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Have any Protestant Biologists demonstrated through their own research that Evolution is untenable?
No. There is not a single "real (peer-reviewed) research paper" showing that evolution is not likely or possible. I would challenge anybody who provides names to instead post a link to such ...
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How do Christians rebut Matt Dillahunty's objection that the resurrection of Jesus is untestable, unfalsifiable and thus unreasonable to believe?
Dillahunty's argument is self-refuting.
He commits the error inherent to all forms of verificationism. A simple, jargon-free description of verificationist principles would be: "you shouldn't ...
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Have any major Christian intellectuals responded to Stephen Hawking's "The Grand Design"?
God and Stephen Hawking, by John C. Lennox, is a popular direct reply to The Grand Design.
Alister McGrath calls it "a brilliant response," and the book won an Award of Merit in Christianity Today'...
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Do Christian proponents of Intelligent Design hold it to be a scientific position, and if not, do they see this lack of scientific rigor as an issue?
1. Does Intelligent Design make testable predictions that, if proven false, would contradict its central claims?
Yes. I'm not going to try to summarize, but ID's predictions tend to revolve around ...
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Is there a theological basis for climate change skepticism among evangelicals?
In this video I explored reasons that there is sometimes strain between faith and science.
If, because I am a man of faith and I love science, I am not the target audience you're looking for, I can ...
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How do young earth creationists explain the evidence for ice ages?
Young-Earth Creationists tend to agree that the Ice Age(s*) occurred after the Great Flood, but they have a variety of proposed explanations that seek to reconcile the Biblical record and artifactual ...
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How do Christians who reject pre-fall death reconcile their views with the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (66 million years ago)?
Those creationist Christians typically place the "extinction event" in Noah's day, thus long after the fall of the historic Adam.
An example is from the well-known Young Earth model defender,...
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Is there a theological basis for climate change skepticism among evangelicals?
A significant fraction of Evangelical Christians also believe in "Young Earth Creationism", which is to say they take Genesis 1-3 at face value and believe that the Earth is ~6,000-7,000 ...
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Have any Protestant Biologists demonstrated through their own research that Evolution is untenable?
Michael Behe, Stephen Meyer, and Douglas Axe have argued in technical & lay publications against the plausibility of unguided evolution; several of the arguments used are:
Specified complexity is ...
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Do Christian proponents of Intelligent Design hold it to be a scientific position, and if not, do they see this lack of scientific rigor as an issue?
All the Christians I know who believe God to be the intelligent designer creator of this universe have great sympathy with the I.D. stance, and agree with a lot of it. So, at the outset, I would ...
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According to Creationists, what are the strongest arguments against abiogenesis?
First off, from a Christian standpoint, the strongest argument is Genesis 1; God's inerrant and infallible Word tells us how life began: God spoke, and it was so. Most importantly, millions or ...
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Have any Protestant Biologists demonstrated through their own research that Evolution is untenable?
Disclaimer: I can't say with confidence that any of the cited individuals are Protestant, as opposed to Orthodox or Catholic, although it's unclear to me why that should matter.
Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson ...
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According to proponents of creationism and intelligent design, are we clueless about the origin of life? James Tour vs. Dave Farina
This post will review 2 of the major difficulties faced by studies in naturalistic abiogenesis (undesigned origin of life).
Its primary assumption is supported by no experimental evidence
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How does the Bible justify geocentrism?
The only error here that needs resolution is your false premise and incorrect reading of the text. The Bible is not a scientific journal and includes many different literary genres. Your mistake is ...
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How do Christians who reject pre-fall death reconcile their views with the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (66 million years ago)?
To expand on GratefulDisciple's answer...
...the short version is that a lot of them don't.
There are, as I see it, three-and-a-half options. GratefulDisciple already explained the "young-Earth ...
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How do Young Earth Creationists account for radiometrical dates of more than 7000 years?
The literal answer is that YECs "account" for no such thing. They reject the accuracy of such dates, based on an alternate interpretation of the available evidence. However, that isn't very ...
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Is there a theological basis for climate change skepticism among evangelicals?
Many Christians believe that God is in complete control of the weather, using it for blessings and curses.
They don't deny that the climate is changing, but they do doubt that it is caused by humans, ...
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How do Christians rebut Matt Dillahunty's objection that the resurrection of Jesus is untestable, unfalsifiable and thus unreasonable to believe?
I'd suppose that the same arguments regarding existence might be made about Confucious, Plato, Melchizedek, Nero, and other historical figures. But what are counter arguments?
You might look for ...
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How do Christians rebut Matt Dillahunty's objection that the resurrection of Jesus is untestable, unfalsifiable and thus unreasonable to believe?
Apart from the point about the argument being self-refuting from another answer, this argument proves too much. By the author's logic, the claim that George Washington used to be President of the ...
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According to Creationists, what are the strongest arguments against abiogenesis?
Evolution cannot start until there exists a chemical structure which can replicate itself. And this supposed replicating structure must be in some sense a step towards the DNA structures that all ...
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Has the Catholic Church endorsed the view of Einstein on the Creator?
Catholicism believes in a personal God - a rational being who loves, creates as a voluntary act, and cares for His creation. Einstein found himself unable to believe in such a God:
"It seems to me ...
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Can time dilation be used to reconcile Young Earth Creationism and scientific evidence, regarding the age of the Earth?
Yes, time dilation has been used by creationists in proposed solutions to the distant starlight problem for quite some time already. The two main proponents are Russell Humphreys and John G. Hartnett. ...
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Do any Christian groups or denominations teach reliable methods for scientifically minded individuals to seek and find God?
The "proof" of God's existence is that anything exists at all. I understand that there are many refutations of the ontological argument and that this will not satisfy the purely scientific ...
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How do Latter-day Saints rebut GM Skeptic's objection against the epistemic value of personal spiritual experiences?
On GM Skeptic's main argument seems to be that religious experiences are simply the result of brain activity under special circumstances
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe that ...
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Have any Protestant Biologists demonstrated through their own research that Evolution is untenable?
Yes. You can find many articles at ApologeticsPress.org by Jeff Miller who is a Biomechanical Engineer who explains why evolution is a false theory. See "God and the Laws of Science: Genetics ...
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According to Creationists, what are the strongest arguments against abiogenesis?
I'll offer 3 critiques
1. A leap of faith too far
For purposes of this post I'll use as a working definition of faith the one proposed by @curiousdannii - reliance on something because of its past ...
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According to Young Earth Creationists why would God create elements that decay if the creation was perfect?
There are several indications that radioactivity (which is basically an instability in matter itself) was not inherent in creation but was a judgment upon humanity after the rebellion of creation (...
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Do Christian proponents of Intelligent Design hold it to be a scientific position, and if not, do they see this lack of scientific rigor as an issue?
The core of ID really comes down to one fundamental claim:
Physical systems cannot generate more complex, specified structure than is put into them. This is known as "conservation of information&...
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