By: Sean Pitman . Dr. Nicholas J. Matzke started out as geography grad student at the University of California in Santa Barbara who had obvious passions outside of geography. He then went on to become fairly well-known debating on Talk.Orgins.org, where I first ran into him myself and had several lengthy discussions. Since then, Nick has…
The Debate: Dr. Jason Rosenhouse is an associate professor of mathematics at James Madison University in Virginia. In his spare time, he enjoys engaging in the debate over Creation vs. Evolution and has even written an interesting book about his experiences visiting creation events around the United States entitled, “Among the Creationists.” I personally enjoyed…
by Sean Pitman . Richard E. Lenski is an American evolutionary biologist, best known for his 25-year long-term E. coli evolution experiment and his work with digital organisms using Avida. What is impressive about Dr. Lenski is that he is trying to show how random mutations and natural selection (the Darwinian mechanism for evolution) can…
by Sean Pitman . It is most interesting to hear the argument, from judges and scientists, that the concept of “Intelligent Design” is a religious concept that is immune from and outside of the realm of scientific investigation. This is interesting because several mainstream sciences are based on the ability to determine, scientifically, that certain…
by Sean Pitman . The concept of methodological naturalism is foundational for most mainstream scientists. It is most commonly defined as a philosophical doctrine that claims, a priori, that for any study of the world around us to quality as “scientific”, no reference to God or to any kind of supernatural intervention is allowed. Of…