To be held at Hughes Hall, Cambridge University.
Full details are here:
Book here. Note: It doesn’t cost a lot but tickets are limited.
Conference Description
Since Darwin, biology has been dominated by a bottom-up, materialistic framework in which living things are ultimately derived from undirected physical processes — at the origin of life itself — and then change via random variations sifted by natural selection (or drift) throughout three billion years of organismal evolution. Within the past three decades, however, the sufficiency of this materialist framework has been strongly challenged by unexpected evidence.
- What if information, and not physical or material causes, provides the key to understanding biology?
- What are the principles governing the origin and transmission of biological information?
- Does materialism restrict our intellectual freedom to explore the full landscape of causal possibilities?
- Do recent scientific discoveries provide evidence that human beings are more than mere animals?
Join us on Saturday, 12 November 2016 as scientists and scholars from the UK, the United States, and Europe explore these and other questions at the Beyond Materialismconference at Hughes Hall, a college in the University of Cambridge, as venue.
Dr Douglas Axe
Dr Geoff Barnard
Dr Günter Bechly
Rev. Dr Alistair Donald
Dr Ann GaugerUSA
Israel
Germany
UK
USADr Ola Hössjer
Dr Stephen Meyer
Dr Brian Miller
Dr Paul NelsonSweden
USA
USA
USA
Meanwhile, the Royal Society meeting on New trends in evolutionary biology: biological, philosophical and social science perspectives is Monday 7 – Wednesday 9 November 2016 at the Society’s headquarters in London.
Some of us are amazed that the Royal Society is even holding a genuine “new trends” meet. One remembers back to the days when a new trend meant nothing more than a new fix for papering over the cracks in Darwinism. More on that another time.
See also: How will rethinking Darwin affect the ID community?
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‘Since Darwin, biology has been dominated by a bottom-up, materialistic framework in which living things are ultimately derived from undirected physical processes — at the origin of life itself — […]’
Seeing it described with such erudite and pithy precision makes it seem all the more comical !
Axel @ 1: Very comical indeed. The good news is that such stupidity is now being openly challenged and debunked. Glad to be alive to see the slow collapse of the fraudulent pseudoscience known as Darwinian evolution.
I think one of the best forms of materialism was the form that was developed by the ancient Greeks. Here is a brief descriptions from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/atomism-ancient/
Why do I think it was one of the best? Because it was very prescient and it hasn’t been improved on much since. However, just because I believe that it was one of the best doesn’t mean that it was any good. Indeed as a philosophical world view materialism (both the ancient and modern forms) creates more questions than it answers– metaphysically, epistemologically and scientifically. Furthermore, to accept it you have to believe it by faith, the same kind of faith you would need to believe in theism, which has far more explanatory power and scope.
As far as the reigning philosophy of materialism in biology is concerned, that antiquated materialistic philosophy is being directly challenged by the empirical evidence coming from the new field of Quantum Biology. Jim Al-Khalili, co-author of “The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology (2015)”, puts the current situation in biology like this:
Just how far off base the materialistic philosophy is as to providing a correct understanding of the most foundational level of molecular biology, and many experiments demonstrating the foundational role that quantum mechanics plays in molecular biology, is touched upon in the following video:
Finding Quantum Mechanics to be playing such a vital role at the very foundation of molecular biology simply is not compatible to the reductive materialistic framework that mainstream biology, particularly Darwinian evolution, currently rests upon:
Whereas finding quantum mechanics at the very foundation of biology is devastating to those who prefer the materialistic philosophy to be true, those who are of the Theistic persuasion are comforted by the fact that Quantum Biology provides direct evidence for the belief that we do indeed have a transcendent component to our being. Namely, Quantum Biology provides very suggestive evidence that we do indeed have a ‘soul’:
Verse:
Here is a fairly deep question that I wish researchers would take more seriously: “,,, the question, rather, is why things don’t fall completely apart — as they do, in fact, at the moment of death. What power holds off that moment — precisely for a lifetime, and not a moment longer?”, i.e. Exactly what is it that makes the countless trillions of biological molecules in a human body cohere as a single unified whole for precisely a lifetime and not a moment longer?
Off Topic: The best way to see life is intelligently designed is to just look at it up close. —
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