Author: Granville Sewell

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 16, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physics
Tagged
, __featured3, apology, Applied Mathematics Letters, compensation argument, errors, humans, humor, intelligent design, Kirk Sewell, laymen, life, materialists, mathematics, natural causes, peer-reviewed literature, Physics Essays, Rick Romager, sarcasm, Science and Culture Today, scientific rigor, Second Law of Thermodynamics, YouTube videos}

A Note on the “Compensation” Argument

_{Granville Sewell
June 16, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physics

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This debate is not really too complicated for the layman to understand, though it seems to be too simple for many scientists. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 2, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, A Biologist’s View, African elephants, Asian elephants, Bible, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, chimps, classes, computers, creations, Darwinism, designs, evolution, Evolution after Darwin, explosions, fossil record, Genesis, George Gaylord Simpson, Gorilla gorilla, Günter Bechly, Homo sapiens, human exceptionalism, humans, intelligent design, Jean Rostand, orders, Pan paniscus, phyla, software, species pair problem, theists, TimeTree.org, University of Chicago Press}

Günter Bechly and the “Species Pair” Problem

_{Granville Sewell
June 2, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Asian elephants (like the one at the top of this page) and their African counterparts apparently diverged about 8 million years ago. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
May 29, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, agnostics, atheists, beetles, beginning, Bible, Big Bang, biochemistry, biological origins, biology, butterflies, Christians, creation, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian selection, evolution, fine-tuning, geneticists, Grand Canyon, humans, intelligent design, J. B. S. Haldane, Jews, molecular machines, natural selection, Noah, physics, protoplasm, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science and Culture Today, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, universes, University of Texas at Austin, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

In Fifty Years, How the Discussion About Science and Faith Has Changed

_{Granville Sewell
May 29, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Decades ago, as I can recall from personal experience, there seemed to be only two choices. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
April 29, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Armin Moczek, biochemistry, BioCosmos, children, Christianity for Doubters, civilizations, College Physics, computers, Darwin’s Black Box, Darwin’s Doubt, David Snoke, engineering, Eric Anderson, evolution, Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell, eyes, Field Museum of Natural History, Foresight (book), George Gaylord Simpson, humans, intelligent design, James Tour, John von Neumann, Marcos Eberlin, mathematicians, Michael Behe, Nobel Prize, origin of life, Peter Urone, phones, reproduction, Rice University, Robotica, self-reproduction, simplicity, spaceships, The Story of Everything}

Four Major Questions for Materialists

_{Granville Sewell
April 29, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Let’s look at the long, complicated counterargument of the materialists to see if we can find the errors or unverified points. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
March 30, 2026

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mathematician’s View of Evolution, Albert Einstein, Albuquerque, best seller, Big Bang, David Berlinski, DNA, Energy, Eric Esau, Fathom Entertainment, fine-tuning, fundamental forces, general relativity, helium, hydrogen, information, intelligent design, James Tour, john lennox, living cell, materialism, matter, Michael Behe, Michael Kent, New York Times, Peter Thiel, physics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sandia Laboratories, scientific discoveries, Secrets of the Cell with Michael Behe, space, stars, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, theaters, universe}

New Movie Reveals the “Hidden Hand Behind Our Universe”

_{Granville Sewell
March 30, 2026

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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A great deal of evidence indicates that the universe (space, time, matter, and energy) came into existence from nothing about 14 billion years ago. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
March 25, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, apes, Arne Schirmacher, ATP, Australopithecus, Bible, Cambrian Explosion, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, designer, Energy, geneticists, German, grass, Günter Bechly, humans, Institute of Genetics, Köln, living fossils, Max Planck Institute, metabolic processes, mice, naturalism, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, nucleotide differences, origin of life, Peter Pan, protein sequences, Richard Dawkins, Science and Culture Today, subway, University of Bonn, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, yeast}

Geneticist W. E. Lönnig on Human-Chimp DNA Similarity, and Much More

_{Granville Sewell
March 25, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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"The same people who admit that they are unable to create a single blade of grass tell you that they are absolutely sure they know how it came about." Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
March 5, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, Albuquerque, algorithms, alternative splicing, amino acid sequences, Andrew McDiarmid, Brian Josephson, Cambrian Explosion, Cambridge University, Center for Science and Culture, David Waltham, digital information, discoveries, earth, Earth-like planets, enzymes, fundamental constants, genes, ID the Future, information processing, initial conditions, junk DNA, life, Lucky Planet, Michael Kent, molecular biology, molecular machines, mutation, natural selection, physics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sandia National Laboratories, spliceosome, Stephen Meyer, universe, Why Evolution Is Different}

Stay Informed about the Evidence for Design, with Michael Kent

_{Granville Sewell
March 5, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design, Planetology

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Technological advances have led to the discovery of planets outside our solar system, with news heralding the discovery of many “earth-like” planets. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
February 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, atoms, BIO-Complexity, civilization, computers, Darwinists, disorder, earth, encyclopedias, entropy, equations, evolution, information, intelligence, intelligent design, iPhones, machines, order, physics, probability, Science and Culture Today, Second Law of Thermodynamics, solar energy, sun, tautology, tornado}

A Friend Asks: For Darwin Skeptics, What Does the Second Law Argument Accomplish?

_{Granville Sewell
February 6, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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The only law of science that the development of civilization on a barren planet could violate is the (generalized) second law of thermodynamics. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
January 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, automobiles, chemical processes, Christianity for Doubters, computers, evolution, George Gaylord Simpson, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, jet airplanes, natural selection, nuclear power plants, physics, power plants, skulls, smart phones, software, technology, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, unintelligent forces}

The Strongest Argument for Intelligent Design Is Also the Simplest

_{Granville Sewell
January 6, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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“Those are just the skulls,” I protested. “The outside of my 1980s PC looks pretty similar to the frame of my new HP computer." Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 13, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Biologist’s View, Alexander Tsiaras, Artificial Selection, birth, conception, development, duplication errors, evolution, foresight, geneticists, genotype, Giuseppe Sermonti, growth, In the Beginning, intelligent design, Jean Rostand, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, natural selection, Oxford University, phenotype, Yale University}

The “Three Cardinal Problems of Biology,” Revisited

_{Granville Sewell
June 13, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In the last 70 years it was expected by many that all three of Jean Rostand's "cardinal problems of biology" would be solved without design. Read More ›