UFOs and worldview: Sci-fi headlines lead us to contemplate the deeper things in life.
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“Congress recently held hearings on the subject of UFOs…. numerous claims were made by those called before the subcommittee, including by former military or intelligence personnel.” - Breakpoint
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“Science is a powerful way to gain knowledge about the natural world but it has limits and is provisional.”
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Lessons from Blaise Pascal - Reasons to Believe
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400 years ago, philosopher Blaise Pascal was one of the first to grapple with the role of faith in an age of science and reason
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“Whatever one’s religious beliefs, Pascal teaches that all individuals have to make a choice between faith in some reality beyond themselves or a life without belief. But a life without belief is also a choice, and in Pascal’s view, a bad bet.” - The Conversation
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Worries mount about misinformation in science
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“ ‘The real problem isn’t people. It’s the reward structure on social platforms’…. the incentives for scientists to publish and for journals to attract readers, jargon and other features of scientific publishing — can also contribute” - Axios
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P&D Podcast: Should We Heal or Pray? A Defense of Modern Medicine
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“We had an interesting conversation about his article which surveyed the history of Christian attitudes towards medicine and its practice….What should we think about medicine from a Christian point of view?” - P&D
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Is Social Science ‘Science’?
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“Jason Blakely is professor of political science at Pepperdine University and has written a book, We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power, that is likely to perturb some, gratify others, but interest almost everyone.” - Acton
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Answering Answers in Genesis: What is Young Earth Evolution?
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“as I will demonstrate, all young earth creationist scientists incorporate, and this is really important, modified evolutionary ideas, even if its ever so slight, into their creationist frameworks, and AiG is no exception.” - Ken Coulson
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No, Humans Aren’t 99% Chimp
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“Even if this pseudo-scientific meme were true, it is rarely stated or received as a mere fact. Instead, it is used to imply things about human beings: that we are the sum of our DNA” - Breakpoint
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The Big Bang says nothing about the creation of the cosmos
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“the Big Bang never tells us where it all comes from. If you want to know how the Universe was actually created, you need something else, something more.” - Big Think
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