The God Question (website here), a TV series bringing together world renowned contributors on both sides of the debate on God and science, asks whether there is design in the Universe. The series features figures of note in the intelligent design community, including Stephen Meyer, Douglas Axe, Bill Dembski, John Lennox, and our own Denyse O’Leary. In addition, the series features leading figures on the other side of the debate, including Peter Atkins, Michael Ruse, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and many others. For a complete list of contributors, see this page. Divided into three programs, dealing with “The Cosmos“, “Life and Evolution“, and “Mind and Consciousness“, the series is spectacularly produced and commendably provides a fair and balanced discussion of Read More ›

More bad news for climate alarmists.    Will the pols still be gullible enough to increase their budgets after all of their climate models are falsified?  Probably.

How do we distinguish systems formed by natural laws, from stochastic processes, and from systems designed by intelligent agents? See Demski’s Explanatory Filter at ARN and at the IDEA Center. Now at Harvard’s Molecular Systems Lab, Peng Yin is currently focused on engineering programmable molecular systems that are inspired by biology, such as the information-directed, self-assembly of nucleic acid (DNA/RNA) structures and devices, and on exploiting such systems to do useful molecular work, such as probing and programming biological processes for imaging and therapeutic applications

“God is an imaginary friend for grownups.” This seems to be one of the materialists’ favorites catch phrases these days.  Last year one group even went so far as to put a version of the phrase on billboards here in Denver. As near as I can tell from my research, the phrase originated in a 2004 Owen Wilson bomb called The Big Bounce.  Wilson’s character Jack is talking to his friend Walter played by Morgan Freeman: Walter:  “Have a little faith.” Jack:  “Faith?  You mean like faith in God?” Walter:  “No, God is an imaginary friend for grownups.” As readers of my posts will know, finding irony is one of my favorite pastimes.  Today we will explore the irony of Read More ›

Favorite atheist thinkers? Bertrand Russell, Nathaniel Branden, Fred Hoyle, Jack Trevors, TJ Rodgers. That said, have any of you met anyone who said, “once I stopped believing in God, I cleaned up my life and became a better person”? Yet I know of many who left their old life after becoming Christians. A pastor of church I once attended was an atheist drug dealer. His name was Lon Solomon: Lon’s life became a relentless search for meaning and purpose. He sought to fill the void he felt on the inside with fraternity life, partying, gambling, and he even developed a serious drinking problem. When all this failed to supply the inner peace he was seeking, Lon became deeply involved in Read More ›