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Two items from the Center for Science and Culture.

Science and Faith: Are They Really in Conflict?  According to a recent survey, 55% of American adults believe that “science and religion [are] often in conflict.”  What is your church or private school doing to show parents and their children that science and faith are actually in harmony rather than at war?  If you’ve been at a loss about how to engage issues of science and faith in your congregation, consider becoming a host church for “Science and Faith: Are They Really in Conflict?,” a worldwide simulcast event on Sunday, September 21, 2014 featuring John Lennox from Oxford University (who some call a new C.S. Lewis) and New York Times bestselling authors Stephen Meyer and Eric Metaxas.

By registering as a host church or school for this important event before the end of November, your group will receive a 20% discount.  Register NOW and SAVE.

C.S. Lewis & Intelligent Design.  The Center has produced a new short documentary about C.S. Lewis’s journey to find intelligent design in nature.  The film is being released on YouTube in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Lewis’s death this coming Friday, November 22.  See it here:

Watch a hemoglobin molecule being manufactured inside a cell … in real time.  As you watch the video, try to convince yourself that this molecular manufacturing assembly line (and millions more just like it) evolved from primordial soup by cosmic accident.  If you don’t see evidence of design, you might be a religious fanatic.  Just sayin’.

This animation comes from the good folks at the Discovery Institute.  See detailed description here.

Excerpts:

When the right transfer molecule plugs in, the amino acid it carries is added to the growing protein chain.  Again, you are watching this in real time.  After a few seconds, the assembled protein starts to emerge from the ribosome.

In this case, the end product is hemoglobin.  The cells in our bone marrow churn out 100 trillion molecules it per second.