Before officially releasing my Intelligent Alien Design video on YouTube (where the geanie can’t be put back in the bottle), I’m making the following change of this:
In fact, the Discovery Institute has managed to convince a few high-level politicians to inject Intelligent Design theory directly into the public science classroom under the guise of academic freedom.
To this:
In fact, [...]

Very persistent this individual — I like him!
Q1.  Ok, so on your view, I.D. is only science if coupled with a material cause (e.g. panspermia).
A1.  Now we’re splitting hairs over definitions. I.D. can’t be scientific by itself if it only concerns itself with agency, but a material hypothesis like panspermia can at least be investigated [...]

Q1. Why should one assume that God created the universe with the requisite properties for all material complexities, including life, to emerge without his direct intervention? It doesn’t seem to be a widely held view by professional Christian philosophers (to my limited understanding), even those who are evolutionists (e.g. Swineburne, Plantinga).
A1.  Because that’s just how [...]

I don’t typically do a lot of book reviews or make many book recommendations, but I just finished Denis Lamoureux’s Evolutionary Creation and I feel compelled to promote it to my readership.  In fact, the whole time I was reading EC, I felt as though I were reading an expanded scholarly edition of Beyond the Firmament.  [...]

Last weekend, we left the D.C. Metro area and headed a couple hours west to the caves of western Virginia.  The geology of the Blue Ridge caverns is truly amazing.  The ancient Grenville mountain range was thrust up over 1 billion years ago by the collision of the North American plate and the ancient continent of Baltica, [...]