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Can you distinguish photoshopping vs nature?

RomanM has a fascinating challenge. Out of seven photos at: MyPics Which one was not manipulated by Photoshop?

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Can SETI’s algorithm detect intelligence?

TED granted Jill Tartar her wish to: “empower Earthlings everywhere to become active participants in the ultimate search for cosmic company”. TED and Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has set up SETIQuest.org to: . . . make vast amounts of SETI data available to the public for the first time. It will also publish Read More…

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Do We Need God To Do Science?

Premier Radio, one of the UK’s leading Christian radio stations, has been featuring several interviews/debates in recent weeks on matters related to ID, some of which have been flagged here and here. The most recent one bears the title of this post and was aired last weekend (6th Feb), in which I debated the question Read More…

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How were RNA gene repeats, “essential” to DNA repair, formed?

RNA replications have now been discovered to be “essential” to DNA error correction systems. If they are “essential”, how could they arrive by random mutation and “selection”? On what basis does neoDarwinism predict error correction in the first place? From Intelligent Design, methodology one expects to see evidence of design in complex biochemical systems. From Read More…

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Happy New Year: Top ten Darwin and design stories I

From Dennis Wagner at Access Research Network: We just released our annual review of the top Darwin and Design science news stories for 2009: Here. Its fun to reflect back on all that has happened this year. We plan to release our top 10 ranking of these stories tomorrow with a press release. We are Read More…

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Do humans influence temperature records?

Can the methods of Intelligent Design be brought to bear to detect anthropogenic influence in temperature records? Core to the climate debate is the danger of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming. We hear of “tipping points” promising coast lands drowning in glacial melt. Defining “very likely” as > 90%, the IPCC’s Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report Read More…

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Coffee!: Here’s an interesting design inference re a historic photo

The cloud patterns in two photos taken during the Spanish Civil War are identical, according to a column by George Will: In a slightly less dramatic photo of another falling soldier, taken by Capa at the same time – the cloud configuration is the same as in “Falling Soldier” – the soldier falls on the Read More…

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Coffee!! Politician “gets” the design inference

Yes, I know. It’s almost unbelievable, but … Ontario’s premier, Dalton McGuinty did get it, recently. Ontario is a province of Canada that runs a lottery, one that has become a swamp of corruption problems. Basically, if the lottery winners comprise a grossly disproportionate number of people who sell tickets, the “random” stats don’t work any Read More…

relatd Origenes at 177, God sees all and knows all. He knows, before it happens, who will do wrong and who... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
Origenes Relatd @176 Like you, I am a theist who cannot imagine being wrong about it. However, Aquinas argues for a... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
relatd Origenes at 175, Where does Aquinas say that? God creates souls and men, however, He gave us free will. The... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
Origenes StephenB @172 ... there is only ONE ARCHITECT of Ted Bundy’s choices and that would be Ted Bundy. He is,... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
Origenes StephenB @170 Ori: The actions of B cannot be a separate entity from B, instead they are an inextricable aspect... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
relatd SB at 72, Man has two choices: Man is the ultimate reference point. So man prefers the words of other... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
StephenB SB: The broader point, which I have made previously, is that moral choices are the product of a multiplicity of... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
kairosfocus F/N: it should be clear that the design inference is an inference to a key causal factor. As such, it... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus Sandy, moral principles are built in and attested to by conscience. We often feel them most directly when we have... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus F/N: try restarting your PC, you may have entered an odd state. KF – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus Jerry, we must understand the mindset we are dealing with. The design inference on good signs is solid. That is... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
relatd Ba77, As I'm sure you know, Darwinist ideas must be promoted at all costs or God gets back into science,... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
jerry the issue is not merits, rights, publications etc. It is, that we have determined lawless ideological oligarchs who have wormed... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Sandy ideological oligarchs who have wormed their way into influence and power who — lawless — are ruthless, vindictive and cruel.... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes KF @ 82, PM1 @83 KF: These poof magic emergentists reject the PSR. Absolutely. That is their thing. PM1: I... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
jerry Interesting, I am finding the inability to edit a comment on the computer I have with me while away. Usually... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes StephenB @165 SB: The broader point, which I have made previously, is that moral choices are the product of a... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
bornagain77 OT: Mama Bear Apologetics: Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies by Hillary Morgan Ferrer https://www.amazon.com/Mama-Bear-Apologetics-Empowering-Challenge/dp/0736976159/ “I’m thrilled to see... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus PM1, Chalmers has put his finger on the problem, there is a magickal ideology of poof, emergence and once the... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus Jerry, the issue is not merits, rights, publications etc. It is, that we have determined lawless ideological oligarchs who have... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
jerry That’s not to say that therefore strong emergence is a hopeless concept Of course it's hopeless. It is self refuting... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...