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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.

ET Fred Hickson: 'My position is that the source of guidance is a philosophical question that is impossible to resolve scientifically.... – How could we test universal common...
Silver Asiatic KF So, Meyer is affirming that deists see God as personal. That's certainly one view, but the important thing is... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
Nonlin.org Tlh@2, Actually no. Entropy decreasing is never happening. 2nd law is in fact not a statistical law as believed. Abiogenesis... – Article by David Snoke: Spontaneous Appearance...
Lieutenant Commander Data Jerry 3) Christ started a religion – fairly obvious from the New Testament – nothing in ID says anything about... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
EDTA Frankly, I'm skeptical that the probability of a machine putting a system into a particular state is related to the... – Article by David Snoke: Spontaneous Appearance...
jerry the origin of life represents an unnatural event in the history of our universe Certainly, the four laws of nature... – Eric Hedin: Information and Nature
Fred Hickson SA You replied by saying that climate was not random but rather was “guided by the hand of God”. You... – How could we test universal common...
EDTA Good luck and thank you for all your hard work, Denyse! Welcome Eric! – Eric Hedin is the new News...
EDTA Read Snoke's article a few weeks ago. There is one thing that needs to be explained: In his example of... – Article by David Snoke: Spontaneous Appearance...
kairosfocus F/N: Ch 11 in Meyer, Return of the God Hypothesis: Metaphysics is the discipline of philosophy that addresses the fundamental... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
kairosfocus Relatd, that is why we mark a distinction between a key inference and research programme and the wider design movement.... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
bornagain77 as to: "The information content of the universe exponentially increased with the formation of the first living organism. Since natural... – Eric Hedin: Information and Nature
relatd KF at 139, I get it. But science does get applied, doesn't it? It gets used by people. Until ID... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
ET A great analogy for how evolution has been corrupted by those that choose to conflate evolution and atheism, is how... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
polistra In another context, this sort of talk would be a Conspiracy Theory fit for the loony bin. In a tenured... – Ghostly ‘mirror world’ might be cause...
kairosfocus Relatd, science is shot through with deep philosophical considerations from the outset. However, we can take it that many will... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
kairosfocus JH, a loaded strawman. Disagreement is not lying, speaking with disregard to truth in hope of profiting thereby is lying.... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
JHolo KF: JH, doubling down on corrected error does not transmute what you wish to suggest into truth. Ironically, you appeal... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
relatd Andrew at 130, I encouraged her to examine what she was being told more carefully. – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
asauber "Students expect their teachers to give them factual information about science, about evolution." This is true. Its shameful they are... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
relatd Andrew at 131, Students expect their teachers to give them factual information about science, about evolution. As a kid, I... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...