Category: Metaphysics | Page 2 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
November 7, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Metaphysics
Tagged
, algorithms, baby, David Klinghoffer, DNA, doctors, education, Evolution News, healing, health, mechanics, mechanism, medical school, medical science, medicine, patients, physicians, science, scientific atheism, soul, womb}

The Machine Model in Medicine

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
November 7, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine, Metaphysics

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The unfortunate fact is, there really are those two conflicting sides in medicine. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
October 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, A Biologist’s View, Darwinism, empirical science, evidence, evolution, Evolution News, Field Museum of Natural History, Jean Rostand, Jonathan Wells, materialistic science, New York Times, The Guardian}

The Mystery of Evolution May Be Unsolvable — By Materialist Science

_{Granville Sewell
October 2, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Seventy years later we are still not close to explaining the origin and development of life in terms of entirely natural (unintelligent) causes. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
September 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, algorithms, amino acids, Aristotle, causation, chickens, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, evolutionary theorists, explanations, final cause, G.K. Chesterton, human body, intelligent design, laws of physics, life, materialism, Mereology, Mona Lisa, oncologists, purpose, purposefulness, quantum physics, science of purpose, screwdriver, Stephen J. Iacoboni, Stuart Kauffman, supernatural, Thomas Aquinas, universe}

Theist Doctor, Materialist Doctor

_{Daniel Witt
September 9, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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To be a good medical doctor, you have to treat the human body as if its parts have purpose and function. There’s really no way around it. Read More ›

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Date
May 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, Being as Communion, Center for Science and Culture, ID the Future, information, information theory, intelligent design, James Tour, John West, matter, noun, podcast, reality, verb, William A. Dembski}

Dembski: Information Is the Heart of the Matter

_{Science and Culture
May 12, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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If information, not matter, is the basic stuff of reality, how would this change the way we look at the world? Read More ›

Piers Morgan interviews Stephen C. Meyer on Uncensored

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 3, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, death, dementia, grief, human being, intelligent design, interviews, Joe Rogan, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, philosophers, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, spirit, Stephen Meyer, subjective experience, The Joe Rogan Experience, Tucker Carlson, YouTube videos}

Stephen Meyer Interview with Piers Morgan: Science, God, and the Loss of a Parent

_{David Klinghoffer
May 3, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physical Sciences

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Meyer discusses the recent loss of his mother to dementia. Talking about grief leads to a powerful point, that may be unfamiliar to many viewers. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 25, 2024

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, birds, buoyancy, carbon, computers, flowers, form, function, hydrogen, insects, laboratories, life, Life Itself, microscopes, natural law, nature, nectar, nitrogen, oxygen, Plato, polar bears, pollinators, Pythagoras, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, seals, shape, telescopes, Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic Aristotelianism, water, wood}

A Closer Look at Natural Law

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 25, 2024

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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The property of a keen sense of smell allows a polar bear to smell a seal miles away under the ice. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, Cartesian dualism, dualism, Immanuel Kant, integration, John Searle, purpose, René Descartes, res cogitans, res extensa, science of purpose, scientific advance, scientism, Thomas Aquinas}

How to Overcome Scientism

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 4, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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Descartes is one of the founding fathers of Western science. And the conversion from medieval scholasticism to Cartesian dualism propelled science dramatically. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
November 1, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, ancient Greece, civilization, color, complexity, creator, doctors, E.O. Wilson, emergence, emotion, empirical science, engineers, human mind, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, knowing, memory, photon, quantum mechanics, René Descartes, science of purpose, scientific method, scientism, sound, theology, thought, vision, wave function, Werner Heisenberg}

Understanding the Limits of Scientism

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
November 1, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The great impasse in empirical science was reached early in the 20th century when quantum mechanics was first being developed. Read More ›

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Author
Tova Levengood

Date
October 23, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, biologists, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, donors, educators, engineers, geologists, human eye, intelligent design, materialism, Michael Egnor, naturalism, parents, pastors, physicians, Research, scholarship, speakers, students, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith, Your Designed Body, YouTube videos}

Our Conferences Are a Force Multiplier — Here’s How That Works

_{Tova Levengood
October 23, 2023

Engineering, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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As a service consultant at a high-end car dealership, Walt likes to share what he learns with his customers. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 8, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, analogy, ATP synthase, Bruce Alberts, Cell (journal), historical sciences, Hubert Yockey, humans, intelligence, intelligent agency, intelligent design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, machines, mutations, natural selection, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, specified information, theology, U.S. National Academy of Sciences}

No, Intelligent Design Doesn’t Reason by Analogy; Here’s Why

_{Casey Luskin
August 8, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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We also see machines in living systems. That’s not to say that cells or living systems on the whole are “machines,” but they do contain machines. Read More ›