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I highly recommend this video.Let me give you a bit on where I am coming from. I was raised in an evangelical Christian home.I did my undergraduate work at Duke University in physics, a doctorate in astrophysics atCornell. I then took two master’s degrees in biblical studies at Faith and Biblical Seminaries,with additional work at…

A terrific image of the complexity of the cell. Flowering plants may be 100 million years older than previously thought. Another example of incredible “convergent evolution”…that is, when a unique element in different species simply doesn’t fit on any evolutionary tree, so evolution must have figured out how to do it multiple times! A Harvard…

  Another professor argues that math has no objective truth. See this link. So far, this kind of attack on math and logic as arbitrary Western constructs is a minority view of extreme postmodernists, but it seems to be growing. Discovery Institute engages in lengthy debate on whale evolution. See this Youtube video. Will Amazon clutter the night sky…

To see the videos of our past meeting, on the topic of “Does Anyone Come to Faith by a Rational Process?”, go to this link. You must be logged in as a full or associate member to see the link. Alternatively, you can go directly to the offsite host, and pay to see one or…

Ongoing debate about whether the Cambrian explosion was really abrupt. See this article on Discovery’s Evolution News and Views website. This relates to the argument of Stephen Meyer in his book, Darwin’s Doubt, that the Cambrian explosion is to all appearances miraculous. Another person argues that she does not exist, See this link. This is becoming a common…

Proposal for censorship of scientific journals to prevent intelligent design from being published. See this summary on Discovery’s Evolution News and Views website. Article in Scientific American says earth-like planets may be extremely rare, See this link. DNA replication inspires advances in computer science. See this tweet from member Fuz Rana. A hot debate breaks out over thermodynamics…