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Prager University: Four “new” arguments for the existence of God

Here we have Frank Pastore, former professional baseball player (and atheist) who, once becoming religious, jumped the rails when he went to the evangelical Biola University. This all explains his video (below) giving four “new” arguments for the existence of God. Pastore died in 2012, but these arguments weren’t new even then; all of them are long-familar … Continue reading Prager University: Four “new” arguments for the existence of God

WEIT joins Oxford’s “Landmark Science” series

I haven’t rewritten WEIT, and, sadly, didn’t have time to write a new foreword to the book, but it’s just joined the Oxford University Press’s “Landmark Science” Series, acquiring a spiffy new cover (the design of all the covers is similar): Here’s a complete list: Daniel Nettle: Personality Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene Dawkins: The Extended Phenotype … Continue reading WEIT joins Oxford’s “Landmark Science” series

My TAM interview, part 3

Here’s the last bit of the three-part interview I did at the July TAM with Joel Guttormson, Outreach and Event Coordinator for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. By the way, since I’ve read Addy Pross’s short book What is Life? How Chemistry Becomes Biology, I’ve realized that abiogenesis (the origin of life from … Continue reading My TAM interview, part 3

Weekly reader beefs

For some reason, most of the non-published comments this week came from evolution deniers, although, as usual, a few trickled in from outraged citizens of Lebanon, Missouri. Here’s a selection of four that didn’t make it to prime time. Reader “Jimmy” comments on “Baleen whales: a lovely transitional form“: What a load of old cods!!! With this … Continue reading Weekly reader beefs

Paul Davies, chemistry, and the origin of life

How the unique properties of life originated from inert matter is still one of the great unsolved problems of biology. Creationists, of course, claim that our failure to solve it means that God did it: as Ingersoll noted in yesterday’s quote, “Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.” And perhaps we’ll never know … Continue reading Paul Davies, chemistry, and the origin of life