Tag: purpose
Optimism in a Dark Time: Meyer, Lennox, and the “God Hypothesis”
We are living in a dark time. The culture that holds up our nation rocks dangerously, buffeted by the winds of cult-like, nihilistic ideologies.
Excerpt — The Chosen Atom
Many have believed (and many still do believe) that Darwin drove teleology out of biology forever.
Listen: Scott Turner on Evolutionary Biology’s Mechanistic Bias
Viewing the brain as a computer, for example, obscures many things about the brain and the mind that exceed computers, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
Learning Wonder from Denton’s Latest
Around 50 BC Titus Lucretius Carus wrote a long treatise against finding purpose in nature.
Eberlin: “Michael Denton Has Again Sent the Opponents of Cosmic Purpose Scurrying”
“Here we are confronted with definitive findings in favor of a powerful genius who foresaw and precisely orchestrated chemistry as a whole for life.”