The Country Shrink on November 14th, 2009

Scientific hypotheses can come from anywhere at all (well actually just from an intelligent mind).  One important thing I learned about science in graduate school was, it did not matter where your hypothesis originated, it only mattered that it could be tested and falsified in a rigorous, repeatable, and measurable way.  Scientific notions can arise [...]

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The Country Shrink on November 8th, 2009

Jerry Bergman has written an article on CMI entitled, Did immune system antibody diversity evolve?
From the article:

The voluminous research on the evolution of the adaptive immune system describes in enormous detail both the similarities and differences between the immune systems of a wide variety of animals, but does not provide evidence for the evolution [...]

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The Country Shrink on March 14th, 2009

You never thought you would hear me say something like this, but I’m saying it now. Richard Dawkins deserves some credit for his most recent book, A Devil’s Chaplain. Now, I haven’t even read the book, and probably won’t unless I can find a used copy somewhere. But, I just wanted to [...]

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The Country Shrink on February 14th, 2009

Over at Atheism is Dead, there are two very well written recent posts on the creation myths of atheists by means of cosmology. They are fairly long posts, but worth the time to read.
In the Beginning… Cosmology, Part I – The Pre Big Bang Scenario
In the Beginning… Cosmology, Part II – Book, Chapter and [...]

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The Country Shrink on December 16th, 2008

The notion of supervenience is that, “A set of properties A supervenes upon another set B just in case no two things can differ with respect to A-properties without also differing with respect to their B-properties. In slogan form, “there cannot be an A-difference without a B-difference”. (1) So, this notion when combined with physicalism [...]

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The Country Shrink on November 8th, 2008

RC Sproul talks humanism (1), existentialism (2), and Descartes (3). Even if you’re not a Christian, he gives some interesting history lessons.
(1). Humanism
(2). Existentialism
(3). Descartes pt 1

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The Country Shrink on November 8th, 2008

Denyse O’Leary recently wrote about an ongoing debate (December 7-8, 2008) about Intelligent Design vs. evolution. (1)
Atheist philosopher Bradley Morton said in an ID the Future Podcast:
“I actually find some of the intelligent design arguments at least somewhat plausible, and at least taking seriously within academia, and I’m unhappy with the unfair and false criticisms [...]

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The Country Shrink on November 5th, 2008

My wife is the more philosophically trained individual in our household–she teaches philosophy and logic.
She (The Christian Scribbler) has written 3 posts that may be of interest from a philosophical perspective:
Apologetics; The Teleological Argument for God
Apologetics; The Cosmological Argument for God
The Ontological Argument for God
Apologetics; The Moral Argument for God…

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The Country Shrink on October 8th, 2008

I think all good science employs a basic concept.  That is challenging the assumptions of other theories.  Intelligent Design challenges the assumption that life could arise solely from natural processes.  Creation science challenges the assumptions of the uniformitarian views of the Earth and the Universe.
The case of Gregor Mendel1 is a case in point.
At first [...]

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The Country Shrink on September 2nd, 2008

In a previous comment I wrote:
If God has no love, but is powerful, I’m not interested. If He has love, but no power, that interesting, but of little significance (he’s a cosmic puppy dog–dyslexia?). If He has no goodness but interest in humans, he’s a powerful and cruel dictator. If He is not just, but [...]

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