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New Study of Ribosome's Programming Language: Support for Intelligent Design Concepts

April 30th, 201209:01 AM ET

By Mike Keas

A 14 March 2012 essay in the peer-reviewed journal Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling is noteworthy for adopting the intelligent design approach of identifying and measuring functional (prescriptive) information in living systems. They also recognize that a "programming language" is in use when a ribosome translates the DNA/RNA cod...
The Cambrian Explosion—A Major Challenge to Darwinism—Finally Defused by Geologists?

April 28th, 201209:52 AM ET

By Mike Keas

Shanan E. Peters and Robert R. Gaines published an article in Nature on 19 April 2012 that offers a new theory for how the Cambrian explosion occurred. But their attempt to diffuse this Darwin-threatening biological bomb is not really that helpful to believers in Darwinian evolution. The Cambrian explosion refers to the geologically sudden ap...
Unguided Evolution of Humans from Chimp-Like Ancestors is Astronomically Unlikely

April 27th, 201209:07 AM ET

By Mike Keas

Ann Gauger, senior research scientist at Biologic Institute, has explained the upshot of recent research on the mutations in DNA that Darwinists think would be needed to evolve a chimp-like ancestor into a human being. The main problem that is often overlooked by Darwinists, but that destroys the credibility of human evolution from ape-like creatur...
Intelligent Design is not a Recent Invention of the Christian Right: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Part 2)

April 25th, 201210:26 AM ET

By Mike Keas

In part one of our study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau we noted how he drew from Newtonian physics to develop an argument for a cosmic intelligent designer. If we follow the causal chain of “action and reaction” back far enough, he argued, we eventually come to a first cause, which must be an entity capable of “spontaneous, voluntary action.�...
Intelligent Design is not a Recent Invention of the Christian Right: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

April 24th, 201208:59 AM ET

By Mike Keas

Ancient philosophers including Plato and Aristotle adovcated early forms of intelligent design theory, which shows that intelligent design is not a recent invention of the Christian right (download “The Roots of Intelligent Design” here). We shall focus on a colorful 18th-century example of design theory that most people have overlooked: the en...
Is Life Absurd without God?

April 23rd, 201209:52 AM ET

By Mike Keas

William Lane Craig has often argued: On my view there are two necessary conditions for an ultimately meaningful, purposeful, and valuable life: God and immortality—and if atheism is true, then, plausibly, we have neither. Craig, like Francis Schaefer, uses this sort of argument to help people sense their need to look into the claims of Jesus Ch...
Dawinism and Dishonest Journalism: Then (Scopes Trial) and Now (Academic Freedom Laws)

April 21st, 201210:06 AM ET

By Mike Keas

“You can’t criticize evolution because that would be against the law. It’s incredible, but evolutionists legislate the truth of their theory. They’ll sue, lie to judges, falsify histories, oppose academic freedom, control funding, blackball skeptics and create laws that not only enforce evolution but outlaw even criticism of their non scien...
Plantinga Replies to Richards on the Senses in which Darwinism is and is not Compatible with Christianity

April 17th, 201211:20 PM ET

By Mike Keas

I reported recently about the dialogue between philosophers Alvin Plantinga and Jay Richards over the meaning of “random” in Darwinian evolutionary theory. This exchange is about Plantinga’s book Where the Conflict Really Lies Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism (Oxford, 2011). Here Plantinga argues tha...
Tennessee Enacts Academic Freedom Law Protecting Teachers Who Present Both Sides of Evolution Debate

April 10th, 201210:57 PM ET

By Mike Keas

On Tuesday April 10th Tennessee became the latest state to enact an academic freedom bill that protects teachers when they promote critical thinking and objective discussion about controversial science issues such as biological evolution, climate change and human cloning. At least ten states now have statewide science standards or laws that protect...
Philosophers Alvin Plantinga and Jay Richards Discuss the Meaning of "Random" in Evolution

April 07th, 201211:09 PM ET

By Mike Keas

Philosophers Alvin Plantinga and Jay Richards have had an interesting exchange over the meaning of "random" in regard to the claims of evolutionary theory. This exchange was sparked by remarks Richards made in part three of his review of Plantinga's important new book, Where the Conflict Really Lies Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, ...
Which Worldviews are in Conflict with Science? Plantinga's Book: Where the Conflict Really Lies

April 03rd, 201210:14 PM ET

By Mike Keas

Many equate naturalism (the view that nature is all that exists) with the "scientific worldview." This is an often-repeated assertion of the new atheists. Alvin Plantinga's book, Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism (Oxford University Press, December 2011) provides solid reasons for rejecting this assertion of ...

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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.