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		<title>Jay Richards Begins His Review of Alvin Plantinga&#8217;s &#8220;Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jay Richards plans a multi-part review and begins it with some background on Plantinga: Where the Conflict Really Lies contains so much careful analysis, and covers so many different topics, that a complete review is almost impossible. Over the next few weeks, however, I&#8217;d like to reflect on and engage several of Plantinga&#8217;s arguments here [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedesignspectrum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10338223&amp;post=932&amp;subd=thedesignspectrum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ted Kennedy Was For Teaching the Controversy Before He Was Against It</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rick Santorum explains some funny back-story of the the Santorum Amendment: HT: Evo News blog. Filed under: Evolution News &#38; Views blog, History, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science, Science Education Tagged: Rick Santorum, Ted Kennedy<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedesignspectrum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10338223&amp;post=923&amp;subd=thedesignspectrum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scot McKnight Is Deleting More Perfectly Civil, Relevant Comments at Jesus Creed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Eugenics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the latest comment he deleted from this post: Not a very scientific ranking, obviously.  Very limited criteria, apparently.  I laughed out loud at some of the simplistic discussion.  This article is an exercise in politicizing science. Woodrow Wilson embraced legislation based on the science of eugenics, including forced sterilization of the &#8220;feeble-minded&#8221; and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedesignspectrum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10338223&amp;post=910&amp;subd=thedesignspectrum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Biologos Scientists Reflect &#8220;Theistic Materialism&#8221; on the Historical Adam Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[BioLogos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I and others had some dialogue with Dennis Venema on the Biologos blog about his presuppositions in approaching the question of whether there could ever have been a single human couple.  It seems clear from the comments that Venema has a strong presupposition that God did not intervene supernaturally in the creation of Adam and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedesignspectrum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10338223&amp;post=869&amp;subd=thedesignspectrum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Theistic Materialism and Circular Reasoning at Biologos:  More Dialogue with Dennis Venema</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This dialogue speaks for itself, methinks.  Biologos scientist Dennis Venema&#8217;s circular reasoning seems fairly obvious to &#8220;Rich&#8221; (and me), but not to others apparently. ******************************************* Rich &#8211; #8794 April 5th 2010 Dear Dennis/Darrel: Your argument seems to be:  If we back-reason based solely on our current knowledge of genetics, we must conclude that no single [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedesignspectrum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10338223&amp;post=877&amp;subd=thedesignspectrum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wayne Grudem Interview with Adrian Warnock</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scot McKnight asks how to explain Wayne Grudem&#8217;s views to a European Evangelical.  We don&#8217;t have to wonder.  Grudem himself explained his views to Adrian Warnock.  I am not endorsing all of Grudem&#8217;s views.  I am advocating letting people speak for themselves and presenting their views accurately and in context.  This is the charitable thing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedesignspectrum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10338223&amp;post=902&amp;subd=thedesignspectrum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who is John Stott?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From David Brooks&#8217; 2004 piece in the New York Times: Tim Russert is a great journalist, but he made a mistake last weekend. He included Jerry Falwell and Al Sharpton in a discussion on religion and public life. Inviting these two bozos onto &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; to discuss that issue is like inviting Britney Spears [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedesignspectrum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10338223&amp;post=898&amp;subd=thedesignspectrum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Norway Killer:  Why Were Some in the Media So Quick to Label Him a &#8220;Christian Fundamentalist&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times and other media outlets repeatedly labeled the Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik a &#8220;Christian fundamentalist,&#8221; and continued to do so for several days without apparently investigating whether it was accurate.  The New York Times used that label in its leading paragraph.  Why would they use such a defamatory label before confirming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedesignspectrum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10338223&amp;post=892&amp;subd=thedesignspectrum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Discovery Institute on Human/Ape Common Ancestry: Reply to Christianity Today Article on Adam?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although he does not mention the Christianity Today article on the historical Adam and Eve specifically, this seems to be Casey Luskin&#8217;s reply to it.  Too bad this evidence was not included in the Christianity Today article.  Its readers would have benefited from being able to evaluate all the pertinent evidence and arguments themselves. Filed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedesignspectrum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10338223&amp;post=862&amp;subd=thedesignspectrum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RJS at Jesus Creed and &#8220;Theistic Materialism&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thedesignspectrum.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/rjs-at-jesus-creed-and-theistic-materialism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an on-line discussion with RJS at Jesus Creed (who is a professor of chemistry-related sciences at a major university) about how Christians should approach the historical sciences.  I may add further comments later, but I found the dialogue interesting and fruitful and I thought that I would re-post it.  My main take away:  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedesignspectrum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10338223&amp;post=126&amp;subd=thedesignspectrum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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