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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 24, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artwork, books, candor, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, evolution, humor, Icons of Evolution, ID the Future, illustrators, ink, Jay Richards, Jody Sjogren, Jonathan Wells, journals, machines, magazines, materialist paradigm, organisms, Paul Nelson, pen, podcast, Richard Sternberg, textbooks, Tom Woodward, visual media}

On Illustrating the Icons of Evolution

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 24, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Artistic license has been used to promote Darwinian evolution since the late 19th century. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, academia, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, evolution, evolutionary theory, faith and science, Fiesole, ID the Future, intelligent design, intelligent designer, intentional design, Italy, john lennox, Michael Behe, Peter Robinson, physical world, podcast, science, scientific method, Stephen Meyer, Uncommon Knowledge, universe}

Behe, Meyer, and Lennox: Evidence for Design Is Growing

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 21, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Peter Robinson sits down with Michael Behe, John Lennox, and Stephen Meyer, three leading voices in science on the case for an intelligent designer. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 19, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biological systems, biology, Brian Miller, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Darwinian assumptions, Discovery Institute, Emily Reeves, engineering, engineering principles, engineers, evolution, fish jaws, four-bar linkage, ID the Future, intelligent design, life, Research, scholars, scientists, Stuart Burgess, vertebrate limbs}

Advancing Biology Through an Engineering Lens

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 19, 2025

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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I spoke with physicist Dr. Brian Miller about the fruitful research that can result when engineering principles are applied to the study of biological systems. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 17, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, clinical death, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, EEG, ID the Future, journalists, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscience, prefrontal cortex, promissory materialism, The Immortal Mind}

Why Materialism Can’t Explain the Mind

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 17, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Is the soul a myth? Does your mind really just boil down to brain function? I spoke with Denyse O’Leary about surprising findings out of neuroscience. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 15, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, birth of science, faith and science, ID the Future, Judeo-Christian tradition, Michael Medved, modern science, podcast, PragerU, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientific discoveries, Stephen Meyer, theism}

The Birth of Science and of the Cosmos

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 15, 2025

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Do we have to choose between science and God? Absolutely not, says philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 14, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheism, brain, brain damage, brain operations, chapel, family crisis, human beings, human soul, ID the Future, intelligent design, medicine, mind, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, patients, podcast, soul, The Immortal Mind, Worthy Books}

Dr. Michael Egnor on His Own Spiritual Journey

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 14, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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His personal story, including a profound experience in a hospital chapel during a family crisis, became a turning point that challenged his atheism. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological complexity, Darwinian evolutionary mechanism, development, DNA, Getting the Facts Straight, ground clearing, immaterial genome, information, intelligent design, Jay Richards, Jonathan Wells, PBS, Plato's Revenge, podcast, public education, Richard Sternberg, United States}

Jonathan Wells Cleared the Ground for Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 11, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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He had a sense of the immateriality of the genome, much like that of his friend Richard Sternberg. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 8, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptations, bacteria, biology, Carolyn Hovde, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Dustin Van Hofwegen, E. coli, engineered complexity, engineering, evolution, evolutionary leap, genetic mechanisms, ID the Future, innovation, Jonathan Witt, Journal of Bacteriology, microbes, podcast, Scott Minnich, University of Idaho}

Engineered Complexity in the Microbial World

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 8, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Many biological “adaptations” may involve the use of innate abilities or the disruption of existing functions, rather than the creation of entirely new ones. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 6, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, Brian Miller, cognition, David Klinghoffer, decision-making, DNA, embryos, genes, Harvard University, ID the Future, immaterial genome, information, intelligent design, life, Michael Levin, nucleotide alteration, physicalism, physicists, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, podcast, purpose, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, scientific revolution, software, splicing, teleonomy, Tufts University}

Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 6, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Immaterial? As in not material? It’s a daring proposition, to be sure, and one that has the power to change everything we understand about life. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 4, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, artificial intelligence, brain, computational processing, conjoined twins, Denyse O'Leary, disintegration, dualism, free will, gullibility, ID the Future, intentionality, materialism, meaning, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neuroscience, podcast, Research, soul, split-brain surgery, syntax, The Immortal Mind}

A Neurosurgeon Pulls Back the Curtain on the Soul

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 4, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Dr. Michael Egnor tackles provocative ideas, making a case that the human soul exists and that the mind is immortal. Read More ›