Undeniable (book) – Uncommon Descent

Sale!: Douglas Axe’s book, Undeniable, available on Kindle for $1.99

We checked; it’s Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed (Harper One, 2016). But these sales don’t last.

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Trying to have a discussion when others want a diversion

Douglas Axe talks about a long-running dialogue he has had as a result of his 2016 book, Undeniable , where he can’t seem to get his dialogue partner to focus on what he is saying in his book and not what someone else is saying and what a fourth party is saying about them: But Read More…

jerry Thanks to Animated Dust. Just ordered Os Guinness’s book, “ Time For Truth” In postmodern society, truth no longer exists... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
PyrrhoManiac1 @68 However, as I pointed out @ 52, to me, the fundamental problem with the Christian God (I’m not familiar... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
kairosfocus Origenes, yup. A clue as to what is going on. KF – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus PM1, Marx is simply trying to discredit his critics as class conditioned, but of course HIS reasoning is science. See... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
PyrrhoManiac1 I'm reluctant to get into yet another go-around about Marx or Marxism. All I'll say (for now) is that it's... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes KF @259 It seems that Darwin's horrid doubt about the human mind ONLY comes up when things point to intelligent... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
AnimatedDust CD @ 58: That question is answered very early in the first chapter of Genesis. The short answer is because... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
jerry but why he needed to create it in the first place But He did! So deal with that. Not make... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
chuckdarwin Belfast/58 The qualitative difference, then, between an Abrahamic God, and a universal intelligence, or spirit, or force which runs the... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
AnimatedDust Jerry @ 65: Well said. Either we conform our desires to the truth, or we conform the truth to our... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
PyrrhoManiac1 @58 Thanks, that is a helpful exegesis of Spinoza's position. I would add a few further points, hopefully this clarifies... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
jerry But demanding that scientists prove the unguided OoL by producing life in a lab certainly speaks volumes about the reasoning... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes StephenB Ori: Ted is made by God, so, Ted is a secondary cause. God is the necessary/sufficient cause of the... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
kairosfocus Origenes, PM1 is trying to put a wall of partition between convictions, intuition, reasoning and arguing. This may well reflect... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus PPS, well do I remember the advice that when one gets truly stuck on a geometry problem, take a break,... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes KF ~ Charles Darwin & self-referential incoherence. On the other hand, if we consider the whole universe, the mind refuses... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus PM1, he is tracing the imagined discredit of mind and its convictions to ancestry as he imagines. Notice, he does... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus F/N: I should add from Marx, Communist Manifesto, Ch 2: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm But don’t wrangle with us so long as you... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
jerry It’s interesting the extent to which people will make up gobbledygook in order to justify being against something. The universe... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
PyrrhoManiac1 In re: 251 and 253, I really do think you are badly misreading what Darwin is actually saying. He is... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes DogDoc @56 I think it might help for you to reconsider each of these questions, but instead of asking how... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...