Author: Brian Miller

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 24, 2026

Categories
Origin of Life
Science Reporting
Tagged
, bases, Canada, David Catling, gatekeepers, intelligent agency, Last Chance Lake, Leslie Orgel, life, Maikel Rheinstädter, McMaster University, metabolism, nucleotides, organic compounds, origin of life, origin-of-life researchers, phosphate, phosphate problem, planetary scientists, primitive earth, reporters, ribose, RNA, RNA world, Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, scientific consensus, self-replicating RNA, Stanley Miller, storytelling, The Origins of Life on the Earth, University of Washington, voodoo science, wishful thinking}

On Origin of Life, Scientific American Starts Sober, Quickly Relapses into Speculation

_{Brian Miller
September 24, 2026

Origin of Life, Science Reporting

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A proposal by University of Washington planetary scientist David Catling addresses what origin-of-life researchers call the phosphate problem. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 14, 2026

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, architecture, biological systems, biology, cell boundary, cells, chance events, charge gradients, chemical mixture, chemical reactions, chemical transformations, chemistry, complexity, control, control systems, coordinated manufacturing, coordination, emerging system, Energy, energy management, engineering, environmental sources, equilibrium, experiments, feedback regulation, hydrothermal vents, information, information processing, intentions, life, natural engines, natural processes, organization, origin of life, physical forces, proteins, thermodynamics, undirected natural processes}

Why Every Theory of Life’s Origin that Excludes Design Must Fail

_{Brian Miller
September 14, 2026

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The proposal ceases to be an inference from observations and known physics and becomes an appeal to the absurd. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 10, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, architectures, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, biological design, biology, Can Science Explain Everything?, catching, climbing, compactness, fine-tuning, fingers, freedom, hand, human anatomy, humanoid robots, humans, intelligent design, interfaces, john lennox, joints, leaping, linkage mechanisms, musculoskeletal system, poor design, running, segmentation, Signature in the Cell, sloppy design, sophistication, sprinting, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, weight, William Dembski, wrist}

New Stuart Burgess Article on Human Joints Reflects Growing Recognition of Design in Biology

_{Brian Miller
September 10, 2026

Anatomy, Intelligent Design

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A journal committed to scientific materialism publishes an article explicitly challenging evolution and promoting design. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 8, 2026

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, acids, adaptation, architectural plan, autonomy, catalysts, crystallization, designer, drying, early Earth, Energy, environment, experiments, feedstock, filtration, gases, high-pressure catalytic reactors, high-temperature furnaces, information, intelligent design, life, machinery, manufacturing specifications, Miller-Urey experiment, natural materials, nature, origin of life, pathway to life, purification, reagents, reproduction, Research, self-organizational processes, synthetic chemists, unguided chemistry}

Why Life’s Origin Can Only Be Explained by Design

_{Brian Miller
September 8, 2026

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The reagents of the feedstock are never produced by processes as on the early Earth. Production requires substantial energy and controlled industrial procedures Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 3, 2026

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, carbohydrates, cellular metabolism, chemistry, control feedback loops, embedded computing, Energy, enzymes, feedstock, formaldehyde, informational system, intelligent design, iron, lipids, microspheres, minimally complex cells, molybdenum, Nayan Chakraborty, organic molecules, origin of life, origin-of-life literature, peptides, philosophical commitments, phosphate, protocells, Science and Faith in Dialogue, Shashi Thutupalli, signal processing, specified complexity, spherules, storytelling, The Design Inference, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, William Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Protocell Pretensions: The Illusion of Progress in Origin-of-Life Research

_{Brian Miller
September 3, 2026

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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This paper contains the imaginative storytelling, speculative leaps, and inflated claims that have become staples of the origin-of-life literature. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 1, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science, amino acids, cells, cellular metabolism, chemical reactions, chemists, DNA, early Earth, Energy, energy production, failed models, information processing, investigators, mind, nanozymes, nucleotide chains, origin of life, overinterpretation, particles, peptides, photosynthesis, polymerization, Protein World, proteins, Research (journal), RNA, RNA world, self-replicating RNA, thermodynamics, Yongdong Jin}

Nonsense with “Nanozymes”: New Origin-of-Life Theory Fails to Impress

_{Brian Miller
September 1, 2026

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Yongdong Jin proposes that microscopic particles, which he terms nanozymes, orchestrated many of the major steps in the synthesis of the first cell. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 8, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheists, Christians, church history, compartmentalization, creator, culture, Disclosure Day, government, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Jerry Coyne, natural causes, nature, order, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, Romans, Rube Goldberg, Steven Spielberg, theology, UFOs, Ultimate Engineering, universe}

It’s Time for a “Disclosure Day” on Design in Nature

_{Brian Miller
July 8, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The culture has been buzzing about Steven Spielberg’s latest, which depicts whistleblowers releasing evidence about UFOs that the government has hidden. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 28, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, biology, Birkbeck College, C. W. Howell, causation, Christian teaching, Christians, David Bentley Hart, demiurge, Designer Science, Edward Feser, formal cause, formal principle, gnosticism, God's Grandeur, history, intelligent design, intrinsic purpose, logos, materialism, metaphysics, natural processes, natural selection, philosophy, physics, Plato, primary sources, Queen Mary University of London, Richard Sternberg, scholars, Socrates, Sophia Connell, teleology, theistic evolution, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism}

Designer Science Misrepresents Aristotle and Ignores Church History

_{Brian Miller
May 28, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics

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C. W. Howell contrasts intelligent design with what he believes is Aquinas’ and Aristotle’s understanding of teleology (purpose) in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 27, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aquinas’ Fifth Way, Aristotle, C. W. Howell, capitalism, Casey Luskin, Christianity, Daniel Kuebler, Darwin and Doctrine, Designer Science, Edward Feser, faith and science, Fr. Michael Chaberek, Franciscan University of Steubenville, intelligence, intelligent causation, intelligent design, James R. Hofmann, Jerry Coyne, Karl Marx, Logan Gage, metaphysics, Michael Behe, philosophers, poor design, purpose, Robert Koons, theologians, theology, Thomas Aquinas, unintelligent entities, William Dembski}

Designer Science Repeats Common Misunderstandings of Thomas Aquinas

_{Brian Miller
May 27, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Aquinas argues that intelligence is recognized precisely because unintelligent entities achieve purposeful ends only when directed by an intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 2, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, academics, accident, Ann Gauger, artificial intelligence, atheist scientists, atheists, beauty, Carl Sagan, cosmos, documentary, domino effect, galaxy, Guillermo Gonzalez, interviews, James T. Kirk, Jay Richards, Lawrence Krauss, nanotechnology, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Star Trek, The Privileged Planet, The Story of Everything, universe, William Shatner}

Neil deGrasse Tyson, William Shatner, and Science’s Next Great Frontier

_{Brian Miller
May 2, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

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The implications of such paradigm-altering evidence are well articulated by William Shatner in his interview. Read More ›