2/18/2003 10:32:06 AM
Still Spinning Just Fine: A Response to Ken Miller, William A. Dembski
William Dembski responds to Ken Miller`s The Flagellum Unspun: The Collapse of Irreducible Complexity.
Category: Design | Subcategory: ID
10/30/2002 12:18:24 AM
Becoming a Disciplined Science: Prospects, Pitfalls, and Reality Check for ID, William A. Dembski
"Intelligent design`s instrumental good of renewing culture hinges on its intrinsic good of furthering science."
Category: Design | Subcategory: ID
9/24/2002 9:39:18 AM
Evolutionary Logic, William A. Dembski
Since the neo-Darwinian synthesis of the 1930s, evolutionary biology has become a growth industry. This growth has resulted in the demand for more flexible methods of establishing evolutionary biology`s grandiose claims...
Category: Design | Subcategory: ID
9/7/2002 4:24:55 PM
Naturalism`s Argument from Invincible Ignorance: A Response to Howard Van Till, William A. Dembski
William Dembski responds to Howard Van Till`s review of No Free Lunch. Van Til`s review is available via the AAAS: http://www.aaas.org/spp/dser/evolution/perspectives/default.htm and http://www.aaas.org/spp/dser/evolution/perspectives/vantillecoli.pdf.
Category: Design | Subcategory: ID
8/18/2002 12:01:24 PM
C.S. Lewis and the Euthyphro Dilemma, Steve Lovell
A demonstration that versions of Divine Command Theory exist which preserve God’s sovereignty over the moral realm without falling prey to two popular arguments against such positions: the Euthyphro dilemma, and Nielsen’s epistemological argument.
Category: Philosophy | Subcategory: Moral
8/12/2002
Did the Universe Begin to Exist, Paul Smith
The assumption of an infinite past leads us to a paradox: It probabilistically guarantees that the cosmos has a beginning.
Category: Philosophy | Subcategory: Cosmological
7/25/2002
Addicted to Caricatures: A Response to Brian Charlesworth, William A. Dembski
The journal Nature had Brian Charlesworth review Dembski`s book No Free Lunch in its 11 July 2002 issue. Dembski responds to that review here.
Category: Design | Subcategory: ID
7/20/2002
Eugenie Scott and the NCSE: Darwin's Predictable Defenders, William A. Dembski
William Dembski illustrates the shopworn natrue of the tactics of many common objections to ID in this response to a commentary by Eugenie Scott and Glenn Branch.
Category: Design | Subcategory: ID
7/16/2002
The Incompatibility of Naturalism and Scientific Realism, Dr. Robert C. Koons
In this essay, Koons argues that scientific realism can provide no support to philosophical naturalism. In fact, the situation is precisely the reverse: naturalism and scientific realism are incompatible.
Category: Philosophy | Subcategory: Epistemological
7/15/2002
Contradictions: Numerous, Theological, Chronological, Factual, Philosophical, Ethical, Eric M. Vestrup
A critical review by Eric Vestrup of Chapter 4 of Dennis McKinsey's Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy, addressing issues of scholarship and logic while answering 50+ allegations of Biblical contradiction.
Category: Scripture | Subcategory: Inerrancy
6/27/2002
Skepticism's Prospect for Unseating Intelligent Design, William A. Dembski
In the words of the author, "I believe that over the next 25 years intelligent design will provide skepticism with its biggest challenge yet. I want in this talk to sketch why I think that."
Category: Design | Subcategory: ID
4/10/2002
The Challenge (Flash Presentation), Brian Hearn (offsite)
Brian Hearn of Apologetics.net has created a beautiful Flash 5.0 presentation which walks the reader through a number of questions pertinent to whether a Personal Creator exists or not.
Category: Cosmological | Subcategory: Other
3/17/2001
The Jesus Mosaic: Was There an Historical Jesus?, Patrick Narkinksy
Earl Doherty and the "Christ Myth" camp hold that there was in fact no historical Jesus. In this essay, Patrick Narkinsky points out numerous errors in Doherty's methodology, and shows that it is not compatible with the actual historical evidence.
Category: Scripture | Subcategory: Reliability
2/28/2001
The Burial of Jesus, with Focus on the Views of the Jesus Seminar, Ryan Renn
Ryan Renn examines the arguments and the objections raised against the burial of Jesus, and offers strong arguments in favor of the historicity of Jesus' burial.
Category: Scripture | Subcategory: Reliability
2/28/2001
Daniel's Messiah in the Critics' Den, Steve Hinrichs
Steve Hinrich elucidates a detailed methodology for analyzing prophetic claims, and then applies this methodology to the Messianic prophecies of Daniel 9:24ff, then answers a number of critical objections to this prophecy.
Category: Scripture | Subcategory: Prophecy
2/28/2001
Faith and the Origin of Life, Steven Sawyer
Steve Sawyer critically examines abiogenesis: the idea that life originated from non-living matter in the sense that it arose naturalistically.
Category: Design | Subcategory: ID
2/27/2001
Jonathan Wells on Open Minded Research, Jonathan Wells
Jonathan Wells responds to criticisms of about his early motivations for investigating Darwinism.
Category: Design | Subcategory: ID
2/23/2001
Teaching Intelligent Design - What Happened When? A Response to Eugenie Scott, William A. Dembski
Design theorists argue that intelligent design constitutes a valid scientific research program aimed at understanding the effects of intelligence in the natural world.
Category: Design | Subcategory: ID
10/20/2000
Some Bible Difficulties Examined, Bryan S.
A conversation between two friends on the topic of Biblical difficulties
Category: Scripture | Subcategory: Inerrancy
9/18/2000
Explaining Improbable Phenomena, Paul Smith
Paul Smith asks whether it is even reasonable to inquire into the explanations for highly improbable phenomena.
Category: Design | Subcategory: ID
9/16/2000
Why I Believe in the Trinity, Jeffrey Kvistad
Jeff Kvistad responds to the Jehovah's Witness doctrines on the trinity
Category: Scripture | Subcategory: Hermeneutics
9/13/2000
Unreasonable Tolerance, Eric Matthew Vestrup
Eric Vestrup appeals to modern culture not to sacrifice intellectual honesty in the discussion of metaphysics.
Category: Philosophy | Subcategory: Cultural
9/12/2000
Materialism and a Consequence, Eric Matthew Vestrup
Eric Vestrup mathematically demonstrates an incompatibility between materialism and value statements.
Category: Philosophy | Subcategory: Moral
9/9/2000
A Screwtape Letter on Biblical Scholarship, Eric Matthew Vestrup
With apologies to C.S. Lewis, Vestrup takes a look at the presumptions of modern higher criticism through the eyes of a tempter.
Category: Scripture | Subcategory: Authority
8/30/2000
Ontology and the Curse, Paul Smith
One attempt to address the "death before the fall" issue from within an OEC paradigm.
Category: Scripture | Subcategory: Inerrancy
8/16/2000
An Open Letter to a Young Earth Creationist, Paul Smith
A response to an individual's concerns over Lee Strobel's approach to the argument from design.
Category: Design | Subcategory: OEC
7/23/2000
Teleology & Science, Mike Gene
An overview of how the concept of teleology relates to biological investigation and the origins debate.
Category: Design | Subcategory: ID
4/25/2000
Jesus' Secret Teachings, Brian Stanley
Brian Stanley answers the chage that Jesus prevaricated about whether He "taught in secret" or not.
Category: Scripture | Subcategory: Inerrancy
10/25/1999
Problems with Anderson's Daniel 9 Calculations, Paul Smith
Sir Robert Anderson's calculations regarding the fulfillment for Daniel 9:24ff may have some fatal flaws.
Category: Scripture | Subcategory: Prophecy
7/30/1998
The Revenge of Conscience, J. Budziszewski (offsite)
J. Budziszewski juxtaposes natural law with the slippery moral slope of recent decades.
Category: Philosophy | Subcategory: Moral
4/1/1996
The Origin of Life and the Death of Materialism, Stephen Meyer (offsite)
Stephen Meyer examines the naturalistic theories for the origin of life that have been proposed so far, and elucidates why none even approach being satisfactory.
Category: Design | Subcategory: ID