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At Mind Matters News: Why believe atheists about God?

Logic and evidence both point to the existence of God, whatever atheists may think: Michael Egnor addresses three arguments in Steve Meyer’s new book, The Return of the God Hypothesis. Read More ›

Alister McGrath imagines Richard Dawkins and C.S. Lewis in conversation

Nathan Muse: Regarding faith and reason, McGrath does an excellent job showing how many of Dawkins’ arguments for atheism can easily be turned on their head to prove the opposite and that this actually tells the reader something about the meaning of life. Read More ›

At Nautilus: How Einstein reconciled religion to science

Actually, despite the article’s title, Einstein didn’t reconcile anything. He said different things at different times to different people. And it didn’t matter. People took what they wanted from it. It sounds as though he didn’t really have a firm opinion. Read More ›

Jonathan McLatchie: What about Carl Sagan’s claim about “extraordinary evidence?”

McLatchie: The problem with the word “extraordinary” here is that it is rarely clearly defined. The mantra that I would adopt instead is that all claims require sufficient evidence. Read More ›

The new John Lennox film, Against the Tide

John Lennox is the Oxford mathematician who wrote 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity (2020), among many other books. "The fascinating biopic tells the story of Lennox's life defending the harmony between science and faith." Read More ›

At Mind Matters News: Believers in God detect patterns more easily

Researchers: ""Individuals who can unconsciously predict complex patterns, an ability called implicit pattern learning, are likely to hold stronger beliefs that there is a god who creates patterns of events in the universe, according to neuroscientists at Georgetown University." Read More ›

Richard Dawkins is getting canceled again

Apparently, when Richard Dawkins said he was an atheist, some people didn’t realize that he rejected Islam along with Christianity. The stark reality is that the post-Christian student does not want to win a debate but rather to cancel it. Read More ›

Christian Scientific Society’s upcoming online seminar: “Is the Natural World Good or Bad?”

Talks include: Stuart Burgess, professor of engineering, University of Bristol, discussing the "bad design" argument (a.k.a. the "Panda's Thumb" argument) and design tradeoffs. Read More ›

Popular Darwinism as a Gnostic religion

Burfeind: Social Gospel preachers gained traction because they rallied earlier communitarian revivalism in opposition to voguish Social Darwinism… Their argument wasn’t against the Theory of Evolution per se… They in essence were saying, "Evolution is on our side.” Read More ›

New “Astrobiological Copernican Limit” claims 36 intelligent civilizations

It’s all malarkey. In the real world, it would be awfully nice to find fossil bacteria on Mars. When that seems to be taking some time, we hear about 36 alien civs. That’s because there’ll always be a market for We Are Not Alone. The thing is, it used to be called religion, not science. And it still IS religion, not science. Read More ›