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Guest Post: Design Detection

Paul Giem provides the following guest post today: The following three pictures were made to represent trays with 560 coins with either white (heads) or black (tails) showing.  At least one of them was created by shaking coins and then spreading them out on a table (actually multiple shakes of 20 or so coins) and copying the pattern of heads and tails produced.  Which one or ones are they, and why?  Were the ones, if any, that were not done by this process designed, and if so by whom, and using what method? 1. 2.   3.        

Eric Metaxas on the unlikelihood of our existence

Yes, that Eric Metaxas: Further to: Anything to get rid of fine tuning: “Reason and science compels us to see what previous generations could not: that our existence is an outrageous and astonishing miracle, one so startlingly and perhaps so disturbingly miraculous that it makes any miracle like the parting of the Red Sea pale in such insignificance that it almost becomes unworthy of our consideration, as though it were something done easily by a child, half-asleep. It is something to which the most truly human response is some combination of terror and wonder, of ancient awe, and childhood joy.” Eric Metaxas – Miracles – pages 55-56 See also:Copernicus, you are not going to believe who is using your name. Or Read More ›