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The Problem With Most Theological Doctrines and the Theological Argument for Mental Reality

In most theologies, it is said that God created the material world. It is also said that God is (1) omnipresent, (2) omnipotent, and (3) omniscient; that God knows the future and the past. It is also said that God is an unchanging, eternal, immaterial being and the root of all existence. Unless God is Read More…

Intelligent Design

Miracles: Can They Happen?

A few days ago we had a post on Science, Miracles, and Benny Hinn, highlighting portions of Bill Dembski’s new online book The Faces of Miracles. It seems appropriate this time of year to consider miracles. After all, in the Christian world, this month we’re celebrating an event that can only be described as a Read More…

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Two plus two equals five is not good theology in a rational universe

Some of us try not to wade into theology as such very much for the same reasons as we try to avoid taking a whack at the tarbaby. Where theology is directly relevant – for example if someone claims that there is an “artistic license to lie” about traditional religious ideas about the universe, well, Read More…

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ID as ‘Science of God’ (aka Theology)

A piece of mine has been just published in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC’s) excellent Religion and Ethics website. It provides a larger context for my own theologically positive approach to ID, which I realize is not everyone’s cup of tea. However, like Gregory Sandstrom, I welcome johnnyb’s intervention, which raises the issue of which Read More…

EDTA Sev, >Owls can also see way better in the dark than we can. How come The Designer gave them better... – Airplane wing design: Design in nature...
EDTA WJM, >Imagine “nothing.” What is it? Blackness? Whiteness? A space absent of color and objects? All those are still things.... – Remember how endless cycles of universe...
Belfast @Seversky “ In other words, no one has any idea why we weren’t designed with better eyes as well as... – Airplane wing design: Design in nature...
bornagain77 CD, Penrose ignores his present high level critics as well as ignoring the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem Penrose and His Critics Yet... – Why Roger Penrose’s cosmological theory doesn’t...
PaV Dogdoc: So here again, there is absolutely no possible observation that is excluded by ID – per the reasoning in... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
jerry Far be it from me to defend ID as a valid scientific theory You are playing games. I didn’t ask... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
PaV DogDoc@21: [ . . . ]my point was just that there is nothing in ID Theory that excludes the possibility... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
jerry other words, no one has any idea why we weren’t designed with better eyes as well as better brains As... – Airplane wing design: Design in nature...
chuckdarwin Penrose won the Nobel Prize just a few months ago. So, I wouldn’t be quite so dismissive. He’s not the... – Why Roger Penrose’s cosmological theory doesn’t...
dogdoc Nonlin, Actually you can’t. Unsupported disagreements are not science. You’re confusing science with democracy. Perhaps this explains your reference to... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
Nonlin.org @69 Actually you can't. Unsupported disagreements are not science. You're confusing science with democracy. Perhaps this explains your reference to... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
bornagain77 Sev: "Owls can also see way better in the dark than we can. How come The Designer gave them better... – Airplane wing design: Design in nature...
dogdoc Jerry, ID is not a theory. If anyone believes it is a theory, then describe the theory. Far be it... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
Origenes WJM @ Under MRT, what is an individual? I take it that the individual is not one thing on its... – Why (some) physicists think a multiverse...
Nonlin.org @65 You can't just "disagree" in science. And in fact you're "not even wrong" as you're not replying to my... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
Lieutenant Commander Data If one could show randomness capable of creating the patterns we get from ID, that would falsify ID. Both theists... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
Lieutenant Commander Data An atheist shouldn't talk about logic and mathematics because both are used to create codes(like DNA) so both exist before... – Remember how endless cycles of universe...
Seversky In other words, no one has any idea why we weren't designed with better eyes as well as better brains – Airplane wing design: Design in nature...
jerry suppose I was under the impression that Intelligent Design Theory was a theory, because, you know, the name I repeat... – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
Belfast @Zweston. I can’t fathom Pearlman either. I think his reference is to the Young Earth model. But if that is... – Why Roger Penrose’s cosmological theory doesn’t...
jerry I don’t see the problem with giving us better eyes as well as better brains One of the more stupider... – Airplane wing design: Design in nature...