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Sunday, October 7th, 2007Let me be clear. I am not saying the origin of life was simply an extremely improbable accident. I am saying the origin of life was deliberately, purposely arranged, just as the fundamental laws and constants and many other anthropic features of nature were deliberately, purposely arranged. But in what I’ll call [...]
Evolution is anti-religion
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007Periodically I get challenged on my repeated assertion that Evolution, to the (limited) extent it can be called a single theory, is inherently opposed to theism. Mr. Casey Luskin is here today to back me up on this one, having taken the time to summarize some recent examples of this.1 Such statements as [...]
Quote of the day
Thursday, June 21st, 2007“If, as the editors of Nature claim, our minds are merely the product of materialistic evolution, then the opinion that our minds are merely the product of materialistic evolution is itself just the product of evolution.” - Michael Egnor1
In other words, if their theory is true, we cannot know it or prove it, because there [...]
A Design Inference
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006The spread of nuclear weapons, which can never justifiably be used in war, is certainly depressing news. There is, unexpectedly, a lighter side to the news though, however slight. Even the most ardent proponents of materialism are forced to admit that here it is only common sense to look for the difference between [...]
For My Reference
Monday, September 25th, 2006Since I have a propensity to lose track of articles that I have not taken the time to write more fully about, a listing of some of the ones I have neglected.
Catholic News Agency. “Roman Catholic, Orthodox Churches pledge to seek unity” www.catholicnewsagency.com 2006-09-19. http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7648 Ms. Sue Ellin Browder. “Dirty Little Secret: [...]
unprovables
Monday, September 18th, 2006Mr. George Gilder claims that Mr. (Dr.?) Kurt Gödel proved “in essence that every logical system, including mathematics, is dependent on premises that it cannot prove and that cannot be demonstrated within the system itself, or be reduced to it.”[1][2] Does anyone know if that is in fact the case? The proof is [...]
The Human Appendix
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006The other day, Lauren mentioned to me that her anatomy professor was teaching the class that the appendix is a functionless organ. This view, that it is a vestigal organ, a remnant of evolution, is certainly a common one. There is, however, no real reason to believe it. What follows is a collection of articles [...]
Math challenges Darwin
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006I am reminded, if any such reminder were necessary, that mathematics is skeptical of evolution.1 Evolutionary Biologists cannot legitimately bypass the problem of probability by simply stating that the math does not matter. For our existence here does not prove that we got here via evolution. Rather, evolution, as a theory, must demonstrate how [...]
The circular logic of evolution
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006The problem with looking at things as evidence for evolution is that you inevitably start from the assumption that evolution did occur. Thus “x is caused by y because y is the only reasonable evolutionary explanation of x,” and “evolution is true because y causes x.” If you read closely, you can see [...]
Homo Sapiens changes over time
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006Scientists looking at the differences between 14Th Century skulls and modern skulls were surprised to find significant differences.[1] I would like to consider, briefly, something the article does not. If skulls have changed noticeably in the last 650 years, how much more must they have changed in the last 2000 years? In the last [...]
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