Author: Kirk Durston

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
November 25, 2025

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, aneurysm, axioms, beliefs, blood, body, brain, brain hemispheres, C.S. Lewis, decision, emergence, falsification, free will, heart, illusion, immaterial mind, laws, laws of nature, libertarian free will, mathematics, Michael Egnor, mind, neurosurgery, physics, Sabine Hossenfelder, scientific method, scientists, surgery, thinking}

A Close Look at Free Will: What Should Our Default Position Be?

_{Kirk Durston
November 25, 2025

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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The hypothesis that we have an immaterial mind capable of making free, meaningful decisions, continues to be verified. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
May 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Metascience
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, a priori, Alzheimer’s disease, amino acids, Bret Weinstein, common descent, Darwinism, Darwinists, DNA, Eugene Koonin, evolution, evolutionary biology, failed predictions, functional information, genetic drift, genomes, Jack Szostak, Long Term Evolutionary Experiment, lying, multiverse, mutations, natural selection, Nature (journal), Parkinson’s disease, population, predictions, protein-coding genes, proteins, pseudoscience, Richard Lenski, Robert Hazen, scientists, variation}

How Darwinism Became a Pseudoscience

_{Kirk Durston
May 15, 2025

Evolution, Life Sciences, Metascience, Scientific Reasoning

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To be clear, I am not suggesting that Darwinists are conspiring to deliberately mislead people, although such misleading is certainly happening. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
August 2, 2019

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, "God of the gaps", archeology, CERN, Cold War, DNA, fingerprints, Forensics, functional information, genomes, intelligence, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, James Tour, Large Hadron Collider, Michael Behe, ocean, Robert Hazen, scientific method, SETI, smartphones, Stephen Meyer}

A Scientific Method for Design Detection

_{Kirk Durston
August 2, 2019

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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My first exposure to intelligent design detection in science took place during a summer job with National Defence Research in 1978 as an engineering student. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
April 25, 2019

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Bernard Carr, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Craig Venter, Darwinism, DNA, Eugene Koonin, experimental science, fantasy, fantasy science, George Ellis, inferential science, molecular machines, multiverse, nature, North America, Ockham’s razor, proteins, Roger Penrose, Sabine Hossenfelder, science, science fiction, scientism}

On Fantasy in Modern Science

_{Kirk Durston
April 25, 2019

Cosmology, Evolution, Faith & Science

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An attribute of a good sci-fi story is that it should open new vistas for the imagination while, at the same time, not requiring the reader to put up with the preposterous. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
April 15, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, amino acids, atheism, Austin Hughes, bacteria, Bible, Canada, common descent, Darwinian theory, Eugene Koonin, evolution, evolutionary biology, faith, fruit flies, humans, inferential science, observations, science, scientism}

Inferential Science — What Could Go Wrong?

_{Kirk Durston
April 15, 2019

Evolution, Geology, Origin of Life

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There are many solid, trustworthy inferences in modern science, but there are those that are not very trustworthy at all. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
March 31, 2019

Categories
Engineering
Faith & Science
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, accountability, aircraft, Bible, biophysics, cancer, climate change, experimental science, faith, inferential science, International Space Station, Nature (journal), Psalms, science, science fiction, smart phones, Vaccines, Winnipeg}

Experimental Science and Its Implications for Faith

_{Kirk Durston
March 31, 2019

Engineering, Faith & Science, Technology

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A nice thing about being young is that you have no idea how much you do not know. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
May 1, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, book, cells, Eugene Koonin, evolution, genetic code, intelligent design, mind, multiverse, natural processes, null hypothesis, Ockham’s razor, p-value, Richard Dawkins, science, The Blind Watchmaker, universes}

Reality Check: Has Science Explained the Origin of Life?

_{Kirk Durston
May 1, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Imagine you wanted someone who hasn’t the faintest idea what a book is to make a book from scratch. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
November 14, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, astronaut, atheism, Church of England, corruption, DNA, faith, funding, intelligent design, nature, power, Research, scientism, software, truth}

A Former Astronaut and Scientism

_{Kirk Durston
November 14, 2017

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Scientism is the belief that science explains literally everything. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
June 2, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Austin Hughes, Eugene Koonin, extraterrestrial life, God, intelligent design, NASA, universe}

Could Atheism Survive the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life?

_{Kirk Durston
June 2, 2017

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Recently, NASA granted a million dollars to the Center of Theological Inquiry. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
May 3, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, __k-review, entropy, information, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, Robert Hazen, Shannon information}

Fingerprints of an Intelligent Programmer: The “Entropy = Information” Mistake

_{Kirk Durston
May 3, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

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Note that this is not an argument based on, “We don’t know what can write computer code, therefore God did it.” Read More ›