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Meyer-Krauss debate live in Toronto 7:00 pm EST, 4:00 pm PST

Denyse O'Leary
March 19, 2016
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Pro ID Steve Meyer. No ID Larry Krauss.

As noted here, and live streamed:

A discussion of Evolution, Intelligent Design and Creation, featuring Lawrence Krauss, Stephen Meyer and Denis Lamoureux. Live at Convocation Hall in the University of Toronto. Sponsored by Wycliffe College in partnership with Faith Today, Power to Change, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries and the Network of Christian Scholars.

Questions like these will be posed to the panel:

How did the universe originate?

Does God play any role in the cosmos?

What is the relationship between science and religion?

Readers have probably heard of Steve Meyer and Larry Krauss.

More.

Lamoureux is a Canadian U Alberta religion and science prof, and this story gives some sense of his approach.  There is progress  indeed if religion-and-science meets make clear that ID is not a form of  God-and-science, like BioLogos. It’s a question of evidence.

 

 

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I did enjoy the presentation by Lamoureux.Mung
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Meyer could have done a better job anticipating the "evolution is not random" objection to his analogy of a bicycle thief trying to open a combination lock. But for all we know it was in his notes. He was flying blind there for a while. I hope he doesn't drive with those migraines.Mung
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It's really a shame that Meyer was suffering from a migraine. I attempted to add my commentary over the live stream, to help supplement Meyer's points and offer opinions. Link if anyone's interested: https://youtu.be/WYOfy9_buO8 In particular, I think Demski's conservation of information would have been tremendously helpful, especially when Krauss made a big blunder by attacking a claim that he thought was a blunder: that evolution is random. Even while an iterative process, like evolution, has elements that are non-random, like selection, Dembski's conservation of information states that algorithmic searches do not actually perform any better than random searches (examples which suggest otherwise can be, and have been, analyzed to quantify their "active information"). So for all intents and purposes, it is indeed entirely credible to say that the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection acting on random mutation is "random," in that it performs no better than random search.bloodymurderlive
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Lawrence Krauss is such a weasel. He comes right out with a lie and somehow gets away with it. It is a lie that Google's AlphaGo program uses an evolutionary algorithm. Kraus continually spews out personal opinions as if they were facts. For example, he asserts that there is a lack of evidence for design in nature when, in fact, everything in nature is screaming evidence for design.Mapou
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