Tag: Christianity

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Author
Bijan Nemati

Date
January 4, 2023

Categorized
Intelligent Design

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astrophysics, Atheism, Big Bang, Bijan Nemati, Christianity, Colorado School of Mines, Cornel University, Darwin on Trial, Evolution: a Theory in Crisis, Fred Hoyle, God, Hugh Ross, Intelligent Design, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Islam, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, Lockheed, Lockheed Martin, Michael Denton, NASA Origins program, Natural Theology, observational astronomy, particle physics, Paul Nelson, Phillip Johnson, physics, space interferometer, Stanford Linear Accelerator, telescope array, The Fingerprint of God, The Privileged Planet, Theism, transcendence, University of Colorado, Why It Matters}

Astrophysicist Bijan Nemati on Why Intelligent Design Matters

_{Bijan Nemati

January 4, 2023

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future, astrophysicist and intelligent design proponent Bijan Nemati shares the first part of his story of science and faith. Those who follow Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture may know Nemati from his appearance in the popular ID documentary The Privileged Planet. Born and raised in Iran, he moved to the United States shortly before the Iranian revolution, became an atheist in college, but eventually found his way to a strong religious faith, in part through his exposure to the scientific evidence for intelligent design, first in biology and then in cosmology. Along the way he landed a high-level job with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and became a leading expert in space interferometer telescopes Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
December 19, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
blood clotting, bodily fine tuning, Catholicism, Charles Thaxton, chicken-and-egg problems, Christianity, coherent interdependent systems, CS Lewis Society, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwinism, enzyme evolution, enzymes, Evolution, God, goldilocks principle, hospice medicine, Howard Glicksman, human biology, human body, immunity, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, James Tour, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, philosophical materialism, physiological control mechanisms, random mutations, reproduction, sexual reproduction, Steve Laufmann, systems biology, Theism}

A Physician’s Fantastic Voyage through Your Designed Body

_{Howard Glicksman

December 19, 2022

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future Your Designed Body author and physician Howard Glicksman takes a deep dive with Philosophy for the People podcast host Pat Flynn into Glicksman’s new book, co-authored with systems engineer Steve Laufmann. As Glicksman puts it, he and Laufmann look not just at how the human body looks but at what it actually takes for it to work and not die, and what this implies for evolutionary theory. Begin by piling up the layers of complexity in the human body—the layer upon layer of complex interdependent systems. Then ask hard questions about whether any blind and gradual evolutionary process could have kept our evolutionary ancestors alive at every generational stage as all this was gradually engineered Read More ›

Graceful girl walking with horse and holding reins in hand. Romantic equine and girls silhouette on horse hiking with red rising sun on horizon

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
December 5, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Ann Gauger, biology, Catholic church, Catholic faith, Christianity, Darwinism, Eric Anderson, Evolution, Intelligent Design, MIT, Molecular Machines, Science and faith, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, The Sound of Music, the University of Washington, vocation, zoology}

Ann Gauger: A Scientist’s Circuitous Journey to Faith

_{Ann Gauger

December 5, 2022

Intelligent Design}

On this ID the Future, host Eric Anderson sits down with biologist and intelligent design proponent Ann Gauger to hear her story of how she got into the intelligent design movement and how the evidence for design has shaped her life. It begins with a lonely girl on a Kansas military base who at one point loses her Christian faith but also discovers the wonders of nature, and friendship, when she is given a horse and begins taking it for long rides in the countryside. Her intellectual journey takes her to MIT, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University of Washington, and eventually into the Catholic church, where she explores becoming a nun until a conversation with echoes from the Read More ›

Richard Weikart at the CSC Insiders Briefing 2022

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
October 3, 2022

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
__focus-north, "human zoos", "Olufemi oluniyi", Alt Right, anti-racism, Buffalo mass shooting, Center for Science and Culture, Cesare Lombroso, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Columbine shooting, Darwin Comes to Africa, Darwinian criminology, Darwinian materialism, Darwinian Racism, Darwinism, Eric Harris, Evolution, Evolutionary Ethics, evolutionary theory, genocide, Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting, human exceptionalism, human progress, human zoos, John’s G. West, Might is Right, Museum of Criminal Anthropology, neo-Nazis, nihilism, northern Italians, racial differences, racism, Ragnar Redbeard, Richard Spencer, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, southern Italians, The Descent of Man, Turn Italy, white nationalism}

Darwinian Racism Then and Now

_{Richard Weikart

October 3, 2022

Ethics}

Today’s ID the Future spotlights Darwinian racism, past and present. In this first half of a panel discussion at the 2022 Center for Science and Culture Insider’s Briefing, Darwin Day in America author John West introduces the other panel members, teases an upcoming book, Darwin Comes to Africa, and discusses his experience visiting the Museum of Criminal Anthropology in Turin, Italy, where the work of infamous Darwinian criminologist Cesare Lombroso’s racist ideas about evolution and race are on dramatic display. Then historian Richard Weikart, author of Darwinian Racism, debunks the popular media claim that white nationalist racism in America is a Southern evangelical phenomenon. Weikart shows that the most prominent white nationalists show little if any interest in promoting Christianity, 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
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
Neil Thomas

Date
January 24, 2022

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
agnosticism, Alfred Russel Wallace, Atheism, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinism, Erasmus Darwin, Evolution, fundamentalism, George Eliot, God, H.M.S. Beagle, Hank Hanegraaff, Hank Unplugged, John Milton, Karl Marx, Lawrence Krauss, Mary Ann Evans, memes, methodological materialism, Miracles, Naturalism, Neil Thomas, Oxford University, Paradise Lost, Richard Dawkins, Robert Chambers, Samuel Wilberforce, Satan, Taking Leave of Darwin, theistic evolution, Theory of Evolution, Thomas Huxley, vera causa, William Empson, William Thorpe}

Neil Thomas and Hank Hanegraaff: An Autopsy for Darwinism

_{Neil Thomas

January 24, 2022

Evolution}

Today’s ID the Future kicks off a three-part series featuring Taking Leave of Darwin author Neil Thomas interviewed by radio host Hank Hanegraaff. In this first part, Hanegraaff begins by lauding Thomas’s book and underscoring how influential Darwin’s theory of evolution has been on Western culture. Then Thomas sketches the cultural milieu and individual motivations that he’s convinced drew Darwin toward his formulation of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Here the focus is not on the various evidential weaknesses of Darwin’s theory (which Thomas does cover in his book) but on a question that puzzled Thomas once he became convinced of just how evidentially weak the case for Darwinism was: How was it that a theory so poorly Read More ›

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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
Jay Richards

Date
August 9, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
Atheism, Carl Sagan, Christian charity, Christian invention of hospitals, Christian invention of universities, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, Determinism, false dilemma, Free Will, golden rule, hypocrisy, imago dei, inherent human dignity, James Watt, Judeo-Christian religion, Materialism, moral absolutes, moral code, moral truths, mythology, Pre-Copernican cosmology, self-reliance, survival of the fittest, The Privileged Planet, Theism}

Jay Richards Dismantles Carl Sagan’s Passive Theist

_{Jay Richards

August 9, 2021

Faith and Science}

On today’s ID the Future, philosopher Jay Richards and host Eric Anderson wrap up their conversation about a video where Carl Sagan plumps for atheism. At one point Sagan suggests that if we give up on the belief in God, then we realize that we’re on our own and instead of waiting around for God to save us, we can roll up our sleeves and save ourselves and our planet. Richards notes that Sagan’s argument involves a strawman view of the Judeo-Christian worldview, which is miles apart from the idea of sitting around doing nothing while waiting for God to save us. As Richards and Anderson discuss, it’s no coincidence that the Christian West invented universities, hospitals, and science. What Read More ›