A SUNY professor argues that scientists are becoming less hostile toward the idea of teleology.

David Gordon, of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, offers some comments on the controversy that has erupted in the wake of atheist philosopher, Thomas Nagel’s positive review of a new book on Intelligent Design.

Jonathan Sarfati of CMI reviews Dawkins’ lastest book on the evidence for evolution.

Let me begin by nailing my colours to the mast. I count myself a materialist, in the sense that I take consciousness to be a species of brain activity. Having said that, however, it seems to me evident that no description of brain activity of the relevant kind, couched in the currently available languages of physics, physiology, or functional or computational roles, is remotely capable of capturing what is distinctive about consciousness. So glaring, indeed, are the shortcomings of all the reductive programmes currently on offer, that I cannot believe …

Michael Ruse, the atheist philosopher of biology, has written an interesting post about the extremism and intellectual failures of the “New Atheists”. Ruse teaches at the Florida State University and is himself an ardent critic of Creationism and Intelligent Design, authoring numerous books on the topic and in the philosophy of science (“Darwinism defended: a guide to the evolution controversies”, “Taking Darwin seriously: a naturalistic approach to philosophy”, “Biology and the foundation of ethics”, etc). But in his guest post on BeliefNet, Ruse argues that the New Atheists are doing …

On May 14th this year (2009) Reasons to Believe responded to two articles in the popular press. The first from the New York Times; “Chemist finds hidden gateway to RNA” and the second from Fox News; “Scientist may have found how life began.” The following is a transcript of their pod-cast Science News Flash with Joe Aguirre (JA) and Dr. Fuzale Rana (FR or “Fuzz”)

MP3 Interview with leading Intelligent Design proponent Dr. Stephen Meyer here.
“The inaugural radio Forum will be Sunday, May 30, 2009 featuring Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, Director and Senior Fellow of the Center for Renewal of Science and Culture, the Discovery Institute, Seattle, Washington. He demonstrates that the digital code imbedded in DNA points to a designing intelligence and brings into focus an issue that Darwin did not address.”
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wilberforceforum/2009/05/31/Wilberforce-Forum-Intelligent-Design-and-Darwinism-
http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/steve-meyer-interview-concerning-his-new-book/

Today I had the pleasure of attending three events with Nobel prize winning chemist Sir Harry Kroto. Sir Harry is an atheist with a Jewish father, and a friend of Richard Dawkins. He is not afraid to talk about religion as evidenced during his recent interview with Kim Hill and by numerous remarks during the sessions today.

A response to Yahoo News article “God and science: an inner conflict,” by Robin Lloyd. And Kenneth Samples gives four reasons why historically science and Christianity have been allies rather than enemies.

What strong and weak scientism is and why it’s clearly irrational and should be avoided.