Author: Bethel McGrew

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
September 11, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Anne Hathaway, atheists, butterflies, Carl Sagan, cassettes, chomping, dinosaurs, faith, hunger, ice cream truck, intelligence, love, memory, Mesozoic era, movies, Oak Street, physical media, shotgun, solar flare, Stranger Things, T-Rex, The End of Oak Street, villains}

Dinos Meet Carl Sagan and a Marriage on the Rocks

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September 11, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science

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The family has put together the Big Premise (a solar flare has flung Oak Street back to the Mesozoic era). The dad predicts, “God's not gonna let us die here.” Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
August 7, 2026

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Path from Rome, agnostics, anti-reductionism, Archbishop of Canterbury, Arthur Hugh Clough, atheists, biology, Brief Encounters, Christians, deconversion, Denis Noble, Edward Feser, evolutionary biology, Financial Times, form, function, intelligent design, Justin Brierley, Lord Richard Harries, New Atheists, Oxford University, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, religions, Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams, Sheldonian Theatre, Sir Anthony Kenny, The God Delusion, The Sun, theism}

Haunted by God: Remembering Sir Anthony Kenny

_{Bethel McGrew
August 7, 2026

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Kenny still appreciated a good church service and even did readings from the breviary. Unusually, he argued there was no reason why an agnostic shouldn't pray. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
August 5, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Anthony Fauci, Armand Assante, Athena, blessings, Brad East, Cambridge Elements, Christopher Nolan, Contemporary Pagan Philosophy, disenchantment, Eric Steinhart, faith, Federation of American Scientists, intelligent design, Interstellar, knowledge, mad scientist, magicians, Marvel Cinematic Universe, methodological naturalism, Möbius strip, natural disasters, naturalism, philosophers, polytheism, Richard Dawkins, scientists, teacher’s pet, The Odyssey, The Prestige, theism, theistic evolutionists, wizards, Yiyang Zhuge, Zeus}

Christopher Nolan’s Disenchanted Odyssey

_{Bethel McGrew
August 5, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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In Nolan's supposal, the mad scientist takes on the mystique of a wizard. Perhaps this is fitting, given that he sees science and wizardry as the same thing. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
July 10, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Great Awakening, Angel Studios, Benjamin Franklin, creator, Declaration of Independence, Dominic Sandbrook, endowed by our creator, Founding Fathers, George Whitefield, infant mortality, intelligent design, jesus, John Adams, John West, Lazarus, providence, resurrection, Sight & Sound, theistic evolutionists, theology, Tom Holland, Whittaker Chambers, William Paley, Witness, Young Washington}

Young Benjamin Franklin: The Goodness of Nature’s Design

_{Bethel McGrew
July 10, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Franklin is famous for his aphorisms and science experiments, but fewer people know he also had a keen interest in theology. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
June 15, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Tagged
, airport paperbacks, American Jews, Arrival (movie), BBC, boomers, Chariots of the Gods, Christianity, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, compassion, David Grusch, Disclosure Day, Disneyfication, England, extraterrestrials, fiction, Fox News, Gethsemane, goals, idealism, immigrants, inner child, language, Mother Superior, movies, NBC, Passion, Pentagon, personality, phones, pop spirituality, religion, Ross Douthat, Roy Neary, Snow White, Steve Deace, symbolism, TMZ, UFOlogy, World War III}

E.T., Phoned In: The Disneyfied Faith of Steven Spielberg

_{Bethel McGrew
June 15, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science

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Steve Deace has called the film a direct assault on Christianity. This wasn’t exactly my impression. I didn’t feel assaulted so much as vaguely condescended to. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
June 10, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Metaphysics
Tagged
, child, Claude, Claudia, consciousness, conversations, design, employee, encyclical, evolutionary logic, humans, Large Language Model, LLMs, machines, men, mice, person, Pope Leo XIV, Richard Dawkins, self-reflection, slave, spiritual communion, Ted Chiang, telos, The Atlantic, The Free Press, Tyler Cowen, UnHerd, wisdom, word-generation machines, writing, zombies}

Zombie Metaphysics: Dawkins Versus Pope Leo

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June 10, 2026

Computational Sciences, Metaphysics

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This casual devaluing of consciousness is actually intertwined with the rush to ascribe it to AI. The ultimate conclusion is the same. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
June 1, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Planetology
Tagged
, Age of Disclosure, aliens, Bible, Budd Hopkins, C. S. Lewis, Christianity, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, demonology, Department of Defense, Disclosure Day, Eddy Weiss, extraterrestrial life, Ezekiel, filmmakers, fundamentalism, Genesis, Lee Roy Gaitan, Luis Elizondo, Michael Heiser, Perelandra, Ransom Trilogy, religion, Sheldon Vanauken, Space Trilogy, Steven Spielberg, Supreme Being, Texas, theology, trauma, UFOlogy, Venus}

We Are Not Alone? No, We Never Were

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June 1, 2026

Faith & Science, Planetology

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C. S. Lewis was always game for a chat about God and aliens, as recalled by his protégé Sheldon Vanauken. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
May 13, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheists, beauty, Chartres Cathedral, Christians, Christopher Hitchens, creator, David Berlinski, Discovery Institute, DNA, fine-tuning, fish, Francis Crick, God Is Not Great, gratuitous beauty, humans, intelligent design, James Joyce, ocean, philosophers, photography, quietness, religious believers, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Sternberg, Rod Dreher, Stephen Meyer, survival, The Story of Everything, theaters, universe, Whittaker Chambers, womb}

Under Aesthetic Arrest: Even an Atheist Might Stop and Think

_{Bethel McGrew
May 13, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Humans are the only creatures with a capacity for appreciating beauty beyond a rudimentary attraction to something eye-catching, shiny, or colorful. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
April 13, 2026

Categories
Biology
Origin of Life
Tagged
, aliens, amnesia, Andy Weir, astrophage, ATP, computer programmers, Daniel Pemberton, Drew Goddard, Eridians, Eva Stratt, eyes, Goldilocks Zone, hearing, Hollywood, intelligence, James Ortiz, life-forms, microphone, mitochondria, mutations, organelles, origin of life, panspermia, parasites, Powers of Ten, Project Hail Mary, puppeteering, Richard Dawkins, RNA, Rocky, Ryan Gosling, Ryland Grace, science fiction, sonar, space pods, stars, survival of the fittest, The Martian, The Story of Everything, transcription, water}

Project Hail Mary Can’t Outrun the God Hypothesis

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April 13, 2026

Biology, Origin of Life

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How could something with a structure this complicated have evolved twice? Ryland Grace thinks it couldn’t have. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
December 26, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Canadians, Carl Jung, Charles Darwin, Dan Tawfik, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, David Klinghoffer, Douglas Axe, Douglas Murray, epicycles, God Hypothesis, H. Allen Orr, intelligent design, Jordan Peterson, Lawrence Krauss, neo-Darwinists, New New Atheists, Niall Ferguson, protein folding, Ptolemy, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Tom Holland, Weizmann Institute}

#7 Story of 2021: Jordan Peterson Discovers the God Hypothesis

_{Bethel McGrew
December 26, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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It’s refreshing to see such intellectual humility from a figure with Peterson’s status. But not all his followers were thrilled. Read More ›