A panel discussion with Stephen Barr, Colin Purrington, and Jeff Schloss, moderated by Peter Dodson, at the 2006 Metanexus symposium “Beyond Intelligent Design.”
T. Boone Pickens promotes natural gas for energy security and as a bridge to alternatives in this 2012 TED talk.
Ian Barbour lecture at Metanexus conference on understanding the rise of the Intelligent Design movement. Ian Barbour: “Beyond Intelligent Design, Science Debates, and Culture Wars” – the opening lecture for this series from Metanexus Institute Author Ian Barbour Throughout his career, Ian Barbour has been at the forefront of the dialogue between scientists and theologians….
Julian Barbour and Tim Maudlin argue their opposite positions at the Foundational Questions Institute’s setting Time Aright conference.
In The Design Inference (Cambridge, 1998) I argue that specified complexity is a reliable empirical marker of intelligent design. A long sequence of random letters is complex without being specified. A short sequence of letters like “the,” “so,” or “a” is specified without being complex. A Shakespearean sonnet is both complex and specified. Thus in…
It has been an exciting five days. Metanexus, CTNS, and the AAAS have made a large tent Chattauqua meeting here at Haverford, where theologians, philosophers, and scientists could meet, exchange ideas, and have time to speak personally with representatives from differing groups. We have been able to put faces to the articles and books that…
An excerpt from Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything” animated and narrated.