{"id":757,"date":"2015-09-28T09:38:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T15:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olena.com\/blog\/?p=757"},"modified":"2015-09-28T09:56:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T15:56:42","slug":"the-pensmore-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olena.com\/blog\/?p=757","title":{"rendered":"the pensmore conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 24th and 25th College of the Ozarks<\/a> hosted a conference with contemporary Christian luminaries in the sciences. John Lennox, Stephen Meyer, Robert Spitzer, Michael Tenneson, Mark Rapinchuk, Kyle Rapinchuk, and Erin Hayes examined and exposed some of the trenchant issues on the interface between science and faith.<\/p>\n

I went to the conference with my friend Steve Krstulovich, a recently retired engineer at Fermilab in Chicago. Unfortunately, he and I napped for some of the sessions, and where we went to different sessions, we recorded them for each other.<\/p>\n

I only have the ones I recorded, since I haven’t received any from him yet, but here they are:<\/p>\n

Stephen Meyer: Signature in the Cell (partial)<\/h4>\n

Download<\/a> 100 MB<\/p>\n

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Stephen Meyer: Darwin\u2019s Doubt and the Cambrian Explosion<\/h4>\n

Download<\/a> 130 MB<\/p>\n

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Robert Spitzer: Creation and Evolution in My Classroom<\/h4>\n

Download<\/a> 108 MB<\/p>\n

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Robert Spitzer: Evidence for the Supernatural from Human Consciousness<\/h4>\n

Download<\/a> 130 MB<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

The most exciting thing about this conference was the careful philosophical evaluation of materialistic naturalism. With one voice the presenters offered evidenced, nuanced, and valid criticism of the Neo-Darwinian supposition that life and consciousness appeared under the auspices of natural law operating on material reality. That turns out to be insufficient based on the sudden appearance of information in the universe. There was not enough time and material cause and effect is not sufficient to allow the evolutionary leap to complex life forms and then consciousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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