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• The Worldview of Naturalism

  
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  In Western culture, one popular worldview is that of naturalism.  Naturalism is the worldview that believes, in a word, that nature is all there is.  This worldview “regards the natural, material, and physical universe as the only reality.”  Naturalists say the cosmos is a closed system of cause and effect; ...
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• Debate Review: Fazale Rana vs. Michael Ruse on “The Origin of Life: Evolution vs. Design”

  
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  Fazale Rana recently debated Michael Ruse on the topic of the origin of life. Essentially, the question of the debate was whether the origin of life is best explained by naturalism or design. Here, I will provide brief comments on the debate. Please note I make no claims to being a scientist and I am fully aware that ...
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• Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism

  
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  Home > Philosophy > Metaphysics Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism  2  |   3   |   4   |   Next > Some atheists claim there is a conflict between science and religion. But what if there were a conflict between naturalism (disbelief in the supernatural) and science? ...
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• Doug Axe explains the chances of getting a functional protein by chance

  
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  I’ve talked about Doug Axe before when I described how to calculate the odds of getting functional proteins by chance. Let’s calculate the odds of building a protein composed of a functional chain of 100 amino acids, by chance. (Think of a meaningful English sentence built with 100 scrabble letters, held ...
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• Stephen C. Meyer and Peter Atkins debate intelligent design

  
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  This dialog occurred in 2010 on the Unbelievable radio show. I made a rough transcript, so please see below for that. The MP3 file is here . (60 minutes) Details: The documentary film “Expelled” is presented by US Actor Ben Stein and makes the case that scientists who question Darwinian orthodoxy and support ...
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• Angela Lergo - ‘the sunshine on your smile’

  
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  Angela Lergo - ‘the sunshine on your smile’
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• Carson Weitnauer: putting atheism on the defensive

  
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  Here’s an article at Reasons for God that explains a few simple questions that you can ask your atheist friends. He writes: Though it has been persistently marketed to us as a worldview that stands for reason and science, the truth is that the atheistic worldview is riddled with contradictions and outlandish ...
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• Can the worldview of naturalism rationally ground mind, meaning and morality?

  
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  J. Warner Wallace , author of “Cold Case Christianity”, explains why it can’t. Here’s just one of the three troubles with naturalism: Morality If naturalism is true, morality is nothing more than a matter of opinion. All of us, as humans, have simply come to embrace those cultural or personal mores that ...
  3 weeks ago

• J. Warner Wallace: making sense out of the creation from nothing

  
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  An article from “Cold Case Christianity” author J. Warner Wallace. Excerpt: Even as an atheist, I understood the challenge offered by the “Standard Cosmological Model” (the Big Bang Theory ) when examined from my naturalistic worldview. This model infers a “cosmological singularity” in which all space, ...
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• The undisputed best book on intelligent design now has a sequel

  
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  The very best book on intelligent design is Dr. Stephen C. Meyer’s “ Signature in the Cell “, which discusses the knotty problem of the origin of life. And now, a new book by Dr. Meyer has been announced to tackle another huge problem: the fossil record. Here is the description of the new book , entitled ...
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• Naturalism and injustice

  
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  (Premise) All instances of severe suffering of small children are unjust. (Premise) Only things agents are responsible for are unjust. So, all instances of severe suffering of small children are things that agents are responsible for. If (3), then naturalism is false. A quick argument for (1): all unfair ...
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• New study: function found for beta-globin pseudogene that was labeled “junk” during Dover trial

  
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  Casey Luskin tells us about a new study in Evolution News . Excerpt: A new paper in  Genome Biology and Evolution  argues that the famous beta-globin pseudogene is functional. Why is this pseudogene famous? Well, it’s been Exhibit A — literally, offered as evidence in a court case — for critics of ...
  4 weeks ago

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