Over 1000 doctoral scientists from around the world have signed a statement publicly expressing their skepticism about the contemporary theory of Darwinian evolution. There Is Scientific Dissent From Darwinism. It deserves to be heard.
"Of course, the main problem with the multiverse argument is that there is absolutely no scientific evidence — there can never be any scientific evidence — that other universes even exist."
Perhaps the most fundamental distinction between naturalism and intelligent design is where each metaphysical framework draws the line at irreducibility.
Does modern science disprove the existence of a creator? Learn about the scientific evidence that is making Darwinism obsolete.
The Return of the God Hypothesis by philosopher of science Stephen Meyer offers readers . . .
INSPIRING HOPE: The scientific rediscovery of God
Recent discoveries in cosmology showing the universe had a beginning have decidedly theistic implications; namely, they point to a transcendent creator as the cause of the origin of the universe.
"In other words: evolutionists make up fancy just-so stories that do not stand up to scrutiny when they are checked with actual empirical data from the fossil record, which contradict the storytelling."
#FossilFriday
Resisting the evidence of cosmic and biological design, some atheist scientists have retreated to desperate rationalizations — such as a purely speculative “multiverse,” or space aliens seeding life on Earth.
#prageru
Have scientists succeeded in creating life from non-life? Or are they still clueless? Enjoy four engaging conversations between philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer and
@drjamestour
a world-leading synthetic organic chemist at Rice University.
Polymath and raconteur David Berlinski is at it again, challenging the shibboleths of contemporary science with his inimitable blend of deep learning, close reasoning, and rapier wit.
"Scientists have sequenced a great number of whole genomes. And as a consequence, they know that Dawkins was wrong. Every gene does not deliver “approximately the same tree of life.”
Philosopher, intelligent design scholar & bestselling author of Darwin’s Doubt,
@stephencmeyer
presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God. Watch his presentation at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith.
If you are not an ideological materialist atheist, it would make more sense just to assume that our universe is designed because of the clear evidence for fine-tuning.
"The complexity of these coats, and the accessory proteins that build them, attach them to vesicles, and disassemble them, defy unguided evolutionary explanations."
"I would argue that Meyer is one of the most articulate intellectuals on the subject of origins and how science strongly supports the existence of a mind behind the cosmos," writes philosopher and theologian Scott Ventureyra for
@CrisisMag
"Each human is not a mere body, but rather has a substantive soul. And our souls are at the center of personhood, including what it is to be an individual, a self with a unique consciousness and experience of the world. We are persons, not things." ~SM
Is our universe an accident? Or does it display exquisite evidence of intentional design?
Dive deeper - "The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Intelligent Life" by Luke Barnes, History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture
"None of this helps the evolutionary story or answers the key issue: where did the genetic information come from to build complex body plans with hierarchical structures and functional organs composed of new tissues and cell types?"
#fossilfriday
Are you caught up with
@DrJamesTour
and Stephen Meyer's overview of the state of origins research? New one coming tomorrow, until then check out the first 3 episodes
#originsoflife
The voices of pop science teach us and our children that we are completely insignificant; we are nothing but matter in a material universe. Is that what you want to believe? Or do you hope there is something more to life?
Stephen Meyer will be giving a break-out session on ID as a scientific theory as well as the closing talk, in which he’ll explain why the concept of “front-loaded” design fails to explain the origin of the universe
Join us to learn about the intelligent design of life's nanotechnology — from protein pumps and molecular machines to viruses and earthworm skin!
#homeschool
"Have you ever wondered why some people are able to think about the world in a clearer way, forming more balanced and nuanced views about controversial topics, than others?'
@joerogan
is insatiably curious and he asked many probing questions in an interview that flowed naturally from one deep subject to another. He definitely put me through my paces, but all in his trademark spirit of open inquiry. ~S \
"The disparity between what is told to the press, conveyed to students in textbooks, and by popular YouTube bloggers and what the actual scientific evidence shows is huge." - Stephen Meyer
One sign of a robust scientific theory is the quality of its most prominent proponents. But serious advocates of Darwinism have become an endangered species.
"If you take a potential solution off the table and you throw it in the garbage, you could spend the rest of eternity searching around on the table for the answer, and you threw it in the garbage."
Some scientists, including Albert Einstein, fought hard against the idea of a Big Bang — that the universe burst into existence a finite time ago — until the scientific data became too overwhelming to fudge or deny anymore.
@jordanbpeterson
Yes. Microevolutionary processes are observed & well-documented. Mutation & selection are real processes, but lack the creative power to produce the information needed to generate novel protein folds, or major morphological innovations. ~SM
"What drives the astonishing anarchism, the nihilism of the young? What has drained the confidence of the adults, who should be the ones acting to assert order?"
For a century Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has been as unquestioned as Newton’s theory of gravity. But science never stops asking questions. Are there questions about the origins of life that Darwinism can’t answer?
#prageru
#darwinism
Evolutionists predicted that DNA would turn out to be full of Darwinian debris, playing no functional role. Proponents of intelligent design said the opposite. Who was right?
Birds and dinosaurs may not represent arbitrary chunks of an evolutionary grade after all, but may instead represent distinct natural kinds.
#FossilFriday
"These guys who work in origin of Life are absolutely clueless on all of these issues and even on the issues that they think they have figured out, it doesn't work." – Dr. Jim Tour
"In this age where we tend to look more at screens than at stars, when we drive more than we walk, and in which it’s so easy to get caught up in the frenetic pace of modern life, taking some time to reflect on the beautiful things in the world can lead to genuine thanksgiving."
Is your body engineered? Or did it evolve through impersonal, random processes over millions of years through natural selection? On this ID The Future, host Wesley J. Smith interviews engineer Steve Laufmann and physician Howard Glicksman about their recent book Your Designed
"If the universe is supposed to be without intelligence or design how do — not just one — but at least two quite different systems for enabling it come to exist? What are the odds?"
Most of society’s critical institutions are suffering from a crisis of trust. To learn what happened, whether the loss of confidence is deserved, Huaminze host
@theWesleyJSmith
turns to philosopher of science
@StephenCMeyer
to engage the crisis.
"Having no experience of designing living organisms ourselves, we should exercise tremendous caution about asserting what a designer should or should not have done."
"Between message and reality, there is a major disconnect," writes Meyer. "Over the last century, important scientific discoveries have dramatically challenged science-based atheism, and three in particular now tell a decidedly more God-friendly story."
So from the perspective of evolutionary theory, the human eye is evidence for unguided evolution and against intelligent design. But is the human eye really evidence against design?
"If a well-equipped research facility, staffed by the world’s best scientists, couldn’t produce a seed or even a single living cell from raw materials, what basis is there for assuming unguided natural processes could do it?"
In spite of all the scientific efforts by Darwinists, the origin of complete metamorphosis in holometabolan insects remains an unsolved mystery.
#fossilfriday
"Multiverse scenarios assume that a putative universe-generating mechanism endows its offspring with physical laws and parameters spanning a wide spectrum of possibilities. However, this notion flies in the face of what we observe as a general feature of the physical realm."
Rice University chemist James Tour has just released a fascinating, scientifically substantive, but also quite personal podcast conversation with Stephen Meyer.
Stephen Meyer and other proponents of intelligent design theory are often accused of committing the “God of the gaps” fallacy, or GOTG for short. Just what does that mean?
"It is becoming a striking pattern that we intelligent design proponents make one successful prediction after another, while Darwinism’s track record of failed predictions grows ever longer," says paleontologist Günter Bechly.
#FossilFriday
"All attempts by Cronin and others to justify belief in an undirected origin of life smuggle design into their theories in the guise of natural selection and self-organization."
"Farina’s focus on personal attacks and his repeated refusals to answer Tour’s reasonable scientific challenges made it clear to many viewers that Tour had the better argument. "
40 yrs ago Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn accepted the Templeton Prize, but immediately turned about and delivered a blistering, prophetic speech that you should take some time now to read.
#Solzhenitsyn
"You can’t design something for a purpose and call it Darwinism. Even if some randomness is thrown in, once a goal is specified in advance, that’s not evolution; it’s intelligent design."
“While it may be incredibly fun to theorize a myriad of possible explanations as to why intelligent extraterrestrials might remain hidden from us, the simplest possibility — that they just aren’t out there — should be the default hypothesis until proven otherwise.”
Meyer, author of Return of the God Hypothesis, who recently appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience as the interviewee, discussing the origin of life and other subjects, here reverses roles and interviews Dr. Tour.
It is no secret that most of society’s critical institutions are suffering from a crisis of trust. One of these is science. Stephen C. Meyer appears on Humanize to discuss what happened, whether the loss of confidence is deserved, and what can be done about it.
"Vertebrate blood clotting is an incredible, tightly regulated, multi-component cascade that intuitively points to intelligent design. This is in view of its goal-directedness towards its final end, which is producing a successful clot."
Brand new episode of Secrets of the Cell - In “Information: The Foundation of Life,” Dr. Michael Behe unravels the mystery of how information drives the development and operation of our cells, our teeth, our bones, and much more.
If there were no God & no purpose to existence, could we rationally expect a cosmic home like ours — a universe with a beginning, ultra-finely tuned for life, with living beings far surpassing in sophistication the most advanced human technology?
#prageru
The probabilistic resources of our universe fall short of what is necessary to develop even one large functional protein molecule that would be just one of tens of thousands of different protein molecules that are needed for human life to exist
@CollegeFix
Does belief in God get in the way of science? The idea that science and religion are inevitably in conflict is a popular way of thinking today. But the history of science tells a different story.
#prageru
According to biochemist Michael Behe: "The bottom line: Although random mutation and natural selection help a species adapt, Darwinian processes can’t account for the origins of sophisticated biological systems."
Have scientists created life from non-life? Welcome to the first in a series of four conversations between philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer and chemist
@DrJamesTour
on the many challenges faced by origin of life researchers.
Physicist Brian Miller explores the amazing design and optimization of the human eye in this talk from the 2023 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith.