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News & Views

News & Views

News & Views

Here you can read selected articles relating to faith, evolution, and intelligent design taken from the daily news and commentary service Evolution News and Views.

Reading Suggestions for Aquinas’ Five Ways: Michael Egnor; October 16, 2019

Aquinas’ Third Way: An Analogy to Moonlight: Michael Egnor; October 15, 2019

Irrefutable, Impeccable, Inescapable: Aquinas’ Second Way: Michael Egnor; October 14, 2019

Essence and Existence in Modern Science: Michael Egnor; October 12, 2019

Essence and Existence: The Cornerstone of Thomistic Metaphysics: Michael Egnor; October 11, 2019

Aquinas’ First Way and a Stack of Books: Michael Egnor; October 4, 2019

Introducing Aquinas’ Five Ways: Michael Egnor; October 3, 2019

Evolution Has Not Been Kind to Jerry Coyne: Michael Egnor; September 30, 2019

“Who Designed the Designer?”: Egnor Addresses a Perennial Challenge: David Klinghoffer; September 27, 2019

Jerry Coyne on Our “Divinity Sense Organs”: Michael Egnor; September 26, 2019

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Christian Scientific Society Regional Meeting

_{Featuring Drs. Stephen C. Meyer and Brian Miller of the Center for Science & Culture}_{Stephen C. Meyer
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Come hear Dr. Stephen Meyer, along with other distinguished speakers, present at the Christian Scientific Society's (CSS) regional meeting in Southern California on March 10-11! The theme of the meeting is Emergence, Spontaneous Pattern Formation, and the Origin of Life. Dr. Meyer, director of Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture, will speak on the origin of life and the evidence for intelligent design. Dr. Brian Miller, physicist and Research Director at the Center for Science & Culture, will discuss thermodynamics as it relates to the origin of life and information. WHEN: March 10-11, 2019 WHERE:Biola UniversityCalvary Chapel13800 Biola AveLa Mirada, CA 90639 The meeting is free to full and associate members of the CSS and $20 …

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The Biggest Myths about Science and Faith

_{Historian of science Michael Keas explodes some of the most popular and pernicious myths about science and religion.}_{Michael Newton Keas
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2019
Denton Bible Church
Denton, TX}

Scientists love to tell stories about the quest to understand the universe — stories that often have profound implications for belief or disbelief in God. But more often than not, the stories are nothing but myths. Join us as Michael Keas, a historian of science and Senior Fellow of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture, explodes some of the most popular and pernicious myths about science and religion.

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Aslan is on the Move

_{Stephen Meyer Presents at the C. S. Lewis Society Annual Banquet}_{The Center for Science and Culture
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2019
Calvary Church
Clearwater, FL}

The C. S. Lewis Society, on the campus of Trinity College of Florida, provides a guest-speaker forum for the campus community to hear scholars articulate topics of wide public concern. In this upcoming event, Dr. Stephen Meyer, Director of the Center for Science and Culture, will speak on the inescapable evidence of exquisite design in the cosmos. After bestsellers Signature in the Cell (2009) and Darwin's Doubt (2013), he is now exploring the startling evidence for God in his forthcoming title, The Return of the God Hypothesis (2020). This is a fundraising event for the work of the Florida-based C. S. Lewis Society, and each attendee will have the opportunity to support the work of the Society with a donation. When Thursday, October 10, 2019, starting at 6:30 …

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Why Truth Still Matters

_{2019 SES National Conference on Christian Apologetics}_{The Center for Science and Culture
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2019
Calvary Church
Charlotte, NC}

Stephen Meyer, Director of the Center for Science and Culture, is scheduled to speak at the upcoming National Conference on Christian Apologetics presented by Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, NC. The theme this year — Why Truth Still Matters — will feature a variety of sessions from scientists, philosophers, and theologians. Dr. Meyer's sessions are listed below, and a full line-up of speakers and sessions can be found at https://conference.ses.edu/. Darwin's Doubt Saturday, October 12 | 11:15 am - 12:10 pm In this presentation, Dr. Meyer tells the story of the mystery surrounding the "Cambrian explosion" of animal life in the fossil record — a mystery that has intensified, not only because the expected ancestors of these animals have not been found, but …

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Dallas Conference on Science and Faith 2020

_{John G. West
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Dallas, TX}

According to a nationwide survey, more than two-thirds of atheists and one-third of agnostics believe that “the findings of science make the existence of God less probable,” while nearly half of self-identified theists believe “the findings of science are neutral with regard to the existence of God.” But what if there is another option? What if the discoveries of science actually lend support to belief in God? Tackle this question head-on at the upcoming Dallas Conference on Science and Faith 2020 on January 25. Held on the campus of Denton Bible Church, the conference will explore exciting scientific discoveries about the origin of the universe, the origin of life, and the development of biological complexity, as well as critique the scientific and cultural impact of …