“G. K. Chesterton wrote, ‘It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith.'”
Tag: Eric Hedin
“Every Cell Comes from a Preexistent Cell”
C. S. Lewis: “Is it not equally reasonable to look outside Nature for the real Originator of the natural order?”
Supernovae and Black Holes
“Black holes remind us of the delicate balance within the forces of nature.”
At The College Fix: Canceled intelligent design professor returns to Ball State U. with message: ‘God’s Not Dead’
College Fix: A physics professor whose class considering intelligent design thrust Ball State University into the national spotlight years ago is scheduled to return to his old campus, which had shut down his popular “Boundaries of Science” course.
Evolution and Imagination
Does the committed evolutionist unconsciously impute their imagination into the supposed biological outworkings of the laws of nature?
The Drake Equation and Extraterrestrial Life
“It’s becoming increasingly clear that truly habitable planets are likely to be exceedingly rare among the stars in our galaxy.”
Natural Sources of Information?
Sources of natural energy (sunlight, fire, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.) universally destroy complex specified information, and never create it.
Intelligent Design and the Designer – an Opinion
Eric Hedin writes: In arguing for intelligent design for the origin of life, exhibited in the millions of species found on Earth, what is the role of the Designer? Evolution, if merely defined as “change over time,” matches the evidence found in nature. But that doesn’t mean that the “evolution” happened by purely natural mechanisms. Read More…
Life from a rock?
The level of information found within a seed can only come from a mind so far above our own that to ascribe it to God is not a statement of religion, but of logic.
Beauty and Naturalism
Physicist Eric Hedin: “The failure to make significant progress on the standard model of particle physics may stem from a misguided concept of beauty.”
Eric Hedin: Information and Nature
The question of the significance of human existence comes sharply into focus as we consider the origin of life itself. Do the laws of nature support the origin of life from nonlife, or do they argue against it?
Eric Hedin is the new News co-ordinator at Uncommon Descent
Starting tomorrow, Denyse O’Leary is retiring from the News desk at Uncommon Descent. Physicist Eric Hedin replaces her.
David Klinghoffer muses on the (almost) Cancelation of physicist Eric Hedin
Klinghoffer: Hedin’s persecutor, Jerry Coyne, “was a prominent academic, enjoying maximum career safety at the University of Chicago. Let’s be honest: between the two, there was no contest. Coyne could move against Hedin without fear, and he did. On the other hand, Hedin’s career was on the line, and both knew it.” Sounds like Darwinism as she is spoke.