1+ week, 1+ day ago   (308+ words) The many scientific shortcomings of the evolutionary account force us to confront some logical and philosophical challenges. Source If theistic evolution doesn’t work, and Darwinian evolution is scientifically inadequate, what alternative framework better explains the origin of life and the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (408+ words) Celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is often asked if he believes in God. Typically, his response goes something like this: “So … the more I look around at the world, at the universe, I remain unconvinced.” Or, as he put it…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (393+ words) On Richard Dawkins, arguably the world’s most famous atheist, has spent his career arguing that biology only gives the “appearance of having been designed for a purpose.” In Dawkins’s view, the striking resemblance of living systems to intelligently engineered technology…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (456+ words) However, one thing Franklin was always quite sure of: The universe had a divine Designer. Franklin argues for God’s wisdom from how precisely situated each element of the creation appears to be and how perfectly adapted each animal is to…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (306+ words) As we celebrated 250 years of American independence this past weekend, I was reminded of those famous words of the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (613+ words) Earlier, I wrote a reflection, “Speech, Laughter, and Intelligent Design,” after reading about an open-access study of primate laughter, including human laughter. The authors think that similarities between human and ape patterns in laughter help us understand how human speech…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (565+ words) Consciousness, researchers acknowledge, may resist complete explanation for decades — or longer. However, they argue that the field has matured enough to move beyond simply cataloging brain signals toward building theories that can be tested, challenged, and refined. If that transition…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (1703+ words) This brings us, at last, to the remaining “cyclic” proposal, that of Roger Penrose, which is perhaps the most quixotic of all. Source This is the third installment in my discussion of bouncing and cyclic cosmologies, and the first of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (255+ words) The new film is no longer available in movie theaters, but there are now new ways to stream and share this intriguing documentary. Source The new film The Story of Everything is no longer available in movie theaters, but there…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (669+ words) Earlier, we looked at theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli’s screed against the existence of the mind: “The mind is the behavior of the brain, properly described in a high-level language.” This seems like an odd position for a theoretical physicist to…...