Center for Science and Culture
In Children of Light, biologist Michael Denton shows how the universe was tailored from its inception for “light eaters” — creatures with high-acuity vision like ours, depending as we do on plant-based nutrition, entailing photosynthesis. This is intelligent design that sweeps the planet, covering not biology alone, but chemistry, geology, and physics.
Unfortunately, the pictures we have of the Seminar need to be severely cropped, so as to protect the students’ identities.
Beauty does not come from randomness. It is beauty, not ugliness that must be explained.
If he chose to, could God use a sandstorm to turn a block of marble into a representation of the human form that would put Michelangelo’s David to shame?
A central progressive theme was historicism, crediting history almost exclusively with the development of culture.
Most of us think of science as the enterprise of seeking truth by formulating hypotheses and testing them against the evidence. This is empirical science.
The paradigm of cladistic classification based on assumed common ancestry should be reconsidered in favor of a traditional phenetic classification based on maximum similarity.
I think it’s the first time I’ve heard a discussion of the second of law thermodynamics on cable TV.
This is one key issue on which proponents of ID and of theistic evolution differ.
Anyone interested in the grim history of Social Darwinism in America, or debates over scientific racism and the sanctity of human life, will want to see this documentary.