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Forbidden Question: Common Descent or Common Design?

_{Jonathan Witt
October 22, 2021}

Think of cars. A Tesla and a Cadillac share many features — but of course, none of that means that Teslas blindly evolved from Cadillacs, or vice versa.

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John Lennox Discusses the Beginning of the Universe

07: Big Bang: The Center for Science and Culture; September 15, 2021

The Origin of Life: The Basic Building Blocks: The Center for Science and Culture; August 18, 2021

Apologetics Profile, Pt. 1: Cosmological Evidence: Stephen C. Meyer; June 7, 2021

The Paradigm Project: The Center for Science and Culture; May 4, 2021

ID the Future

Francis Collins, Eye Evolution, and Blind Faith

_{Casey Luskin
October 22, 2021}

On this classic ID the Future, Casey Luskin tackles another neo-Darwinian assertion made by Francis Collins and Karl Giberson in The Language of Science and Faith. There they make an offhand statement that a series of random mutations can lead to such a novel structure as the eye. However, they neglect to give any citation or discuss any evidence to support the claim. Instead of simply accepting the neo-Darwinian explanation of the eye on faith, Luskin leads listeners through an examination of the evidence. As he shows, the more closely we look, the more problems appear for the idea that the eye originated through a process of mindless evolution. For additional evidence that the vertebrate eye was instead intelligently designed, see Read More ›

Life: Fearfully and Wonderfully Fine Tuned

_{Ola Hössjer
October 20, 2021}

Today’s ID the Future spotlights the incredible fine tuning of life. Robert J. Marks hosts Stockholm University professor of mathematical statistics Ola Hössjer and University of Miami population geneticist Daniel Díaz. The three discuss strategies for extending the concept of fine tuning to biological systems, and along the way touch on population genetics, entropy, and probability theory. At the center of the discussion are three technical papers—here, here, and here—each co-authored by one or more of the three members of today’s podcast discussion. This episode is reposted with permission from Mind Matters News, a website of Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. Head over to their podcast site to find the other episodes in this interview Read More ›

Max McLean Talks about His New C.S. Lewis Movie

_{Max McLean
October 18, 2021}

On this ID the Future award-winning actor Max McLean joins host John West to discuss his new film, The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis. West and McLean discuss how McClean came to do stage plays focused on Lewis’s work, and how he and filmmaker Norman Stone came to create a feature-length dramatic film in the midst of the coronavirus shutdown. McLean tells about Lewis’s long and winding conversion from agnosticism to Christianity, and then he and West focus on those aspects of Lewis’s conversion centered on science, evolutionary theory, and rational theism. Key to Lewis’s move from agnosticism to idealism and eventually Judeo-Christian theism—his friend Owen Barfield and the question of the origin of reason. Lewis Read More ›

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Metamorphosis — A Serious Challenge to Darwinian Evolution

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The Colorado Chapter of the Science & Culture Network invites you to join another webinar on one of the greatest challenges to Darwinism. Here is a brief teaser, provided by the chapter: Darwinian Evolution is based on a series of small step-wise changes, each of which increases the survivability of the species. This explanation seems to fit how a species might adapt to small changes in climate or food supply over a long period of time. However, this doesn’t explain major changes to a species’ body plan, especially when the change must occur in a short period of time. Metamorphosis (from caterpillar to butterfly) is one such roadblock, one that seems to be an insurmountable hurdle to the Darwinian model. The complete list of changes that occur in one to two weeks is …

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Design & Designer: The Convergence of Science & Theology

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Given enough time, can bacteria mutate into insects by chance? Can random mutations account for the existence of butterflies and whales and platypuses? What about the origin of the universe or the origin of man’s ability to reason? Come and hear scientists and scholars discuss the limitations of chance and the abundant testimonies to design, as they come to realization from physics to proteins.

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How has Christianity contributed to the rise of modern science? What do the latest scientific discoveries tell us about the existence of God? Can human engineering help us better understand the machinery of life? Explore these questions, and more, at Discovery Institute’s 4th-annual Dallas Conference on Science & Faith on January 22. Whether you join us in person in the Dallas area, or join online via livestream, you’ll hear from speakers like Stephen Meyer, author of Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe, Eric Hedin, author of Canceled Science: Scientific Discoveries Some Atheists Don’t Want You to See, and Casey Luskin, co-editor of The Comprehensive Guide to Science & Faith, among others. For …

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Forbidden Question: Common Descent or Common Design?

Where and What Is Consciousness?

Three Stunners Challenge Traditional Darwinism

Life: Fearfully and Wonderfully Fine-Tuned

Doublethink: Censor of the Year Calls for Free Speech

Self-Replication? Not Even Close

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07: Big Bang

The Origin of Life: The Basic Building Blocks

Apologetics Profile, Pt. 1: Cosmological Evidence

The Paradigm Project