2012

Several UD members joined in on the Engineering and Metaphysics 2012 Conference. The conference was not ID-specific, but it was welcoming to ID-oriented content. The goal of the conference was to look at engineering from a wider perspective, and see how engineering, philosophy, science, and theology can all help each other. There were 11 talks, on topics ranging from architecture to search algorithms and from the physicalism/dualism debate to the problem of natural suffering. It had participants from Canada, the East Coast, the West Coast, and Middle America. Theological perspectives included evangelical, pentecostal, catholic, mainline, agnostic, and Messianic Judaism. The conference was a great success, and I believe we will be doing several more in a similar fashion. There is Read More ›

Dr. Jay Wile is a signatory of the Discovery Institute’s Scientific Dissent from Darwinism. Wile is a prolific writer, and I’m surprised I only ran across his blog Proslogion recently. Here is a sample: Early in my high school years, I was a proud atheist…. All that changed when a young lady who I wanted to date (but who didn’t want to date me) suggested that we go to a debate between atheism and Christianity. I didn’t really want to go to the debate, but I did want to spend time with her, so I went. I was shocked to learn that both debaters were scientists. The atheist was a professor of biology, while the Christian was a professor of Read More ›

Stephen Jay Gould called them our “honest moments.” The truth is, as evolutionists admitted in one paper, “thorny questions remain” not merely regarding minor details of how evolution is supposed to have created all of biology, but of fundamentals such as how replication, metabolism and energy mechanisms arose. As one evolutionist explained:  Read more

David Hume was not expressing a minority opinion when his character Philo triumphantly concluded against creationism because “a perpetual war is kindled amongst all living creatures,” and that nature is arranged so as “to embitter the life of every living being.” The belief that God never would have intended for this bad world reached back to antiquity and continues today. As evolution professor John Avise affirms:  Read more