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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 7, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, chemicals, disorder, entropy, evolutionary theory, God’s Grandeur, ID the Future, intelligent design, interviews, materialists, mind, mindless processes, multiverse, natural selection, natural theology, origin of life, Pat Flynn, Philosophy for the People, podcast, scientific discoveries, teleology, YouTube channels}

Brian Miller: The Basic Challenge to Materialist Origin-of-Life Theories

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September 7, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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“All natural processes tend to create greater disorder (entropy)…The origin of life requires chemicals to go into a state of both high order and high energy.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 3, 2025

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Australopithecus afarensis, bipedalism, Casey Luskin, co-option, flowering plants, fossil record, God of the gaps, Homo (genus), humans, ID the Future, intelligence, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, Jacob Vasquez, junk DNA, knuckle-walkers, mammals, naturalism, pelvis, scientific knowledge, type III secretion system}

Casey Luskin Answers Common Objections to Intelligent Design

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September 3, 2025

Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Dr. Luskin highlights a “large unbridged gap” in the fossil record between ape-like species like Lucy and human-like species. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 1, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alan Turing, codebreaking, computing, David Berlinski, diversity, ID the Future, intelligence, inventiveness, Labor Day, mathematicians, origin of life, philosophers, physics, podcast, Science After Babel, scientific reductionism, The Imitation Game, Theory of Everything, World War II}

Berlinski: Life Shows a “Kind of Intelligence Evident Nowhere Else” in Nature

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 1, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

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"There is the mystery of life itself. If scientists thought that its origin and nature would yield to scientific reductionism, they have been disappointed." Read More ›

Young boy and chimpanzee, both with open mouths in excitement or surprise, side by outdoor setting

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, abiogenesis, ancient Greece, cells, chimpanzees, China, civilizations, complexity, David Berlinski, evolutionists, human origins, ID the Future, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, mathematicians, non-life, origin of life, RNA, RNA world, Science After Babel, Stephen Jay Gould, Western Europe}

David Berlinski on Human-Chimp Differences, Human Origins, Origin of Life, and More

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August 29, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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He challenges Stephen Jay Gould’s idea that the difference between humans and chimps is merely one of degree but not kind, calling this “utterly ridiculous.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, cancer, Casey Luskin, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, devolution, diseases, evolution, intelligent design, Karl Krueger, machinery, Michael Behe, National Cancer Institute, novel function, scientists}

What Cancer Reveals About the Limits of Darwinian Evolutionary Processes

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 28, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Dr. Karl Krueger explains what led him to become a skeptic of Darwinian evolution and why he thinks ID can better explain the behavior and effects of cancer. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 26, 2025

Categories
Culture
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwinian materialism, evolution, Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four: First Steps, heroism, intelligent design, Marvel Cinematic Universe, materialism, materialists, naturalists, Origin of Species, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientific atheism, Stephen Meyer, universe}

From Fantastic Four to First Causes: Why Science Has Eclipsed Darwin

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August 26, 2025

Culture, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Scientific materialism continues to have a strong hold on our culture today, as does the atheism that it fuels. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 23, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Tagged
, Darwinism, David Berlinski, Devil, ID the Future, mathematics, Paris, podcast, Science After Babel, Tower of Babel, Wistar Symposium}

Materialistic Science Resembles a Tower of Babel

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August 23, 2025

Evolution, Mathematics

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David Berlinski reflects on the seminal 1966 WISTAR symposium, which laid out some mathematical challenges to Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 21, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, anatomy, auditory nerve, biochemistry, cochlea, communication, comprehension, ear, eardrum, Eric Hedin, expression, functionality, hair cells, hearing, human uniqueness, ID the Future, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, lips, mouth, neurology, ossicles, pharynx, reception, speech, tongue}

In a Universe of Non-Living Matter, Communication Sets Us Apart

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 21, 2025

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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Communication is found across all life forms, from the signals sent by trees through fungal networks to the deep conversations we can have with each other. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 19, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, bacteria, behavior, biochemistry, biological information, biology, biosignatures, cells, cognition, communication, Darwinism, decision-making, digestion, emergent properties, emotions, Eric Hedin, heart rate, human beings, ID the Future, information processing, intelligent design, interviews, life, nervous system, physical laws, physicists, rocks, single-celled organisms, stars, undirected processes, water}

Physicist Eric Hedin: Information Processing as a Hallmark of Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 19, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design

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I begin a two-part conversation with Dr. Eric Hedin, a physicist and author who’s been asking bold questions about the hidden patterns of life. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atoms, cancer, chemicals, Darwinism, devolution, eugenics, evil, function, Guillermo Gonzalez, history, human dignity, human life, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, life, materialism, podcast, problem of evil, Return of the God Hypothesis, Social Darwinism, struggle for existence, suffering, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, Tova Forman}

Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evil

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 14, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The presence of evil and suffering calls for justification. But which scientific view of life is better placed to help us address these issues? Read More ›