Are you familiar with the Discovery Institute in Seattle, WA?
They have interesting articles on a number of scientific topics, including up-to-date information on intelligent design research, as well as science and culture.
“Are you familiar with the Discovery Institute in Seattle, WA?”
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Yes...and smart enough to know that any in-depth discussion over the issues they cover leads to one or more FReepers getting suspended or banned.
“Are you familiar with the Discovery Institute in Seattle, WA?”
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Yes...and smart enough to know that any in-depth discussion over the issues they cover leads to one or more FReepers getting suspended or banned.
Haven’t been up to Seattle lately. I used to live in SF where they have the Exploratorium and currently volunteer at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) in Portland. So short answer, no.
Question since you brought up Intelligent Design (and I ask this as someone who studied with Catholics who got burned by the whole Galileo thing (and I don’t mean the original ones, I’m not that old)): should we circumscribe God’s power based on what our current understanding of science is?
Let me explain. In Galileo’s time, the Catholic Church taught that it was “impossible” for God to creat a solar system such that it appeared (to us mere mortals) that we lived on an immovable Earth and the Sun rose around us (rising in the East and setting in the West). Turns out that it is entirely possible for God to do this. In fact he has. He has created a system where it feels to us like we are not moving but in fact we are on a planet which is rotating on its axis which rotating around the sun.
So I (to make a long story somewhat longer) am not a big fan of saying that God can or can’t, must or mustn’t do something.