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What is the Theory of Intelligent Design and does it Have a Future?

March 30th, 201209:12 PM ET

By Mike Keas

The theory of intelligent design (ID) holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection. Intelligent design theorists engage in an effort to empirically detect whether many instances of "apparent design" in nature are genuine desig...
Columbia University Professor Challenges Krauss' Book: A Universe From Nothing (Reason Rally Rhetoric)

March 27th, 201211:22 PM ET

By Mike Keas

Columbia University Philosopher of Science David Albert published a devastating review of Lawrence Krauss' book A Universe From Nothing in the New York Times on March 23, one day before Krauss appeared on stage with Dawkins at the Reason Rally atheism festival in DC. In the book's afterword Dawkins provided this lofty pron...
Reason Rally Participants Urged to Mock Religion

March 24th, 201211:49 PM ET

By Mike Keas

I'll briefly comment on Lillian Kwon's Christian Post article about the Saturday March 24th Reason Rally. Kwon writes: Richard Dawkins, author of the best-selling The God Delusion, was the most anticipated and well-known speaker at the rally. In his brief address, Dawkins encouraged fellow atheists to ridicule those who claim to be religi...
Bad Religion: Punk "Science & Religion" Rock on the DC "Reason Rally" Stage

March 23rd, 201209:48 AM ET

By Mike Keas

Earlier I introduced punk rocker and PhD evolutionary biologist Greg Graffin. I noted his similarities to Richard Dawkins, and their highly anticipated joint appearance at the DC Reason Rally on Saturday March 24. Let's explore the anti-theistic music of Greg Graffin's Bad Religion punk band a bit more, because popular culture has been of ...
Molecular Machines in the Cell: See the Products of Intelligent Design Animated

March 21st, 201209:51 PM ET

By Mike Keas

Casey Luskin's recent Bio-Mechanics article in Salvo magazine offers a riveting and clear explanation of how molecular machines in the living cell point to intelligent design. Here are some excerpts with comments, and links to a few animations that illustrate the points even better than Luskin's still graphics. Luskin writes (I've om...
Preparing for the March 24 “Reason Rally” with the book “True Reason"

March 19th, 201203:55 PM ET

By Mike Keas

Earlier I wrote about the "Reason Rally" here: Bad Religion and the "Largest Gathering of the Secular Movement in World History." You will want to purchase the book True Reason whether or not you attend the March 24th "Reason Rally." This book responds to the unjustified leaps of thinking that you will find at the much anticipated secul...
Bad Religion, Ideologically Hijacked Science, and the "Largest Gathering of the Secular Movement in World History"

March 17th, 201209:28 PM ET

By Mike Keas

What do Richard Dawkins and Greg Graffin have in common? They both have PhDs that prepared them to teach evolutionary biology to college students: Dawkins at Oxford and Graffin at UCLA. They also both have written anti-theistic books about faith and evolution: Dawkins' God Delusion (2006) and Graffin's Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad R...
David Berlinski & Michael Denton: Primary Objections to Neo-Darwinism

March 14th, 201206:29 PM ET

By Mike Keas

I found this podcast to be one of the best in the past month at ID The Future. On this episode Discovery Institute senior fellows David Berlinski and Michael Denton, both long-time critics of neo-Darwinism, discuss their primary objections to neo-Darwinian theory. For Berlinski, a mathematician and author of 1, 2, 3: Absolutely Elementary Math...
"RNA World" View of Life's Origin is in Trouble Again: Naturalistic Faith Overcomes the Disconfirming Evidence

March 13th, 201202:47 PM ET

By Mike Keas

Yesterday Cornelius Hunter posted a blog that updates the controversy over the origin of the first life forms. Hunter holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics and Computational Biology. He is author of the award-winning Darwin's God: Evolution and the Problem of Evil, in which he shows that Darwinism has relied on many "God wouldn't have done it that way" t...
Aping Mankind: An Atheist Professor of Medicine Exposes Weaknesses in Darwinian Tales about the Human Mind

March 10th, 201208:44 PM ET

By Mike Keas

Raymond Tallis, who is an atheistic Professor of Medicine, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, recently published Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis, and the Misrepresentation of Humanity (Acumen, 2011). In this book he voices concern about the overuse of materialistic explanations of all things human. But also he desires to ...
Human Uniqueness vs. Modern Dethronement Ideology: Part 3 (Human Speech and Reason)

March 06th, 201211:00 PM ET

By Mike Keas

Today I conclude my series of thoughts about Tom Bethell's Washington Times essay Why Humans are Unique. Bethell writes: Efforts to get chimpanzees to talk have produced nothing but disappointment. Talking logically is something that small children suddenly do and animals never learn. Our mastery of complex language may be the pre-eminent...
Human Uniqueness vs. Modern Dethronement Ideology: Part 2 (A Space Odyssey)

March 03rd, 201210:27 PM ET

By Mike Keas

Today I continue my series of thoughts (here is part 1) about Tom Bethell's Washington Times essay Why Humans are Unique. Bethell writes: One of the great dogmas of our age is that there is nothing unusual about the human race. We are told that only in degree do we differ from the apes. The belief that nature and human nature form a cont...
Human Uniqueness vs. Modern Dethronement Ideology

March 03rd, 201209:51 AM ET

By Mike Keas

Tom Bethell prods us to consider Why Humans are Unique in The Washington Times this week. I shall offer my own thoughts about parts of his pithy essay. Bethell writes: Almost daily there are new reports of distant planets [for example, see my last CP blog on the latest, greatest of these planets]. They may outnumber the 100 billio...

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I report new developments in science and discuss their implications for Christian apologetics (reasons to believe in Christianity). I critique today’s dominant materialistic worldview, which denies the intrinsic dignity and freedom of human beings and enfeebles scientific creativity.