Tag: The Language of God

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 7, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Bible, BioLogos Foundation, Charles Darwin, debate, disagreement, Evangelical Christians, faith and science, Francis Collins, ID the Future, ideology, John West, podcast, scientific enterprise, scientific materialism, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, The Language of God, theistic evolution, theology, United States}

How Stockholm Syndrome Christianity Hinders Scientific Progress

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 7, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Scientific Freedom

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In a nutshell, theistic evolution is the attempt to reconcile belief in God with the standard evolutionary account of life’s origins. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
November 18, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, COVID-19, creator, Darwin Devolves, Evangelical Christians, evolution, faith and science, Francis Collins, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Joe Biden, junk DNA, Michael Behe, National Institutes of Health, natural, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, supernatural, The Language of God, The Road to Wisdom, unintelligent processes}

Francis Collins Renews Attack on Michael Behe and Intelligent Design

_{John G. West
November 18, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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It isn’t intelligent design that “has fallen victim to advances in science.” It’s Darwin’s outdated theory. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 24, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, American Museum of Natural History, apes, chromosomes, common ancestry, creationists, Darwin lobby, Dover trial, Eugenie Scott, evolution, Francis Collins, humans, IDEA Center, intelligent design, Journal of Molecular Biology, Kenneth Miller, Mongolia, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Peter Hess, The Language of God}

Chromosomal Fusion and Correcting Mistakes: A Retrospective on an Old Debate

_{Casey Luskin
January 24, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The main evidence that Dr. Scott cites to argue that chromosomal fusions aren’t necessarily deleterious comes not from humans but from horses. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
December 25, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cas9, Casey Luskin, coordination, CRISPR, Darwinian evolution, ENCODE, Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, Feng Zhang, Ferrari, Francis Collins, gene editing, genetic defects, genetic enhancements, George Church, germ line, humans, Huntington’s disease, incrementalism, intelligence, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jennifer Doudna, John Bodnar, John West, Journal of Theoretical Biology, junk DNA, Michael Behe, natural history, natural selection, predictions, Richard Dawkins, sickle cell disease, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Language of God}

Merry Christmas! #8 Story of 2021: An ID Prediction for CRISPR Gene Editing

_{William A. Dembski
December 25, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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From an design perspective, there is no compelling reason to think that CRISPR gene editing will constitute an enhancement tool for building superior humans. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 15, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, “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, human origin, 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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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, Journal of Molecular Biology and Evolution, 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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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, gain-of-function research, George W. Bush, Jonathan Witt, junk DNA, Karl Giberson, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, National Institutes of Health, Obama Administration, premature babies, professors, Science (journal), The Language of God, The New England Journal of Medicine, University of Alabama-Birmingham, 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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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
October 14, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, "poor design", asteroid belt, bacterial flagellum, Christianity, Cliff Notes, creator, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, evolution, Finding Darwin's God, first living cell, 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 ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
October 8, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Bill Clinton, Center for Science and Culture, China, COVID-19, Darwinian evolution, David French, ENCODE, evolution, Francis Collins, John West, junk DNA, National Institutes of Health, On the Origin of Species, proteins, The Language of God, theology, vaccinations, Wuhan}

Recalling Francis Collins’s The Language of God

_{Jonathan Wells
October 8, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

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President Bill Clinton announced, in a speech Collins helped to write, “we are learning the language in which God created life.” Read More ›