A Naturalistic Fairy Tale-Part VI

And then did there exist a “warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, &c., present, that a proteine (sic) compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes, at the present day such matter would be instantly absorbed, which would not have been the case before [...]

A Naturalistic Fairy Tale-Part V

And then was there thought for a long time to be a giant impact upon the Earth that resulted in the moon. (1) Or later, perhaps not. (2) Indeed, the Earth was in fact very different from today. There were no oceans and no oxygen. Then was the Earth bombarded by [...]

On Christian Views of Creationism–Part IV (Continued: Young Earth Creationism)

In Part II, I laid out an overview of Young Earth Creationism (YEC), and in Part III, I began addressing some of the controversy with YEC. I will continue addressing the controversy and potential problems with YEC in this post.
Radiocarbon Dating
Radiocarbon dating is used for dating the age of fossils or formerly living matter [...]

On Christian Views of Creationism–Part III (Continued: Young Earth Creationism)

In Part II, I gave a basic summary of the view of Young Earth Creationism. In this section, I’ll discuss some of the controversies.
Catastrophe versus Uniformitarianism
That naturalist viewpoint is that the rate at which geological and other natural processes occur today, is the rate at which these things have always occurred (geological changes, formation [...]

Some Basic Concepts in Intelligent Design

Hallmarks of Design
I’ve written before about how things that are designed exhibit function or specific complexity.  I’ll give a definition in a bit more detail here.
Systems that are of high complexity, that is functionally integrated multicomponent systems, systems that are of high specificity where only one or very few of many possible arrangements of these [...]

A Naturalistic Fairy Tale–Part IV

And did then the Earth form from the same disc cloud that the Sun formed. And so did the mass and gravitational pull of the Earth increase. And did metorites impact frequently, creating a “hellish” early Earth. Plate techtonics did completely destroy the evidence of this early Hell. But the “Hell” [...]

A Naturalistic Fairy Tale–Part III

And then, things cooled off.  Matter coalesced into suns and planets.  And then was there a nearby supernova.  Squeezing the clouds of dust.  The squeezing made the clouds of dust coalesce, and gravity pulled the clouds together.  The clouds began to spin as it began to collapse.  Eventually, this cloud grew heavier and denser in [...]

Considering Design and Nanotechnology

I ran across a very interesting story that dates back to 2003.  It was on a site that has a focus of advancing nanotechnology.  There is a very interesting interview with a Japanese researcher studying the bacterial flagellum.  The researcher appears to utilizing the aspect of applied science where I think ID theory fits very [...]

Recent interesting work on ID

Intelligent Design the Future, has a good podcast on homology.
Listen here: http://www.idthefuture.com/2008/07/neodarwinisms_homology_problem_1.html
ID the Future: Mystery of Life’s Origins Podcast
Listen here: http://www.idthefuture.com/2008/07/the_mystery_of_lifes_origin_an.html
Vocal Vestial Organs?
Read here: http://www.icr.org/article/3972/

A Simple Perceptual Test and Intelligent Design

Atheists and purely naturalistic evolutionists accept or reject teleological principles on the basis of their worldviews.  Whereas those who view things from a Intelligent Design perspective are logically consistent with their views on teleology.  As an illustration, I’ll lay out a simple perceptual test.
The question for each picture is, “Does this appear to have been [...]