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Origin-of-Life Theorists Fail to Explain Chemical Signatures in the Cell
Stephen Meyer’s challenge remains one of the most enduring and potent challenges to materialistic accounts of the origin of life.
Richard Dawkins’s English Inquisition
There are several funny things about the interview Dawkins gave the BBC to describe his new “scientific” survey.
“The Link,” or Science Fiction Double Feature: Dr. X Builds a Creature…
Almost every TV channel it seems ran a commercial announcing a documentary about the fossil find of the century, The Link, which will be encored on the History Channel tonight.
Intelligent Design and the Artist’s Soul (Part 1)
Editor’s Note: This is crossposted at Professor Scot McKnight’s Beliefnet blog, Jesus Creed. In his article “Five Streams of the Emerging Church,” Scot McKnight identifies with Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger’s description of emerging Christians. One of the nine hallmarks of such Christians, according to the authors, is that they “create as created beings.” And it is this theme I would like to explore with reference to Darwinian evolution and intelligent design (ID) in a series of three posts. First, we will consider how to consider ID. Second, we’ll assess conceptions of God in this debate. And third, we will reflect upon aesthetics and Darwinian theory. What to make of intelligent design? Years ago, before I had heard of Neil Read More ›