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…
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…