Directory of Useful Discussion Threads
This is a list of of insightful discussion threads on our Peaceful Science forum. Please add more threads as they keep showing up. However, make sure to keep everything organized and do not add threads which are too long.
Origins
Adam and Eve
Introduction to several general models originally proposed by Joshua Swamidass
- A Genealogical Rapprochement on Adam?
- Story One: Ancient Sole Genetic Progenitor Adam
- Story Two: Genetic Interbreeding Adam
- Story Three: Recent Sole Genealogical Progenitor Adam
Common issues related to the Genealogical Adam and Eve
- The De Novo Creation of Adam and Biologos A post about Biologos' position towards the existence of a historical Adam.
- The Deceptive God objection
- Textual humans versus non-textual humans
- How did Adam and Eve learn to speak? Responding to Jay Johnson's objection to a de novo created Adam and Eve, Daniel Ang presents a possible way to imagine how they learned to speak and do other human activities at the moment of their creation.
Evolution and Design
Holloway-Swamidass dialogues on ASC
Eric Holloway is a recent PhD graduate from Robert Mark's group, and defends arguments for Intelligent Design. Much technical discussion about information theory and its applicability to biology.
- Eric Holloway: Algorithmic Specified Complexity
- Eric Holloway: Honest Questions on Information Theory
- We are Mystified by Eric Holloway
- Computing the Functional Information in Cancer Swamidass advances cancer as a possible counterexample to the use of mutual information to argue for design by ID advocates.
Origin of Life
- The origin of life: can science show intelligence was required? Philosopher Vincent Torley, Joshua Swamidass dialogue with physicist Brian Miller's arguments that physics shows the origin of life required an intelligent designer.
- Brian Miller: Thermodynamics and the Origin of Life More discussion of Miller's argument by physicist PdotdQ and biologist Arthur Hunt.
Cosmology
- What does the BGV theorem say? With expert contributions from astrophysicist PdotdQ.
- What Physicists Mean by Creation from Nothing
- The Failure of Jason Lisle's ASC Paradigm A discussion of YEC advocate Jason Lisle's proposed solution to the starlight problem.
Randomness and Divine Action
- Clinton Ohlers: Two Parables on Divine Action Intellectual historian Clinton Ohlers and Joshua Swamidass in dialogue about Francis Bacon.
- Is Quantum Randomness Random to God?
- The meaning of random An exploration of different conceptions of randomness.
- What Random Mutation Means in Science Atheist and Christian scientists explore the true meaning of "random" in science and its implication for God's action.
- Do Heat Seeking Missiles Have Teleology? A very interesting discussion on teleology both from an ID and non-ID standpoint.
- Would God's Guidance be DNA-Detectable? Swamidass makes his argument that science is silent on whether God guides evolution.
- Predictability Problems in Physics A fascinating thread about the difference between determinism and predictability, and how it applies to different areas of physics. It turns out that even assuming Newtonian mechanics, there are situations which seem fundamentally unpredictable.
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
- Methdological Naturalism, so Falsely Called
- The Creator-Creation distinction
- Maarten Boudry on Methodological Naturalism
- Hash out a new view of MN? Jon Garvey and Josh Swamidass discuss methodological naturalism vs. methodological regularism
Theology
Resurrection of Jesus
The Alter-Torley Resurrection Debates
- Torley Presents Alter's Case Against the Resurrection This is the post that started it all. Catholic philosopher Vincent Torley writes a long blog post summarizing the arguments in Jewish author Michael Alter's massive new book, The Resurrection: A Critical Inquiry. Members of PS engage Torley's arguments.
- Torley on the Resurrection: Take Two
- Torley Responds to Peaceful Science
- Alter on the Resurrection The author Michael Alter himself shows up and makes his case.
General Resurrection discussions
- Daniel Ang: A Scientist Looks at the Resurrection Discussion about a post on the PS blog by Daniel Ang on why he believes in the Resurrection
- Daniel Ang's Argument for the Resurrection Further objections and discussion to Daniel Ang's post.