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Webinar on “Quantum Mechanics for Non-experts”, May 4, 2024
Read more: Webinar on “Quantum Mechanics for Non-experts”, May 4, 2024This event aims to give a non-technical introduction to quantum mechanics, and discuss its diverse interpretations, such as “many-worlds”, and the role that consciousness plays in measurements.
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Scientist finds evidence for intelligent design in genetic information, claims it is evidence we live in a simulation
Read more: Scientist finds evidence for intelligent design in genetic information, claims it is evidence we live in a simulationWhen reading the details of this paper, one finds: Are “living inside a computer simulation” people simply Intelligent Design advocates in a different form? More detailed analysis: 1) They assume a total entropy given by the number of states of the underlying atoms *plus* the number of relational states between the atoms created by “writing”…
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Abstracts for the Biola meeting, “In Defense of Truth”
Read more: Abstracts for the Biola meeting, “In Defense of Truth”Below are the final abstracts and bios for the meeting. 9:00 AM SESSION 1: “Thinking about Truth” 9:00 AM. David Snoke, University of Pittsburgh “How did we get here? A brief overview of modernism, postmodernism, and post-post-modernism” Abstract: Many people are reacting against “critical theory” at present, and to the general attack on the legacy of…
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Videos of the COVID meeting now available
Read more: Videos of the COVID meeting now availableThe videos of the talks at the recent meeting in Pittsburgh on COVID are now available for free on YouTube. The links can be found at this page, also easily found by going to the Resources/Videos tab on the CSS site. The bios of the speakers can be found at this post. Unfortunately, video of…
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Review of the meeting on extraterrestrials
Read more: Review of the meeting on extraterrestrialsI’ve heard a lot of positive feedback from those who attended the meeting on Saturday. For those who missed it, the video should be available in a few weeks. Here are some of my impressions and responses. We heard good scientific arguments from Bijan Nemati and Jay Richards that from a purely naturalistic standpoint, the…
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Review of God’s Good Earth
Read more: Review of God’s Good EarthJon Garvey, God’s Good Earth, (https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Good-Earth-Jon-Garvey/dp/1532652003/) In my talk for the webinar, I mentioned this book by Jon Garvey. Subtitled “The case for an unfallen creation”, it arguues for just that: that the physical created world is not “fallen” at all, but just as God designed it, and very good. Many of the points he makes…