties that appear finely tuned to allow for life on Earth. The excerpt dips a toe into what biologist Michael Denton explores in much greater depth in his latest book, The Wonder of Water.