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What Is Intelligent Design? A Thomistic Perspective

Michael Egnor
March 1, 2019
All of nature manifests design. Design is everywhere — in the laws of physics, in quantum mechanics, in biology, in relativistic cosmology, in every crevice of nature. There is little in the universe that is not designed. Accidents do happen, but even accidents are the conjunction of designed events. Two cars colliding at an intersection are designed vehicles driven by intelligent drivers on planned roadways. Chance itself presupposes a framework of design in which chance occurs.  A Thomist might say that design in biology is not qualitatively different from design in quantum mechanics. Both manifest teleology — directedness in act. This has been the root of many Thomists’ critique of ID science. Thomists often claim that ID makes a false distinction between design in …

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Today: Stephen Meyer, Ben Shapiro, and a Mind-Opening Experience

David Klinghoffer
March 24, 2019

David Brooks Forgets to Oppose Some Suicides

Wesley J. Smith
March 23, 2019

Lennox, Marks: Uploading the Mind Would Mean Eternal Death

David Klinghoffer
March 22, 2019

Stephen Meyer on the Ben Shapiro Show This Sunday: God, Intelligent Design, and More

David Klinghoffer
March 22, 2019

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Michael Behe, Revolutionary, Polar Bears and Evolution by Breaking Things

Sarah Chaffee
March 22, 2019
On this episode of ID the Future from the vault, Ray Bohlin and Michael Behe discuss the limits of evolution. Does evolution innovative by building things, or does it only innovate by breaking things? Behe demonstrates the surprising answer with a closer look at polar bears. Behe is the subject of an engaging science documentary now available online: Revolutionary. His new book, Darwin Devolves: The New Science About DNA That Challenges Evolution is available on Amazon.Please consider donating to support the IDTF …

Günter Bechly: Human Evolution’s Once ‘Indisputable Facts’ Now “Dead Theory”

Günter Bechly
March 20, 2019
On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid interviews paleoentomologist Günter Bechly about human evolution, and how the story keeps getting rewritten. The “out of Africa” story was once “indisputable,” but recent evidence has overturned it; it’s now “dead.” The human phylogenetic tree is riddled with question marks. An original human pair is no longer out of the question. So much weakly founded evidence has been oversold in the past, says Bechly, it’s still wise to apply a healthy dose of skepticism toward today’s “indisputable facts” of human evolution. Please consider donating to support the IDTF …

Kepler, Galileo, the Book of Nature, and the First Mathematician

Michael Newton Keas
March 18, 2019
On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid talks with science historian Michael Keas on pioneering mathematical astronomer Johannes Kepler, based on Keas’ new work from ISI Books, Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion. Kepler studied theology before turning to math and science, and it was his belief in God that guided his extraordinary discoveries. “Without an architect who created the world,” he said, “there is no … power in mathematics to make anything material.” Scientists, in his view of God, were thinking the thoughts or ideas that God himself had thought any time they discovered some law or deep pattern in nature. Kepler is just one of a long list of great early scientists, including Galileo, who saw a “book” of God’s …

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Westminster Conference on Science and Faith

Date: April 5 - 6, 2019
Start Time: 6:30PM
Location: Covenant Fellowship Church - Greater Philadelphia, PA
Visit Event Page: http://www.discovery.org/e/5870
Yet again, the Center for Science and Culture, in partnership with the Westminster Theological Seminary, is excited to announce the 2019 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith...

Darwin Devolves: God, Design, and the Failure of Chance in Explaining Origins.

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