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2011

Mud-to-Mozart Atheology (Or, Who are the real skeptics?)

I find the “skeptic” claim on the part of Darwinian materialists very interesting and equally illuminating. Darwinists exhibit no skepticism whatsoever about the thesis that physical stuff turned into Mozart by chance. (Don’t try to deny this, Darwinists, that is the essence of your claim. You can try to obfuscate with legion “peer-reviewed scientific papers,” but you’re not going to fool me and many others about what you are actually promoting and advocating.) I choose Mozart not just because I am a classical concert pianist, but because his existence epitomizes everything that Darwinian theory is totally powerless to explain. Darwinists, claiming to be skeptics, actually exhibit the antithesis of skepticism — making transparently ludicrous claims and providing a never-ending stream Read More ›

NT Wright Versus Karl Giberson

NT Wright has cogently argued that evolutionary thinking did not begin in 1859 and Darwin was not an intellectual revolutionary who single-handedly illuminated a new truth. In fact, the evolutionary foundation and framework were already in place “long before Darwin got in a boat and went anywhere.”  Read more

Gene Expression Evolution: Your Daily Teleology …

Here is a new paper that claims to show the rate of gene expression evolution in a range of different mammalian species. Of course the paper shows no such thing. What it does show are gene expression rates in extant species. And what they found is that those rates are all over the map. The rates are often similar, but in other cases the rates not only vary between species, they also vary between organs and even chromosomes. As usual, the evolutionists describe the findings using teleological language to cover over what evolution really says:  Read more

Engineering and Metaphysics 2012 Conference

I thought some of you might be interested in a conference that is happening next year – Engineering and Metaphysics. The goal is to bring together a number of people from a variety of disciplines to discuss the larger nature of reality, and how that applies to engineering practice. The goal is to be along the same lines as the Nature of Nature conference, but focused on engineering applications. Walter Bradley, author of The Mystery of Life’s Origin, will be the plenary speaker for the conference. The website for the conference is here. There is also a call for abstracts for the conference, so if this is a subject area you have an interest in, please submit an abstract! I Read More ›