Apple Picking in the Valley

One of the truly great things to do in Nova Scotia is apple picking during the Fall season. What a wonderful time of the year! All you can eat apples while you pick big, juicy and crisp apples to be made into apple pies later on! My wife, Deborah, makes the best apple pies in the world and I can't wait to go again! Being from Calgary, I noticed that Fall has its own attraction as a season and is fast becoming one of my favorite times of the year. The air is clean and refreshing and the colours are magnificant. If you haven't been in this part of the world yet, you are missing out!

Intelligent Design Debate

This past month, we hosted two debates on Intelligent Design. The question is, "Does the universe show intelligent design?" We had Dr. Peter March, a philosophy professor who debated that there is no intelligent design in the world and Kirk Durston, a Ph D. candidate in Biophyics (Guelph) who say there is intelligent design. It was a great time as 380 people came out to the two debates and heard arguments from both sides.

What I learned from the debate is that ID proponents are positioning themselves as a science theory that has roots in other sciences like forensics and SETI. All it wants to achieve is to come up with a method to detect design in nature. It does not make a case for God or a creator, but its findings has implications in the religous spheres.

The debate was very science driven as Durston proposed a method to detect science. March responded by talkning about the philosophical implications, i.e. that even though ID may detect design, it does prove that there is a creator or God.

This topic will continue to be a hot topic. What are you thoughts?