Tag: Pantheism

Night scene of the Milky Way and stars at Zion National Park

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
March 15, 2023

Categorized
Physics and Cosmology

Tagged
astrobiology, Atheism, correlation between habitability and discoverability, cosmic fine tuning, cosmic habitable age, deism, discoverability, earth-like planets, exoplanets, extra-terrestrial life, fine tuning, Galactic Habitable Zone, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, local fine tuning, Pantheism, perfect solar eclipses, rainbows, red dwarf stars, science-friendly universe, sun-like stars, The Privileged Planet, Theism}

A Privileged Place for Life and Discovery

_{Guillermo Gonzalez

March 15, 2023

Physics and Cosmology}

On this ID the Future host and geologist Casey Luskin continues his conversation with astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez about the many ways Earth’s place in the cosmos is fine tuned for life. In this second half of their conversation, Gonzalez zooms out to discuss the galactic habitable zone and the cosmic habitable age. Luskin says that the combination of exquisite cosmic and local fine tuning strongly suggests intelligent design, but he asks Gonzalez whether he thinks these telltale clues favor theism over deism? That is, does any of the evidence suggest a cosmic designer who is more than just the clockmaker God of the deists who, in the words of Stephen Dedalus, “remains within or behind or beyond or above his 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
Jay Richards

Date
August 2, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
agnosticism, Aristotle, Atheism, book of nature, C.S. Lewis, Carl Sagan, Copernican Principle, cosmic beginning, cosmos, discoverability, earth, eternal universe, extrasolar planets, fifth element, fine tuning, founders of modern science, Galileo, general revelation, Gloria Patri, habitability, Intelligent Design, Jay W. Richards, Kepler, Materialism, pale blue dot, Pantheism, Pre-Copernican cosmology, Psalm 19, purpose, Science and faith, scientific revolution, space exploration, The Privileged Planet, Theism}

Jay Richards: Before Carl Sagan Said It, Science Debunked It

_{Jay Richards

August 2, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future, Privileged Planet co-author Jay W. Richards sits down with host Eric Anderson to discuss the gold rush of extrasolar planet discovery and how the Privileged Planet hypothesis has held up since 2004. Richards teases an anniversary edition of The Privileged Planet in the works, and he and Anderson discuss the statement that Carl Sagan is perhaps most famous for. Richards explains how science had already disproven the famous Sagan claim by the time the astronomer first uttered it to millions of viewers in his documentary series Cosmos.

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 28, 2021

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Adolf Hitler, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, colonialism, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Haeckel, Eugenics, From Darwin to Hitler, Herbert Spencer, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, Jeffrey O’Connell, Michael Ruse, Pantheism, racism, Richard Weikart, Social Darwinism, struggle for life, struggle for survival, survival of the fittest, The Death of Humanity, World War I, World War II}

Richard Weikart Reviews New Book on Social Darwinism

_{Richard Weikart

April 28, 2021

Ethics}

In today’s ID the Future historian Richard Weikart (Cal State Stanislaus) dissects a new Cambridge University Press book on social Darwinism by Jeffrey O’Connell and Michael Ruse. Weikart, author of Hitler’s Ethic, From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Religion, and The Death of Humanity,* says that a major shortcoming of the new book is the authors’ attempt to put as much distance as possible between Darwin and eugenics thinking, and between Darwin and Hitler. The new book paints Darwin follower Herbert Spencer as the eugenics-championing bad guy and posits that Darwin and Darwinism had little or no influence on Hitler’s warped master race ethic. Weikart patiently highlights some key evidence to the contrary, statements front and center in Hitler’s writing. Did Read More ›

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Author
Michael Newton Keas

Date
April 20, 2020

Categorized
Culture, Science

Tagged
__edited, anthropomorphizing nature, Baruch Spinoza, book of nature, cosmos, divinizing nature, Galileo, Giordano Bruno, heresy, Materialism, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Pantheism, scientific revolution, Theism}

New Cosmos Series Plumps for Pantheism, Distorts History

_{Michael Newton Keas

April 20, 2020

Culture, Science}

On this episode of ID the Future, host and philosopher Jay Richards interviews science historian Michael Keas about the National Geographic channel’s new Cosmos series with Neil DeGrasse Tyson. In the Cosmos episode under discussion, the 17th century philosopher Baruch Spinoza is presented as an early advocate for science.

How Darwinian Evolution Informed Hitler’s Ethics

_{Richard Weikart

November 8, 2017}

On this episode of ID The Future, Tod Butterfield talks with historian Dr. Richard Weikart about his new book Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Beliefs that Drove the Third Reich. In this episode, Dr. Weikart explains how Darwinian evolution informed Hitler’s ethics.

Hitler with General Guderian and Field Marshal Keitel in Rügenwalde, Germany, 19 March, 1943

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
November 6, 2017

Tagged
__edited, Christianity, Creationism, Darwinism, Evolution, Hitler, Hitler’s Religion, Mein Kampf, Nature, Nazism, Pantheism}

Was Hitler a Creationist? Hitler Historian Says No.

_{Richard Weikart

November 6, 2017}

On this episode of ID The Future, Tod Butterfield talks with historian Dr. Richard Weikart about his new book Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Beliefs that Drove the Third Reich. Here Dr. Weikart explores the claim that Hitler was a creationist and shows why it misses the mark.