How Should Christians Talk About Origins In Public Square? [Podcast]

When it comes to talking about evolution, creation, intelligent design, science, and faith in the public square, how should we do that as Christians? What should our priorities be? How do we have conviction and wisdom? Are there certain tactics that might be helpful? How can we better equip our youth to think about questions of origins? Is theistic evolution a viable option for Christians? This and more…

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Is there really no debate about evolution today?

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Darwin’s Doubt with Eric Metaxas and Stephen Meyer (Video)

Here is an excellent video on Darwinian evolution, Intelligent Design and Science. It took place at Socrates in the City. Enjoy!

“Darwin’s Doubt” with Stephen Meyer from Socrates in the City on Vimeo.

“In the origin of species, Darwin openly acknowledges important weaknesses in his theory and professed his own doubts about key aspects of it. Yet today’s public defenders of a Darwin-only science curriculum apparently do not want these, or any other scientific doubts about contemporary Darwinian theory, reported to students. This book addresses Darwin’s most significant doubt . . . and how a seemingly isolated anomaly that Darwin acknowledged almost in passing has grown to become illustrative of a fundamental problem for all of evolutionary biology.” —FROM THE PROLOGUE

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Darwin’s Doubt by Stephen Meyer Releases Today (Video)

A must read book releases today – Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design

When Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, he thought that he had explained every clue, but one. Though his theory could explain many facts, Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. During this event, the “Cambrian explosion,” many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock.

In Darwin’s Doubt, Stephen C. Meyer tells the story of the mystery surrounding this explosion of animal life—a mystery that has intensified, not only because the expected ancestors of these animals have not been found, but because scientists have learned more about what it takes to construct an animal. During the last half century, biologists have come to appreciate the central importance of biological information—stored in DNA and elsewhere in cells—to building animal forms.

Expanding on the compelling case he presented in his last book, Signature in the Cell, Meyer argues that the origin of this information, as well as other mysterious features of the Cambrian event, are best explained by intelligent design, rather than purely undirected evolutionary processes.

Stephen Meyer unpacks the thesis of the book.

Learn more at Darwin’s Doubt Website

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Turns Out Most DNA Is Not Junk After All

“The thought before the start of the project, said Thomas Gingeras, an Encode researcher from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, was that only 5 to 10 percent of the DNA in a human being was actually being used.

The big surprise was not only that almost all of the DNA is used but also that a large proportion of it is gene switches. Before Encode, said Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos, a University of Washington scientist who was part of the project, “if you had said half of the genome and probably more has instructions for turning genes on and off, I don’t think people would have believed you.”

By the time the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, embarked on Encode, major advances in DNA sequencing and computational biology had made it conceivable to try to understand the dark matter of human DNA. Even so, the analysis was daunting — the researchers generated 15 trillion bytes of raw data. Analyzing the data required the equivalent of more than 300 years of computer time.” – (read the rest here)

Listen to Dr. Fuz Rana’s analysis here.

Other great analysis and the validation of the design inference here.