Tag: Science and faith

Lighted caves of Cradle of Humankind, a World Heritage Site in Gauteng Province, South Africa, the site of 2.8 million year old early hominid fossil and Mrs. Ples

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Casey Luskin

Date
February 15, 2023

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abrupt appearance, ape-like human ancestors, Ardi, Ardipithecus ramidus, australopithecus, bipedalism, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, Cradle of Humankind, Darwinism, Evolution, great apes, hominid fossils, hominin, homo, homo erectus, homo habilis, Homo naledi, homo sapiens, human evolution, Intelligent Design, Johannesburg, Lucy, paleoanthropology, paleontology, Science and faith, Science and Faith in Dialogue, South Africa, Theism}

New South Africa Book Explores Evidence of Design

_{Casey Luskin

February 15, 2023}

Today’s ID the Future spotlights a new free online ID book from South Africa, Science and Faith in Dialogue, with contributions from Stephen Meyer, Hugh Ross, Guillermo Gonzalez, James Tour, Fazale Rana, Marcos Eberlin, and others. Geologist Casey Luskin joins host Eric Anderson to tell how the new peer-reviewed book came together and to describe the chapter he contributed, “Evolutionary Models of Palaeoanthropology, Genetics, and Psychology Fail to Account for Human Origins: A Review.” Luskin did his PhD in South Africa and had many opportunities to study various hominid fossils. Here he explains why he is convinced that intelligent design far better explains the fossil evidence than does Darwinian evolution.

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

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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 ›

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

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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 ›

Panoramic view of the Earth, sun, star and galaxy. Sunrise over planet Earth, view from space. Elements of this image furnished by NASA

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 24, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Casey Luskin, Circumstellar Habitable Zone, crustal recycling, earth, Earth’s core, Earth’s crust, Earth’s magnetic field, Earth’s mantle, earthlike planets, Geology, Guillermo Gonzalez, habitable planets, How to Build a Habitable Planet, Intelligent Design, Lucky Planet Carl Sagan, Mars, nebular hypothesis, paleomagnetism, planetary science, plate tectonics, rare earth, Science and faith, solar wind, terraforming, terrestrial planets, The Privileged Planet, Venus}

Casey Luskin on the Intelligent Design of Earth for Life

_{Casey Luskin

October 24, 2022

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future geologist Casey Luskin explains how Earth contains many intricate geological processes required for life. He argues that, taken together, this points to intelligent design rather than dumb luck. This episode is the first half of a talk Dr. Luskin presented at the 2022 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. Stay tuned for Pt. 2 and a Q&A with his original audience.

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 10, 2022

Categorized
Intelligent Design

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Bible, Brian Miller, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Judeo-Christian worldview, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, Science and faith, scientific revolution, stewardship, systems biology}

Brian Miller Q&A: Engineering in Biology, and THE Engineer

_{Brian Miller

August 10, 2022

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future, host John West sits down with physicist and engineer Brian Miller to pitch him questions submitted at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith. Is the Bible against the pursuit of knowledge about the natural world, or for it? Are microevolutionary changes in various organisms consistently driven by random mutations and natural selection, or instead, are some made possible by pre-programming in the organism, programming that gives the organism a built-in flexibility to adapt to its environment, within limits? If living systems were deliberately engineered, how good of an engineer was the engineer behind living systems? And if so, what are the implications for the evolution/design debate? Also, what do engineering insights regarding optimization processes 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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Casey Luskin

Date
April 4, 2022

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Adam Shapiro, Brian Josephson, Casey Luskin, complex specified information, DNA, genetic information, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Justin Brierley, Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, Mind and Cosmos, Molecular Machines, Natural Theology, New Atheists, Richard Dawkins, Science and faith, Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction, specified information, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, theistic evolution, Thomas Nagel, Unbelievable?, William Paley}

Casey Luskin and Adam Shapiro Debate Intelligent Design, Pt. 1

_{Casey Luskin

April 4, 2022}

On today’s ID the Future, design theorist Casey Luskin, an editor of The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, and science historian Adam Shapiro, co-author of Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction, debate the meaning and prospects of intelligent design. Here in this first half of their conversation with host Justin Brierley of the Unbelievable? podcast, the focus is on how the term intelligent design is used, or misused, and its relationship to theological issues. The interview is used by permission of Justin Brierley.

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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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Casey Luskin

Date
January 12, 2022

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
ad hoc explanations, biogeography, camera eye, Casey Luskin, cephalopods, coalescence, common descent, common design, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, convergence, Convergent evolution, Emily Reeves, epicycles, evolutionary tree, falsifiability, Falsification, Fossil Record, Homology, human eye, Intelligent Design, lateral gene transfer, new world monkeys, octopus, octopus eye, old world monkeys, phylogenetic tree, primate rafting hypothesis, Science and faith, Simon Conway Morris, sloths, unfalsifiable, universal common ancestry, vertebrate eye}

Casey Luskin: Biogeography Is No Friend of Common Descent

_{Casey Luskin

January 12, 2022

Evolution}

On this ID the Future, geologist Casey Luskin discusses biogeography and the problems it poses for the idea of universal common descent. To make it work, evolutionists have to propose, for instance, that old world monkeys rafted across the Atlantic from Africa to South America on a natural raft. Really? That’s some raft. And how did the monkeys not starve to death? Or die of thirst? They couldn’t drink salty ocean water, after all. And talk about a genetic bottleneck! That’s just one of several problems Luskin raises with the idea that all species gradually evolved from a universal common ancestor. In his conversation with host Emily Reeves, he also touches on the problem of convergence, as when two creatures Read More ›