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God and the Odds of ET

Jan 13, 2025 | evolutionnews.org | Jonathan Witt

Next generation space telescopes from NASA and the European Space Agency are ushering in a golden age of deep space exploration, putting us on the verge of answering an old question: Are there other thinking, speaking creatures living on faraway planets? Taking the question in steps and focusing on our corner of the universe, astrobiologists are asking: Do other stars in our galaxy have rocky, earthlike planets at the right distance from their host stars to nurture life?
Evolutionary Flimflam | Evolution News

Dec 19, 2024 | evolutionnews.org | Jonathan Witt

I suspect the average person comes to accept modern evolutionary theory, not through a series of careful arguments, but through a near-constant drip of pro-evolution propaganda. The propaganda comes in many forms and from many directions. Here I want to focus on just one source, popular news stories about evolution, and specifically on a couple of parlor tricks often embedded in these articles.
Guillermo Gonzalez

Sep 23, 2024 | discovery.org | Guillermo Gonzalez |Jonathan Witt |Stephen Meyer

IDTF-1958-Guillermo-Gonzalez-Love-of-Astronomy-Explorers-Podcast-Interview-Post-Graphic Guillermo Gonzalez on His Love For Astronomy landscape-with-milky-way-galaxy-earth-and-aurora-view-from-space-with-milky-way-galaxy-elements-of-this-image-furnished-by-nasa-stockpack-adobe-stock Guillermo Gonzalez on 20th Anniversary Edition of The Privileged Planet In 2004, Dr. Jay Richards and Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez published a bold hypothesis: not only is Planet Earth well-suited for advanced life like...
A Universe Charged with Meaning and Purpose

Aug 29, 2024 | idthefuture.com | Jonathan Witt

Episode 1947 With Andrew McDiarmid Guest(s) Jonathan Witt Duration 00:37:43 Download Audio File (51.8 mb) Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flipboard Print https://chrt.fm/track/G42895/idthefuture.com/podcast-player/42457/1947.mp3 Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 00:37:43 | In 1936, Albert Einstein wrote that “the fact that [the world] is comprehensible is a miracle.” But why is the universe comprehensible to us? And is it an evolutionary fluke or a hallmark of design? On this...
When Materialism Turns on Its Own

Jun 20, 2024 | evolutionnews.org | Jonathan Witt

“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.”Hosea 8:7These are dark days. Ideological campaigns against sanity deny everything from the objectivity of arithmetic and the binary of male and female to, more recently, the moral truth that promoting genocide of the Jews is unambiguously evil. But there is a small silver lining in this dark cloud. First some background.
Darwin’s Racism of the Gaps

May 29, 2024 | evolutionnews.org | Jonathan Witt

In the wake of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859), thought leaders in Europe and the United States used his theory of evolution by natural selection to justify violent and dehumanizing treatment of non-whites around the globe.1 This much is well known. Less widely recognized is that Darwin’s case for ape-to-man evolution rested in no small part on his racist view of non-whites.
There Are New Atheists in Foxholes, Part 1

May 25, 2024 | stream.org | William A. Dembski |Tom Sileo |Brandon Aldinger |Jonathan Witt

Richard Dawkins has an endearing habit of rewriting history. For almost four decades, from the mid-1970s onward, he wrote of the human genome as mainly junk. It suited his Darwinism to do so, underscoring how evolution cobbles living forms together opportunistically, and that waste and inefficiencies in the genome are simply part of the messy process that is Darwinian evolution, focused as it is on natural selection acting on random variations.
science and faith

May 21, 2024 | discovery.org | Guillermo Gonzalez |Jonathan Witt |Melissa Cain Travis |Andrew McDiarmid

farm-at-the-center-cover-scaled Faith & Science, Intelligent Design The Farm at the Center of the Universe Faith & Science, Intelligent Design Why did Isaac’s father have to die so young? Isaac’s older cousin Charlie — a science teacher — says he knows why. Nature is pitiless. There’s no God. No afterlife. Just atoms in the void and the struggle for survival. Charlie says a week at their grandparents’ farm, seeing animals get killed and eaten, will prove it.
Learning By Doing Is An Important Part Of Career Development

Apr 12, 2024 | mondaq.com | Jonathan Witt

A recent conversation with a Foley colleague reminded me of a key lesson I learned as a junior attorney from a senior partner in my practice group: Take a position on an issue, be ready to defend it, and learn along the way. It brought back a flood of memories of the times I had approached this senior partner to get their thoughts on certain issues in an agreement markup I was working on.
The Gods Must Be Tidy! by Jonathan Witt

Apr 9, 2024 | touchstonemag.com | Jonathan Witt

Feature Is the Cosmos a Work of Poor Engineering or the Gift of an Artistic Designer? by Jonathan Witt When as a boy I read “The Scouring of the Shire” near the end of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, I could not understand why Tolkien felt the need to tack on such an anti-climactic and shabby bit of evil.