I am reading Atheist Delusions by David Bentley Hart and set forth a lengthy quote below. The topic of this thread will be Hart’s assertions in the last two quoted sentences. Instead of putting everything in the sometimes hard to read block quote format of WordPress, I notify one and all that everything past this Read More…
Month: May 2009
US government genome mapper Francis Collins fronts new BioLogos theory, preferred to “theistic evolution”
Francis Collins, the US government’s genome mapper, whose book The Language of God I reviewed here, has launched BioLogos, to advocate a sort of rebranded theistic evolution: BioLogos BioLogos is most similar to Theistic Evolution. Theism is the belief in a God who cares for and interacts with creation. Theism is different than deism, which Read More…
Diffusion Entropic Analysis to model natural complex time series vs CSI
Nicola Scafetta has demonstrated that Diffusion Entropic Analysis can identify physical phenomena underlying complex time series, including non-Gaussian Levy and other series. This appears an important development in detecting complex physical phenomena resulting in time series measurements. Scafetta’s work promises to be important in detecting and distinguishing Complex Specified Information from natural complex phenomena. e.g. Read More…
The New Spontaneous Generationists
On this episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith interviews writer Robert Deyes on The New Spontaneous Generationists, who argue that “matter and energy somehow self-originated into complex forms without outside intelligence.” While we may have moved beyond expecting rats to materialize from garbage heaps and maggots from decaying meat, materialists today are trying to Read More…
“Life’s Conservation Law: Why Darwinian Evolution Cannot Create Biological Information”
Here’s our newest paper: “Life’s Conservation Law: Why Darwinian Evolution Cannot Create Biological Information,” by William A. Dembski and Robert J. Marks II, forthcoming chapter in Bruce L. Gordon and William A. Dembski, eds., The Nature of Nature: Examining the Role of Naturalism in Science (Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2009). Click here for pdf of Read More…
Why do evolutionary psychologists exist?
A reader wrote to me to say, I greatly enjoy your writing and I would like to ask your opinion about something I really find puzzling. Well, once someone has decided to praise my writing, how can I resist responding? Anyway, this person goes on to say, My question concerns the so-called “agent detection device” Read More…
Science: Another scientist harassed for incorrect views
A scientist friend writes to say, I am a part of an email list of scientists—another is just beginning an “enquiry” because he committed the crime of loaning DVDs on ID to colleagues who wanted them. No one complained of being harassed, but the person’s views are “incorrect.” Well, that wouldn’t be any news to Read More…