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Over at Alan’s fine blog, I’ve been debating on and off with a Darwinian. Here, for what it’s worth, is my side of the exchange:steve said...rintintin said...“Maybe the supernatural effector wouldn't even need to be a deity, since we don't actually know anything about the possibilities that exist in the supernatural world.”You’ve obviously not done any reading in theistic modal metaphysics.“It's interesting what you are willing to attribute ...

Rupert Sheldrake shares a few words about his brief meeting with Richard Dawkins, concluding: "Should science be a vehicle of prejudice, a kind of fundamentalist belief-system? Or should it be a method of enquiry into the unknown?"Speaking of Dawkins, some peeps might be interested in a debate he had with John Lennox, too.

In my previous post on DNA, I mentioned the following argument:A) DNA is information.B) Information cannot arise from a random, non-directed process.C) Darwinism requires DNA to have arisen from a random, non-directed process.D) Therefore, Darwinism cannot explain DNA.In my first post, I demonstrated A) DNA is information. In this post, I will demonstrate B) Information cannot arise from a random, non-directed process.The first thing to note is an ...

I mentioned in my comments with Mighty Pile the Gambler’s Ruin. The GR occurs when a gambler runs completely out of money. There are two aspects of the GR that impact our understanding of Natural Selection. First is the fact that if you are at a numerical disadvantage, then even if you have a statistical advantage in gambling you will often hit GR first simply because the other ...

There's a discussion going on over at Alan's blog about Expelled.

Richard Dawkins is in a really bad mood. I’ve been reading his “Lying for Jesus,” as well as his ‘Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein’s lying propaganda.”Dawkins’ problem is that he published a best selling slam against Christianity. Now, however, his bestseller may be eclipsed by a blockbuster documentary slamming the evolutionary establishment. In a competition between a book and a movie, the movie usually wins. ...

Prof. Douglas Groothuis has written a good summary review of the film Expelled.His piece "Intelligent Design and the State University: Accepting the Challenge" is worth reading as well.

With the relative success of Expelled, Intelligent Design is back in the news again. It is therefore perhaps a bit helpful to have a quick overview of some of the differences between Intelligent Design and Creationism.First, I should note that we must define how we are using the term “Creationism” in this essay. Most atheists define the term as equivalent to Young Earth Creationism, but this is too ...

My family and I just went to our local theater and viewed Ben Stein's documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. This documentary has already created no small stir on the internet as the pre-release controversy generated by it held the number one spot in the blogosphere all day on March 24 per Nielson's BlogPulse, and also received over 800 Technorati results. With it's release in 1,000 ...

Suppose that you were an alien visiting Earth for the first time and someone asked you to put the following two organisms into a Darwinian cladogram. How would you do it?Now obviously because most of us have a rudimentary understanding of Earth biology, we already know the answer on the above. Not only are these two organisms the same species, they’re actually the same individual (see http://lifecycle.onenessbecomesus.com/indepth.html for ...