Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God The odds of life existing on another planet grow ever longer. Intelligent design, anyone? By Eric Metaxas Dec. 25, 2014 4:56 p.m. ET . In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: Is God Dead? Many have accepted the cultural narrative that he’s obsolete—that as science progresses,…
How much of the overall human genome is actually functional? Well, this has been a matter of hot debate since 2012 when the ENCODE scientists announced their estimate of ~80% functionality for the human genome (ENCODE: The human encyclopaedia, Sept 5, 2012). This initial estimate was strongly challenged and even mocked by numerous scientists (Link). …
From an interesting E-mail exchange I recently had about the “science” of detecting God’s signature in nature: Why to you have to jump from “we don’t understand the natural explanation for this” to “it must have been designed by something unnatural?” As scientists we pursue NATURAL explanations for NATURAL things. Are you redefining or resorting…
For those who were left rather underwhelmed by the Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham debate (Ken Ham didn’t do very well), consider reviewing another far more interesting debate. Late last year there was an interesting debate on Premier Christian Radio, “Unbelievable” with Justin Brierley between Stephen Meyer and Charles Marshall over Meyer’s latest book, Darwin’s…
How is plagiarism detected? Let’s say a student claims to have written an original paper, but his teacher discovers that much of it appears to be identical, save for few words here and there, and a few paragraph modifications, to a paper she discovered on the internet. Would this not be excellent evidence that the…