1+ hour, 16+ min ago  (807+ words) The books that filled these shelves, arranged in no special order, came from anywhere and everywhere around the globe. Source When I first started working at Discovery Institute in the fall of 2022, the many bookshelves about the office immediately caught…...

1+ hour, 46+ min ago  (443+ words) Aquinas argues that intelligence is recognized precisely because unintelligent entities achieve purposeful ends only when directed by an intelligence. Source Casey Luskin explained how the scientific arguments presented by Kuebler reflect the mainstream view of the evidence for evolution, which…...

22+ hour, 45+ min ago  (1679+ words) The beginning of the universe doesn't need to be singular, so doubts about a singularity don't need to translate into doubts about a beginning. Source The rumblings and grumblings continue apace, some based on misunderstandings of Stephen Meyer's argument in…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (780+ words) Scientists are not, or should not be, tabloid headline writers. They should only make claims that are strongly supported by evidence. Source A growing number of scientists seek to explain how life began, but few appreciate the underlying philosophical and…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (312+ words) The new theatrical documentary The Story of Everything has challenged the materialistic worldview by presenting scientifically verified evidence that exposes the untenable presuppositions of a closed, purely naturalistic universe. Evidence for the design of the physical universe and life on…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (493+ words) Scientists have discovered a whole suite of parameters and initial conditions appear to be exquisitely tuned to allow for complex life to exist. Source By now, you may be familiar with the fine-tuning argument for intelligent design. Scientists have discovered…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1264+ words) Recently I mentioned that physicist Stephen Barr was wrong to call the origin of humanity "gradual." One of the citations I noted recounts the non-gradual origin of humans. It is a 2000 paper in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution by…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (523+ words) In his book, Kuebler mentions chromosomal fusion as evidence for human-ape common ancestry: chromosome 2 in humans appears to have originated via the ancestral fusion of chromosomes 2a and 2b which are found in other primates. As a result, the order of genes…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (356+ words) While I won't comment on the theology, I do take issue with Professor Barr's scientific claim about the nature of the hominid fossil record as it relates to human origins. Here's what he says: Homo sapiens as a biological species…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (605+ words) We only think we "could have done otherwise" than what we did, claims Sapolsky. From the BBC interview: Acting on something and knowing you could have done otherwise is often necessary and sufficient to decide that free has just happened....