Tag: John Polkinghorne

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Author
Subboor Ahmad

Date
January 30, 2024

Categories
Biology
Ecology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Social Sciences
Tagged
, 9/11 attack, agnostics, Angus Menuge, Christians, Darwinism, Debating Design, Elliott Sober, epigenetics, evolution, genomics, intelligent design, John Polkinghorne, Kenneth Miller, Michael Ruse, Muslims, neo-Darwinian mechanisms, New Atheism, Paul Davies, podcast, problems, puzzles, Richard Swinburne, Robert Pennock, self-organization, Stuart Kauffman, theistic evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Walter Bradley, William A. Dembski}

Dembski and Ruse Look Back on 20 Years of Debate — And a Special Anniversary

_{Subboor Ahmad
January 30, 2024

Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Social Sciences

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The protest about the “spectre of intelligent design” was telling. When critics start talking that way, you can’t help wondering if ID is onto something. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 24, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, agnosticism, atheism, England, ID the Future, intelligent design, John Polkinghorne, materialists, Paul Davies, Peter S. Williams, podcast, Richard Dawkins, science teachers, Stephen Hawking, theism, universe, worldview}

A Philosopher Defends Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 24, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Peter S. Williams explains the deceptively simple test he uses to silence claims that intelligent design is not a scientific pursuit. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 28, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, American Horror Story, Anthony Fauci, Barack Obama, Catholic clergy, Center for Medical Progress, Charles Colson, China, Colorado, conscience rights, COVID-19, David Daleiden, David French, Donald Trump, Evangelical Christians, faith, Francis Collins, human fetus, John Polkinghorne, Judicial Watch, medical conscience, Mother Teresa, National Institutes of Health, Roman Catholic, Rutgers University, Social Darwinism, Templeton Prize, The New Yorker, U.S. Presidents, vaccine mandates, Wuhan}

#5 Story of 2021: Francis Collins’s Troubling Record at NIH

_{John G. West
December 28, 2021

Bioethics, Medicine

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NIH Director Francis Collins is being praised as “a national treasure,” but his real legacy is anything but praiseworthy. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
October 28, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brown University, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, evolution, faith, George Coyne, Henri Bergson, Holy Spirit, intelligent design, John Polkinghorne, Kenneth Miller, Mere Christianity, Nobel Prize, Perelandra, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, theistic evolution}

C. S. Lewis and Theistic Evolution

_{John G. West
October 28, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Biological development is either the result of an unintelligent material process or a process guided by a mind, aka intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
October 5, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, American Horror Story, Anthony Fauci, Barack Obama, Catholic clergy, Center for Medical Progress, Charles Colson, China, Colorado, conscience rights, COVID-19, David Daleiden, David French, Donald Trump, Evangelical Christians, faith, Francis Collins, human fetus, John Polkinghorne, Judicial Watch, medical conscience, Mother Teresa, National Institutes of Health, Roman Catholic, Rutgers University, Social Darwinism, Templeton Prize, The New Yorker, U.S. Presidents, vaccine mandates, Wuhan}

Francis Collins’s Troubling Record at NIH

_{John G. West
October 5, 2021

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine

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NIH Director Francis Collins is being praised as “a national treasure,” but his real legacy is anything but praiseworthy. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
December 18, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, American Museum of Natural History, bacterial flagellum, Brown University, Cambridge University Press, Darwinian processes, Darwinism, Debating Design, function, Irreducible Complexity, John McDonald, John Polkinghorne, Kenneth Miller, Michael Ruse, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), parts, Paul Davies, Richard Swinburne, Stuart Kauffman, toothpicks, type III secretion system, William A. Dembski}

Excerpt: An Obstacle to Darwinian Evolution

_{Michael Behe
December 18, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Rather than showing how their theory could handle the obstacle, some Darwinists are hoping to get around irreducible complexity by verbal tap dancing. Read More ›

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Author
John Lennox

Date
July 17, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, atheism, Charles Darwin, Christianity, consciousness, human mind, John Polkinghorne, Mind and Cosmos, naturalism, rationality, Thomas Nagel, universe}

Why Science and Atheism Don’t Mix

_{John Lennox
July 17, 2020

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Scientific Reasoning

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Physicist John Polkinghorne says that the reduction of mental events to physics and chemistry destroys meaning. Read More ›

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Author
James Le Fanu

Date
September 9, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Tagged
, __edited, Big Bang, Boeing 747, C.S. Lewis, cells, chemical elements, double helix, earth, electromagnetism, fly, Fred Hoyle, geneticists, gravity, Harvard University, humanities, John Polkinghorne, man, Mary Midgley, mouse, neuroscientists, Nobel Prize, plate tectonics, Sapientia, science, Scientia, scientism, solar system, speed of light, strong and weak nuclear forces, tornado, universe, University of Birmingham, William Provine, World War II}

Between Sapientia and Scientia — Michael Aeschliman’s Profound Interpretation

_{James Le Fanu
September 9, 2019

Bioethics, Biology

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Science, the dominant way of knowing of our age, now finds itself caught between a rock and (very) hard place. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
August 24, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Bible, BioLogos, Christians, deism, design detection, evolution, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, Francisco Ayala, intelligent design, John Polkinghorne, Karl Giberson, Kenneth Miller, Peaceful Science, Richard Dawkins, S. Joshua Swamidass, Stephen Meyer, The Blind Watchmaker, The Language of God, theistic evolution, Themelios, theology, Washington University}

Answering Joshua Swamidass: What Do Theistic Evolutionists Believe?

_{Ann Gauger
August 24, 2018

Faith & Science

10}

There are innumerable descriptions and definitions of theistic evolution. How things are phrased matters a lot. Read More ›