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God and Evolution?
As an agnostic, I never have any problem with somebody who says, “13.7 billion year-old cosmos and evolution, yes, obviously, but not, ‘It all happened via the combination of chance and natural selection.’ Something more is up, and I think … Continue reading
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A False Choice: Believe in Evolution or a Divine Architect!
A pastor in Colorado recently posted the above image on his Facebook page and made the following comment: This snowflake was photographed in Russia. Is this not a most amazing picture? Let’s see, this is either the result of evolution … Continue reading
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Is Mind a Fluke of Nature?
According to atheist and University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne, probably: As for mind being nothing but a fluke of nature, well, that’s probably true, at least the human mind, since I don’t see our evolution as inevitable (it may … Continue reading
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A Creation Story
__________ It seems to have started as an argument. Nothing became something, rapidly expanding to a whole laundry list of things. Separation and settlement followed. Over time things cooled. Mother got her planets, Father took to the stars. As in any divorce, vast … Continue reading
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Tagged creation, creative writing, evolution, Genesis, life, literature, origins, poem
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Stephen Hawking’s “Did God Create the Universe?”
A thought-provoking reflection on the universe’s origin. __________ My fuller take on Hawking’s documentary is here.
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Creation Through Evolution?
Maybe the universe is an ongoing creation, and this is how the Creator is doing it, moving us, through a process of evolution, to some end product we can only half-imagine now. _____ Then again, maybe we live in a … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, biology, cosmos, creation, Darwin, evolution, Genesis, God, speculation, yoga
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On Evolution, Women Scientists Weigh In
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The Evolutionary Universe 1, Genesis Literalism 0
Question: Five days after the creation of the universe, were there whales? Answer: Obviously not. Why? Because the earth was not here five days after the universe began. And, for that matter, it was not here a billion years after the universe began. The earth … Continue reading
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Theism vs. Atheism Watch: A Visual Analogy for God’s Creation of the Universe? Or Just Some Curious Coincidences Born of Matter in Motion?
The following brief YouTube video strikes me as an analogy for what the universe is actually doing (passing from a lower entropy state to a higher entropy state with lots of curious patterns appearing along the way). See if you agree. … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, creation, evolution, Genesis, God, in the beginning, Jesus, origins, philosophy, physics, science
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Felisa Wolfe-Simon’s Microbes are Not Just Arsenic Loving, They’re Arsenic Based, and That’s Why This News is HUGE
How on earth did the Mono Lake arsenic eating microbes discovered by Felisa Wolfe-Simon go (presumably) from eating phosphorus and utilizing phosphorus in their DNA to eating arsenic and utilizing arsenic in their DNA? This is far more than just another extremophile organism … Continue reading
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Paul Davies Says Stephen Hawking’s New Book Doesn’t Quite Get Rid of God Completely
Physicist Paul Davies, reviewing, for the Guardian, Stephen Hawking’s new book, The Grand Design (Bantam 2010), says this: The laws of physics can explain, he says, how a universe of space, time and matter could emerge spontaneously, without the need … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, atheism, cosmology, creation, evolution, Genesis, God, multiverse hypothesis, origins, paul davies, physics, Stephen Hawking
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The Holographic Universe: the Unbreakable Lightness of Being?
After reading yesterday’s mind-bending New York Times article on gravity (and the possibility that we live in a holographic universe), I think I’ve put it all together. But I need a very smart physicists or science oriented person to set … Continue reading
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Why neither intelligent design nor young earth creationism can ever function as part of the sciences
I’ve always liked this cartoon:
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Tagged apologetics, biologos, Charles Darwin, creation, evolution, Genesis, God, intelligent design, miracles, philosophy, science, the Bible
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Why I am not a young earth creationist
When it comes right down to it, the tensions between science and biblical literalism boil down to epistemology: how do we go about knowing things, and when is it reasonable to say, “I know something”? In this, the scientist, in his or … Continue reading
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Not down Alice’s rabbit hole, but down Nikodem Poplawski’s wormhole?
Indiana University Monday: IU theoretical physicist Nikodem Poplawski in research published in “Physics Letters B” uses Euclidean-based mathematical modeling to suggest that all black holes may have wormholes inside which exist universes created at the same time as the black holes. And Nikodem Poplawski’s mathematical … Continue reading
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In the Image of Us Created We Him?
A new study suggests that humans tend to project onto God their own beliefs. In other words, you are likely to imagine that the Almighty has the same opinions about gay rights, Barack Obama, and Afghanistan that you do. At True/Slant … Continue reading
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Evolution v. Creation Watch: How Did Such a Frail, Intricate, and Gorgeous Thing Come into Existence in the First Place?
Just asking.
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Evolution Debated
An interesting William F. Buckley organized debate, refereed by Michael Kinsley, on evolution and intelligent design:
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Unweaving Richard Dawkins’s Promissory Atheist Rainbow
In the preface to Richard Dawkins’s book, Unweaving the Rainbow (1998, xi), he writes: I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way to go before … Continue reading
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A Curious Parallel Between Genesis and the Mesopotamian Enuma Elish
Biblical scholars see parallels between the creation story of Genesis chapter 1 and the Mesopotamian Enuma Elish. Here’s an example: Parallels like the one above suggest that Genesis 1 was written by a Jew living in Babylonian exile, and that the story … Continue reading
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