Tag: Francis Collins | Page 6 | Science and Culture Today

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Casey Luskin

Date
November 15, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
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, “consensus science”, Adam and Eve, Adam and the Genome, Ann Gauger, BIO-Complexity, BioLogos, bottleneck, Calvin College, Christianity Today, Deborah Haarsma, Dennis Venema, DNA, Evangelical Christians, Evangelicals, evolutionary creation, evolutionary science, Francis Collins, humans, In Quest of the Historical Adam, In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Nature Ecology and Evolution, npr, Ola Hössjer, Queen Mary University, Review of Craig's In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Richard Buggs, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science and Human Origins, Scot McKnight, The Language of God, theistic evolution, Trinity Western University, William Lane Craig}

Lessons from the Evangelical Debate About Adam and Eve

_{Casey Luskin
November 15, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The standard evolutionary account of human origins holds that our population has always been in the thousands and humanity did not descend from an initial pair. Read More ›

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Date
November 14, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, faith, Francis Collins, ID the Future, Karl Giberson, podcast, The Language of Science and Faith, theistic Darwinism, theistic evolution}

Book Championing Theistic Evolution Comes up Short

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November 14, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Casey Luskin reviews the contradictions and fallacious bandwagon appeals that he says permeate the book. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 10, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Australopithecus, Bernard Wood, Bible, Christianity Today, Darwinian evolution, East Africa, evolution, FOXP2, Francis Collins, genes, Genetics (journal), Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, human intelligence, human origins, Ian Tattersall, In Quest of the Historical Adam, In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), integration, mutations, Nature (journal), paleoanthropology, Review of Craig's In Quest of the Historical Adam (series), Robin Williams, Sapiens (book), science and religion, The Language of God, Time Magazine, William Lane Craig, Yuval Noah Harari}

Missed Opportunity: Passing over Scientific Problems with Human Evolution

_{Casey Luskin
November 10, 2021

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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William Lane Craig’s rhetorical strategy is essentially to accept whatever mainstream evolutionary paleoanthropology says. Read More ›

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Date
October 29, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Technology
Tagged
, brain, brain size, burial, common ancestry, evolution, Francis Collins, Homo sapiens, human evolution, humans, ID the Future, Karl Giberson, Neanderthals, neo-Darwinian theory, podcast, The Language of Science and Faith}

De-Humanizing Neanderthals: A Darwinist Dog that Won’t Hunt

_{Science & Culture
October 29, 2021

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Technology

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Growing evidence suggests Neanderthals buried their dead, employed technology, and had a brain size equal to or even slightly larger than ours. Read More ›

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Date
October 24, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, evolution, Francis Collins, ID the Future, intelligent design, Karl Giberson, neo-Darwinian theory, podcast, random mutations, The Language of Science and Faith}

Francis Collins, Eye Evolution, and Blind Faith

_{Science & Culture
October 24, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Instead of simply accepting the neo-Darwinian explanation of the eye on faith, Casey Luskin examines the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
October 22, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cars, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, common ancestor, Elon Musk, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary tree, Francis Collins, Genome Research, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, historical sciences, intelligent design, junk DNA, Matti Leisola, Science and Human Origins, Stephen Meyer, Tesla, University of Cambridge}

Forbidden Question: Common Descent or Common Design?

_{Jonathan Witt
October 22, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Think of cars. A Tesla and a Cadillac share many features — but of course, none of that means that Teslas blindly evolved from Cadillacs, or vice versa. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
October 18, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, Bible, Casey Luskin, China, Christianity, Christianity Today, Darwin Day in America, Darwinian evolution, ENCODE, Evangelical Christians, Francis Collins, George W. Bush, Jonathan Witt, junk DNA, Karl Giberson, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, National Institutes of Health, Obama Administration, professors, Science (journal), The Language of God, The New England Journal of Medicine, vaccination}

The Tragedy of Francis Collins’s Model for Science-Faith Integration

_{John G. West
October 18, 2021

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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The depiction of Francis Collins as someone who has developed a good model for integrating faith and science is in many respects a tragic myth. Read More ›

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Date
October 17, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, birds, blind evolution, developmental biology, evolution, evolutionists, feathers, Flight, Francis Collins, ID the Future, Karl Giberson, podcast, scales, The Language of Science and Faith}

Listen: Scale-to-Feather Evolution Doesn’t Fly

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October 17, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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Giberson and Collins point to the feather as a prime example of a novel feature arising via blind evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
October 14, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, "poor design", asteroid belt, bacterial flagellum, Christianity, creator, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, evolution, Finding Darwin's God, Francis Collins, intelligent design, Jupiter, Kenneth Miller, Mars, methodological materialism, Michael Behe, Moral Law, Scott Minnich, Singularity, Stephen Meyer, The Language of God, William A. Dembski}

Francis Collins: A Methodological Materialist When He Feels Like It

_{Jonathan Witt
October 14, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Planetology

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Imagine a boy who tells a girl he could climb to Jupiter because a natural ladder stretches from our planet to it. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
October 13, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", bacterial flagellum, Big Bang, Christianity, cosmic design, cosmic fine-tuning, Craig Venter, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, evolution, Francis Collins, Human Genome Project, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Michael Denton, New Atheists, non-coding DNA, physical constants, Richard Dawkins, Scott Minnich, Stephen Meyer, testability, The Language of God, Wired Magazine}

Francis Collins’s The Language of God 15 Years On

_{Jonathan Witt
October 13, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Collins refers to the “backward wiring” of the vertebrate eye, characterizing it as flawed from an engineering perspective. Read More ›