Did a Native American travel with the Vikings and arrive in Iceland centuries before Columbus set sail?

Did a Native American travel with the Vikings and arrive in Iceland centuries before Columbus set sail?

Birds of a Feather: Darwinian Evolution Stumped by Novel Features

Birds of a Feather: Darwinian Evolution Stumped by Novel Features

Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology

Infinity Is a Beautiful Concept – And It's Ruining Physics

Infinity Is a Beautiful Concept – And It's Ruining Physics

Infinity Is a Beautiful Concept – And It’s Ruining Physics

 By Max Tegmark

 Physics is all about predicting the future from the past, but inflation seems to sabotage this. When we try to predict the probability that something particular will happen, inflation always gives the same useless answer: infinity divided by infinity. The problem is that whatever experiment you make, inflation predicts there will be infinitely many copies of you, far away in our infinite space, obtaining each physically possible outcome; and despite years of teeth-grinding in the cosmology community, no consensus has emerged on how to extract sensible answers from these infinities. So, strictly speaking, we physicists can no longer predict anything at all!

Fox Image, New Jersey - National Geographic Photo of the Day

Fox Image, New Jersey - National Geographic Photo of the Day

Life in B Flat: Guillermo Gonzalez on the Fine-tuning of the Universe to Support Life

Guillermo Gonzalez on the Fine-tuning of the Universe to Support Life

On Guard Conference: Guillermo Gonzalez - Why is the Universe Fine-Tuned...

Immaterial Aspects of Thought by James Ross

Immaterial Aspects of Thought by James Ross

http://www3.nd.edu/~afreddos/courses/43151/ross-immateriality.pdf

ANIMAL cognition and desire, from the appetite of a clam to the optical systems of vultures and frigate birds, is supposed to have neurobiological explanations resultant from, if not reducible to, universal laws of physics. That is a minimal and modest project for epistemology naturalized, one to be assisted by specialized sciences.
There is a larger and bolder project of epistemology naturalized, namely, to explain human thought in terms available to physical science, particularly the aspects of thought that carry truth values, and have formal features, like validity or mathematical form. That project seems to have hit a stone wall, a difficulty so grave that philosophers dismiss the underlying argument, or adopt a cavalier certainty that our judgments only simulate certain pure forms and never are real cases of, e.g., conjunction, modus ponens, adding, or genuine validity. The difficulty is that, in principle, such truth-carrying thoughts2 cannot be wholly physical (though they might have a physical medium),3 because they have features that no physical thing or process can have at all.

The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Intelligent Life by Luke A. Barnes

The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Intelligent Life by Luke A. Barnes

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1112/1112.4647v1.pdf

Blowing the whistle: But, Emperor Evolutionary Materialist Scientism (by being self-falsifying) is parading around naked . . .

http://www.uncommondescent.com/atheism/blowing-the-whistle-but-emperor-evolutionary-materialist-scientism-by-being-self-falsifying-is-parading-around-naked

1] Truth does not exist (Is that a true statement?)

2] Nothing is absolute (Is that absolutely true?)

3] I do not exist (You must exist to deny that you exist)

4] Science is the only way to know (Can you scientifically prove that?)

5] Only what can be perceived by the five senses exists (Can you prove that by the five senses?)

6] Nobody can know anything for sure (Do you know that for sure?)

7] Nobody can know anything about God (How do you know that?)

8] Talk about God is meaningless (Since it is a statement about God, this statement is meaningless too)

9] Reality is just your interpretation, objective reality does not exist (That’s just your interpretation)

10] “‘Everything we think and do is the function of our genes/nervous system’”: Is this belief itself just the result of genetic/neutral activity? If so, why trust it — or any belief we have? If your belief happens to be right, it’s just by accident” [2]

11] There are no beliefs (You expect me to believe that?) [3]

12] Everything is meaningless (So is that statement)

Pseudogenes Shrink Gaps for Theistic Darwinian Evolutionists Collins & Giberson

On this episode of ID the Future, Casey Luskin discusses how theistic Darwinian evolutionists Francis Collins and Karl Giberson rely on the argument that pseudogenes are junk, "broken DNA." The pseudogene is their centerpiece evidence for common descent and macroevolution in their new book, The Language of Science and Faith. This leaves them hard-pressed as we learn more about biology, genetics and biochemistry, finding function for non-coding DNA, including pseudogenes.
Pseudogenes Shrink Gaps for Theistic Darwinian Evolutionists Collins & Giberson

Spinner Dolphins Image, Oahu - National Geographic Photo of the Day

Spinner Dolphins Image, Oahu - National Geographic Photo of the Day

How to Build A Worm

Scientific Deceptions: How science is misused to promote atheism.

Scientific Deceptions: How science is misused to promote atheism.: Sometimes atheists try to discredit people who in God by calling them "anti-science". However, belief in God does not conflict wi...

Corroboration of the Dentures Anecdote Involving Veridical Perception in a Near-Death Experience by Rudolf H. Smit

Corroboration of the Dentures Anecdote Involving Veridical Perception in a Near-Death Experience by Rudolf H. Smit

The Animal Communicator

The incredible story of how leopard Diabolo became Spirit - Anna Breyten...

To Build a Worm: Where Undirected Evolution Runs into Severe Difficulties

To Build a Worm: Where Undirected Evolution Runs into Severe Difficulties by Paul Nelson at evolutionnews.org

...if we want to explain the origin of the adult form of C. elegans, we need first to explain the origin of the developmental pathway that constructs the worm. And this is where undirected evolution runs into severe difficulties.

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS - THE BEST AVAILABLE EVIDENCE

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS BRIEFING DOCUMENT THE BEST AVAILABLE EVIDENCE by DON BERLINER with Marie Galbraith Antonio Huneeus Presented by CUFONS, FUFOR, MUFON December 1995
http://www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/Rockefeller-Briefing-Document.pdf

Everything You Believe Is Based on Personal Experience and Testimony

Everything You Believe Is Based on Personal Experience and Testimony

...when anyone says that testimony and personal experience are dismissible forms of evidence, they are obviously using (consciously or not) selective (and logically incoherent) hyperskepticism against an unwanted idea, because everything any of us believe or call ‘knowledge” is gained/extrapolated (hopefully using logic and logical arguments) via personal experience and/or information gained via testimony.

The Little Bird that Could

The Little Bird that Could

Hundreds of miles out to sea in a storm, exhausted birds would sometimes land en masse on ships for refuge. Sailors must have wondered at the sight; where did these little birds come from? And what are they doing out here? Did the wind carry them away from the safety of the land? A team of scientists decided to find out.

Lee Strobel is a journalist who's research into the authenticity of the Gospels transformed his life. He started out as an atheist skeptic but when he used his credentials as a reporter to get access to the worlds leading historians, the results of his research made a believer out of him.


The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel from Slaves4Christ on Vimeo.

"... [believing] began a transformational process for me where over time my philosophy and my attitudes, relationships, parenting, world-view, all of that began to change over time for good. Really for good."

"When Lee became a Christian his whole life started to change to the extent that our five year old daughter who also saw those changes went to her Sunday school teacher and told her that she wanted Jesus to do in her life what He had done in her Daddy's life."

Bald Eagle Image, Memphis Zoo - National Geographic Photo of the Day

Bald Eagle Image, Memphis Zoo - National Geographic Photo of the Day

Another 'Earth' spotted in corner of Milky Way

Another 'Earth' spotted in corner of Milky Way

Scientists admit they have no idea how the brain works. Maybe they need to question their basic assumption that the brain produces consciousness.
Brain studies galore yet 'nobody really knows'

John Lennox: Why I am a Christian Complete Event in Perth, WA

How to Talk with Darwinists

ID The Future Podcast: How to Talk with Darwinists

Climbing a slow-growth wall of worry

Climbing a slow-growth wall of worry

In Biology as in Technology, Similarities Do Not Prove the Absence of Intelligent Design

What Should Politicians Say When Asked About Evolution?

Life in B Flat (Science and Spirituality): Naturalism is an extraordinary claim.

Life in B Flat (Science and Spirituality): Naturalism is an extraordinary claim.: Most people don't understand that naturalism is an extraordinary claim. The following should help to explain why it is: The laws of na...

Reading David Chalmers on the Coming "Singularity"