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Intelligent Design, Evolution and the Theistic Perspective.

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What Is The Ultimate, Enduring Hope Of The Atheist?

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(EDIT ADDITION: The content of this post was removed twice by moderators when I posted it on a discussion forum thread. No explanation was given. I made appeal to the moderators. I received no response, except a warning that if I continued to post it I would be banned from the forum.)

Jesus gives Christians hope for living after this temporal life is over. Not even death can take away the Christian's hope. Even the Christian's temporal life ends and in many cases leaves behind so much grief and sense of loss for others, the Christian departed continues to live in a transcendent dimensional reality, a real place where there is no pain, no tears, no confusion....only a humbled amazement, a joyful vindication, a grande awe of the glory and presence of the one true God of creation, of justice...and of grace. Now, let's see what the hope of the atheist is.

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Who Was Jesse Kilgore?

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In October, young college student and Christian Jessie Kilgore took his own life on Oct 7, 2008 after reading Richard Dawkin's book "The God Delusion". He was 22 years old.


Whatever the additional circumstances were, it would appear that the reading of Dawkin's book "The God Delusion" contributed to the hopelessness that he felt about life at the moment he pulled the trigger. It's unfortunate as well, that Jessie was (evidently) singled out for his Christian faith, mercilessly and heartlessly challenged (or required) by a college biology professor to read a book that was not a science book, and in fact was not even in the school curriculum. What this was, was a an atheist teacher who was threatened by the Christian faith of Jessie Kilgore, wishing to snuff out his faith...to silence Jessie Kilgore.

The biology professor got what he wanted. Jesse Kilgore was silenced. He committed suicide.

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From Darwin To Hitler



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Codex Sinaiticus: Gospel Of Mark long ending missing! Does this have implications that atheists hope for?

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Recently it was big news that the world's oldest Bible, the Codex Sinaiticus, would be digitized and made available online. Some atheists are celebrating the fact that the codex does not contain the longer ending of the Gospel of Mark (which is considered by many as the earliest gospel account), that longer ending containing details about the resurrection and post-resurrection eyewitness accounts. This, in their view constitutes evidence that the resurrection did not happen and was a later editorial addition to the Bible. Was it? Is it evidence that the other gospel accounts are not accurate? And is it evidence that the Resurrection of Jesus Christ did not occur? Let's see!

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Dogbert On Evolution

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What is NO-God-Of-The-Gaps?

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A God-of-the-Gaps argument is when there is a gap in knowledge, God is introduced as some automatic, knee-jerked explanation. ID is not like a God-of-the-Gap argument, since it is based on what is known (the known effects that intelligent agents leave behind as evidence of their activity, the observation that intelligence always comes from prior intelligence, the existence of complex, specified information as an artifact of intelligence etc etc...). Some features of the universe and of living things that are best explained by design include the apparent fine-tuning of the universe, the link between habitability and scientific observability, the complex, specified information in DNA and beginning of the universe (all that is natural), including time itself, from absolute nothing (this being more of a philosophical argument than a scientific one). Now what is a NO-God-of-the-Gaps argument? Let's expose this little gem for what it really is....

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New Science Text "Explore Evolution" Providing Both Sides Of The Issue, To Be Used In US Secondary Schools and Colleges



As students around the country gear up to head back to classes and homework, some of them will be learning the complete story of evolution for the first time. Adopted by secondary schools and colleges, Explore Evolution (Hill House Publishers, 2007), the first biology textbook to present the arguments for and against neo-Darwinism, is invigorating the study of biology for a new generation of budding scientists.

Explore Evolution has been featured in Science, was on the cover of WORLD Magazine, and received a favorable review from Kirkus Discoveries, which noted Explore Evolution's "substantive food for thought about natural selection and universal common descent."

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Finally, an honest science text pertaining to evolution. Now that's good science!

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To Africa And Back Again

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My trip to Africa and back.

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BANTAY & DL031312 Make Predictions- Which Way Does The Evidence Point?

Recently, an agnostic debate opponent, a likeable, intelligent and most civil one at that, and I, have agreed to make predictions. I had proposed that they be scientific predictions, namely..."...3 to 5 year predictions, that data from astronomy, physics and cell biology will strengthen the case for chance, undirected natural causes or physical law.....And I would make predictions, 3 to 5 year predictions, that data from astronomy, physics and cell biology will continue to strengthen the case for design". Let's see what follows from all this...and what each others' predictions are.

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Faces Of Atheism

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Faces Of Atheism & The Face Of Love



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Would Intelligent ETs Deny Tenure To An ET Astrophysicist If He Proposed A Relation Between Habitability & Observability?

A recent web article from Discovery.com has reported that the AAS (American Astronomical Society) has proposed a "conceptual breakthrough"....That being, that intelligent ETs know we are here, would look only along their ecliptic for planets that showed signs of water and would automatically assume there is life if a planet with water was found. That's a conceptual breakthrough?

My own thoughts on this blurb are that they (at the American Astronomical Society) are implicitly taking credit for what Guillermo Gonzalez has researched a long time ago and recently persecuted for...That being, the relationship between habitablity and scientific observability.

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Academic Freedom Rockumentary Pt 1



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Why Is There Anything At All?

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Who Designed The Designer? W.L. Craig dispenses with the question's relevance....entirely.



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Dr Hugh Ross Dismantles Naturalistic Explanations, One After Another

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Intelligent Design Rockumentary

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Rock The World. Use Your Mind. Change The Paradigm.




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National Center for Science Education....Exposed!

According to NCSE board member Barbara Forrest, ID is a Trojan Horse for creationism. Since ID does not rely on any religious premise, I just can't see how it can be a Trojan horse, for anything really, unless design detection is something really really bad...but I think not. Rather, I'm beginning to wonder if the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) is the Trojan horse for materialist philosophy. Uhhmm....that sounds controversial....but it can't be! According to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, there is no controversy!

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TWO INTELLIGENT DESIGN PODCASTS... HERE!

NEW!! Listen to a podcast while you survey the ID BLOG this one presents EVIDENCES FOR INTELLIGENT DESIGN
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INTELLIGENT DESIGN- Something to Consider

"Should we seek objective truth in science, following wherever the evidence leads, even if it is outside of an existing scientific paradigm?



WHAT IS INTELLIGENT DESIGN? Intelligent Design is the assertion that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected processes. In a broader sense, Intelligent Design is simply the science of design detection — how to recognize patterns arranged by an intelligent cause for a purpose. Design detection is used in a number of scientific fields, including anthropology, forensic sciences that seek to explain the cause of events such as a death or fire, cryptanalysis and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). An inference that certain biological information may be the product of an intelligent cause can be tested or evaluated in the same manner as scientists daily test for design in other sciences.

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The Age Of The Machine Video



A very entertaining video here...

Cast:
Richard Dawkins
PZ Myers
Eugenie Scott
Daniel Dennett
Sam Harris

(curiously, even though there are digs at creationism, no ID proponents are portrayed in this video)
Video can also be viewed HERE.

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