Month: April 2024

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Author
Jean-Pierre Luminet

Date
April 30, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Alexander Friedmann, Arthur Walker, cemetery, Howard Robertson, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Leonhard Euler, physicists, static universe, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, typhoid fever, World War II}

A Scientific Revolution Comparable with Copernicus’

_{Jean-Pierre Luminet
April 30, 2024

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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The location of his grave was quickly forgotten, since the Stalinist regime was hardly inclined to perpetuate the memory of this “creationist” scientist. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 29, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, agency, automaton, complexity, consciousness, evidence, evolution, free will, fungal mind, human behavior, hyphae, imago Dei, intelligence, intelligent design, Internet, Judeo-Christian tradition, learning, materialism, memory, mind, Nicholas P. Money, Ohio, randomness, science writers, scientists, sensitivity}

Do Fungi Have Free-Will?

_{Daniel Witt
April 29, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

8}

Whenever a new hypothesis like this is published and calmly debated in scientific journals without arousing any furor, your first instinct may be to scoff. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
April 28, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Geology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Big Bang, cepheid variable stars, Cosmic Background Radiation, cosmological constant, Doppler shift, earth, Georges Lemaître, globular clusters, Hubble Space Telescope, Milky Way, supernovae, universe, Vesto Slipher}

The “Hubble Tension” and the Big Bang

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 28, 2024

Cosmology, Geology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

5}

One thing I am fairly certain about: overthrowing the Big Bang theory is not in the offing. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 27, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, early Earth, enzymes, Eric Anderson, fitness, Gerald Joyce, ID the Future, intervention, James Tour, PNAS, Research, researchers, RNA world, Robert Stadler, Salk Institute, Stephen Meyer, Washington Post}

Top Ten Cheats in “Monumental” Origin of Life Research

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 27, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

3}

Brand new research from the Salk Institute has just been published relating to the origin of self-replicating RNA — a lynchpin in the RNA-world hypothesis. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 26, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, anti-racism, assisted suicide, bioethicists, disability, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), embryonic stem cells, equity, experts, Gaza, gender, gobbledygook, Hastings Center Report, health, human cloning, lawyers, medical conscience, philosophers, pro-life, progressive ideology, race, Roman Catholic, Second Amendment, sexuality, technocracy, woke ideology}

Bioethicists Want to Rule the World!

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 26, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

It seems to me that the best approach to the policy opinions of mainstream bioethicists is to consider the source, shrug, and carry on. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 26, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Burmese amber, butterflies, cladistic analysis, cladogram, cockroach, convergence, Fossil Friday (series), Kalligrammatidae, lacewing, Lepidoptera, mimicry, paleontology, Trichoptera, unguided evolution, wing venation}

Fossil Friday: Three Dubious New Fossil Insect Orders from Cretaceous Burmese Amber

_{Günter Bechly
April 26, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

19}

Apart from this more general critique, are there any implications from these amber insects for intelligent design theory? You bet! Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 25, 2024

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, birds, buoyancy, carbon, computers, flowers, form, function, hydrogen, insects, laboratories, life, Life Itself, microscopes, natural law, nature, nectar, nitrogen, oxygen, Plato, polar bears, pollinators, Pythagoras, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, seals, shape, telescopes, Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic Aristotelianism, water, wood}

A Closer Look at Natural Law

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 25, 2024

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Metaphysics, Philosophy

6}

The property of a keen sense of smell allows a polar bear to smell a seal miles away under the ice. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 25, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Cassini mission, clouds, corona, Diamond Ring, Discovery Institute, eclipse, eclipse glasses, Guillermo Gonzalez, heavens, Illustra Media, intelligent observers, Jay Richards, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pam Bailey, Prometheus (moon), providence, Saturn, Solar Eclipse Experience, sun, temperature, Texas, The Privileged Planet, Waxahachie, weather}

The Joy of Purposeful Solar Eclipses

_{David Coppedge
April 25, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

5}

Intelligent design advocates have more fun at eclipses, knowing they are not just coincidental. That was certainly my experience on April 8. Read More ›

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Date
April 25, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, multiverse, opinion, science, Texas A&M}

Compelled by Multiverse Logic

_{Science and Culture
April 25, 2024

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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You’re a Bad Egg if you doubt the multiverse, whatever the flavor, in the same Basket of Bad Eggs as evolution deniers. Read More ›

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Author
Jean-Pierre Luminet

Date
April 24, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Alexander Friedmann, Big Bang, Cold War, Edwin Hubble, galaxies, George Gamow, Georges Lemaître, Henri Poincaré, Hubble-Lemaître Law, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Ralph Alpher, redshift, Robert Herman, Vesto Slipher}

The True Fathers of the Big Bang

_{Jean-Pierre Luminet
April 24, 2024

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Planetology

7}

The purpose of this book is not to exhaustively survey the history of cosmology through the centuries. Read More ›