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Video Presentation: Why the Debate Over Intelligent Design Really Matters

I have recently posted a new video presentation on my YouTube channel. In the video I talk about some of the reasons why I think the debate over Intelligent Design and biological origins is of great significance. Aside from just being a fascinating area, it has many implications in several areas of life. This video, Read More…

Intelligent Design

Bill Dembski offers an introduction to Thomas Reid’s Lectures on Natural Theology

Dembski: Reid’s work has undergone a stunning revival of interest since the 1970s, after more than a century and half of neglect—a revival which has only accelerated in the first two decades of the twenty-first century.

JVL Upright BiPed: If JVL is implying that I’ve done something to keep him from being able to respond, he needs... – Bill Dembski offers some thoughts on...
ram Only A Fool Would Let His Enemy Teach His Children – Malcolm X --Ram – Can We Endure?
kairosfocus F/N: Here's the atheists' nightmare, William Lane Craig: You ask, “How can absolute truth be communicated through the medium of... – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...
kairosfocus PS: We can know that we are duty bound prior to establishing a full orbed worldview [as I just further... – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...
kairosfocus WJM, you cited a duty of contractual obligation and a duty of sustaining a lawn that may be an implicit... – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...
kairosfocus MNY, I cited as against known ideological interest. Criterion of embarrassment. Now, let me turn to the SEP Enc of... – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...
jerry There is no duty involved in the 2nd statement Cicero said nothing about watering one's law. So how many fallacies... – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...
mohammadnursyamsu @WJM You've got nothing to complain about against KF, because you yourself also just fantasize the definitions of objectivity and... – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...
polistra The interesting thing about the blob, after I got past the EEEEEEEEWWWWW!!! ICK! response, is its structure. It IS distinctly... – Bryozoa add to Cambrian Explosion’s impact:...
William J Murray KF said: Yet again, the objective evidence of objectors appealing to what they would discredit is manifest. OMG your logic... – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...
mohammadnursyamsu @KF Sure you have the atheist Molyneux, and Wikipedia, to back up your definitions. You reference the worst sources. Your... – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...
bornagain77 And the fine tuning of Dark Energy makes the problem that atheists have with the "fine tuning in the extreme"... – At Mind Matters News: Physicist: Science,...
bornagain77 Seversky remarks that, "Perhaps CNET should stick to technology and not try branching out into science." And perhaps Seversky should... – At Mind Matters News: Physicist: Science,...
kairosfocus MNY, the definition given again for objectivity is anything but an idiosyncratic fantasy as even Wikipedia concedes. KF – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...
mohammadnursyamsu @KF You keep spouting your outrageous nonsense about subjectivity and objectivity, the definitions of which you just FANTASIZE. And then... – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...
martin_r Darwinists, stay sane ... – Proving that they are genuine “sceptics,”...
martin_r ... Earlier Than Thought ... this is Darwinian science ... always wrong ... not to mention, that common ancestors ALWAYS... – Bryozoa add to Cambrian Explosion’s impact:...
martin_r all EDUCATED rational persons with even a BASIC KNOWLEDGE in molecular biology have to admit, that Darwinism failed in a... – At Claremont Review of Books: “The...
kairosfocus SB, so rare to see you these days. KF – Can We Endure?
kairosfocus F/N: I note on the OP: In substituting information for perception, informational realism is able to preserve a common-sense realism... – Bill Dembski offers some thoughts on...
kairosfocus JS: Do you not see that it is NON-circular, non-question begging . . . fallacies against duties to right reason,... – L&FP, 48: [Former?] New Atheist Stefan...