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News

Big Bang: While the West Reeled

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May 4, 2024
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While the West reeled from America’s stock market crash of 1929, another crisis was brewing in the field of cosmology.

Video

C.S. Lewis on Evolution and Intelligent Design with John West (2024 Dallas Conf. on Science & Faith)

The MYTH of Junk DNA (Long Story Short, Ep. 12): The Center for Science and Culture; March 26, 2024

Roundtable on Human Uniqueness: John G. West; March 25, 2024

Stephen Meyer & James Tour talk Lee Cronin & Assembly Theory: James Tour; March 22, 2024

The Mystery of Human Sexuality: Mark Garcia; March 21, 2024

ID the Future

Why The Heart of the Matter is Information

_{William A. Dembski
May 3, 2024
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If information, not matter, is the basic stuff of reality, how would this change the way we look at the world? On a classic episode of ID the Future from the vault, Center for Science and Culture Managing Director John West sits down with mathematician and philosopher Dr. Bill Dembski to discuss his 2014 book Being as Communion: A Metaphysics of Information. Building on his previous books making a case for intelligent design, Being as Communion presents a metaphysical framework for an informational world that can accommodate intelligent design. In Part 1, Dembski defines information and explains why it's more important than matter.

Stephen Meyer on Isaac Newton and the Scientific Revolution

_{Stephen C. Meyer
May 1, 2024
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On this ID The Future, we're pleased to bring you a longer-form conversation between philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer and Rice University chemist and professor Dr. James Tour about Sir Isaac Newton and his influence on modern science. Dr. Meyer explains why the scientific revolution occurred when and where it did. He also describes Newton's singular contributions to science and his lasting legacy. This interview originally aired on The Science and Faith Podcast. We are grateful to Dr. Tour for permission to share it.

A Reading From The Big Bang Revolutionaries

_{Jean-Pierre Luminet
April 29, 2024
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While the West reeled from America's stock market crash of 1929, another crisis was brewing in the field of cosmology. One of the most ambitious scientific theories in history--that the universe had a beginning--was beginning to take shape, ushering in a new cosmological paradigm. But the real heroes of the Big Bang revolution have been largely forgotten. A new book from Discovery Institute Press amends the record and tells the remarkable story. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid reads an excerpt from The Big Bang Revolutionaries, by distinguished astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet.

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2nd-Annual Polish Conference to Feature Three Discovery Institute Fellows

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On June 3-4 at the Royal Castle of Krakow-Niepolomice in Poland, Discovery Institute Fellows Douglas Axe, Brian Miller, and Jay Richards will join Dominican friar, university professor, and author Michał Chaberek to present on the scientific theory of intelligent design and its implications for faith in God. This 2nd-annual conference, Faith & Science in the Age of Secularization, will explore the “Return of the God Hypothesis” — a theme borrowed from the title of Stephen Meyer’s latest book. According to the conference organizers, this event will address four questions that modern science cannot resolve without the help of theology — the origin of the universe, the origin of cosmic fine-tuning, the origin of life, and the origin of biodiversity. Unlike many …

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C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society

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The C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society will explore the growing impact of science on politics, economics, social policy, bioethics, theology, and the arts during the past century. The program is named after celebrated British writer C.S. Lewis, a perceptive critic of both scientism and technocracy in books such as The Abolition of Man and That Hideous Strength. Topics to be addressed include the history of science, the relationship between faith and science, the rise of scientific materialism, the debate over Darwinian theory and intelligent design, evolutionary conceptions of ethics, science and economics, science and criminal justice, stem cell research and abortion, eugenics, family life and sexuality, ecology and animal rights, climate …

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Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences

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The CSC Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences will prepare participants to make research contributions advancing the growing science of intelligent design (ID). The seminar will explore cutting-edge ID work in fields such as molecular biology, biochemistry, embryology, developmental biology, paleontology, computational biology, ID-theoretic mathematics, cosmology, physics, and the history and philosophy of science. The seminar will include presentations on the application of intelligent design to laboratory research as well as frank treatment of the academic realities that ID researchers confront in graduate school and beyond, and strategies for dealing with them. Although the primary focus of the seminar is science, there also will be discussion on worldview …

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Center for Science and Culture

News

Big Bang: While the West Reeled

Casey Luskin Versus Dan Stern Cardinale: A Wonderful Debate About “Junk DNA”

Stephen Meyer Interview with Piers Morgan: Science, God, and the Loss of a Parent

Fossil Friday: Kinorhyncha, Yet Another Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion

“Junk DNA” from Three Perspectives: Some Key Quotes

Being a Bat: Some Scientists Push Animal Consciousness

Video

The MYTH of Junk DNA (Long Story Short, Ep. 12)

Roundtable on Human Uniqueness

Stephen Meyer & James Tour talk Lee Cronin & Assembly Theory

The Mystery of Human Sexuality