References:

(1) “The Design Inference” by William Dembski.

(2)The multiverse hypothesis was invoked by the materialistic community to avoid a Designer. That hypothesis is blatantly ad hoc, lacks experimental data, and it appears not to be able to be falsified.

(3) The contest of origins features 2 opposing points of view: (a) A Creator and Designer is responsible for the origin of life. (b) Matter, chance, and long periods of time are sufficient to explain the origin of life.

(4) There are 2 reasons why atheists doubt the design of nature: (a) David Hume’s argument against miracles. (b) Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

(5) Hume’s argument is really a circular argument.

(6) “Talking to Your Kids about Jesus” by Natasha Crain.

(7) The notion of God by Mormonism is that a former human being living on another planet became God after the universe. Then who or what caused the universe in Mormonism?

(8) “On the Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin.

(9) Darwin offered a test for his theory. He said, “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.”

(10) “Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution”by Michael Behe.

(11) For Darwin, the black box was the cell.

(12) Behe introduces the idea of “irreducible complexity.”

This is Episode 114.