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Details of the debate:
A public debate about the origins of life hosted by the American Freedom Alliance and featuring: Stephen Meyer, Rick Sternberg, Michael Shermer and Don Prothero
Admission: $20.00 Students: $10.00
RSVP: Saban Theater Box Office (323) 655-0111Monday, November 30th, 7pm,
Saban Theater, Beverly Hills
You can see other debates with Meyer and Shermer:
These two men have met several times before, most recently at Freedomfest in Las Vegas in 2008 (click here for video)… and appeared together on Lee Strobel’s Faith Under Fire program (video here).
And here are some reviews from people who actually attended the debate.
Learn more about intelligent design
- Fine-tuning of cosmological constants
- Galactic, stellar and planetary fine-tuning
- Origin of the building blocks in the simplest replicating cell
- Origin of biological information in the simplest replicating cell
- Sudden origins of all major body plans in the 3-5 million year Cambrian explosion
- The development of irreducibly complex molecular machines
And it’s very important to understand how the origin of the universe out of nothing (the Big Bang theory) disproves the philosophy of naturalism, which is the pre-supposition that causes so many people to rule the possibility that an intelligence may have played a role in the development of life on Earth.