Joshua Swamidass – Uncommon Descent

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Adam and Eve and Swamidass and science — a review

The really remarkable thing is that after all this time and all that rhetoric, Adam and Eve remain a defensible idea.

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The Behe vs Swamidass debate (quality vid)

If you liked the raw feed from the debate, you’ll love this cleaned-up version.

At Texas & M last week: Theistic evolutionist Joshua Swamidass vs. ID proponent Michael Behe

Here’s vid from the Ratio Christi Facebook page of Joshua Swamidass vs. Michael Behe. at the LIVE Veritas Forum 2020: God and/or Evolution.

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Jon Garvey’s new book argues that Adam was one among many early humans

Are these claims really being made to help the theology or to help theistic evolution?

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Free first and last chapters of Joshua Swamidass’s new book on Adam and Eve

IVP will be officially releasing it December 10.

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Nathan Lents plugs Joshua Swamidass’s book on Adam and Eve at USA Today

Actually, it would make way more sense to take Adam and Eve seriously than to take the multiverse seriously, as many atheists do. Everyone is familiar with the type of human behavior Adam and Eve are said to have engaged in. No one knows what a universe that literally makes no sense would be like.

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Jonathan Bartlett: Swamidass gets the Evangelical Statement on AI wrong

Bartlett: Rather than lacking insight into AI issues, this band of theologians is especially sagacious in applying theology to them.

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Webinar: Jonathan McLatchie interviews Joshua Swamidass

On Michael Behe’s new book, Darwin Devolves. Join here. Just a friendly reminder about the webinar I am hosting later today with Joshua Swamidass to discuss Behe’s new book [which Swamidass attacked in Science]. You are welcome to participate anonymously if you want — questions can even be submitted anonymously. We kick off at 3pm Read More…

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Does cancer disprove intelligent design? Two views

So thinks theistic evolutionist Joshua Swamidass at Biologos. It turns out that evolutionary theory is indispensable to understanding cancer. The link I offered above leverages evolution for just this purpose. … From this body of work, we can see the evolution of new functions (new information!), neutral theory, and the effectiveness of obtuse metrics like Read More…

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