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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
March 19, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Physics
Tagged
, air, Ambrose, Aristotle, Basil of Caesarea, Bible, Biblical texts, cellulose, Christianity, Chrysostom, classical science, demiurge, duck, earth, elements, Ephrem the Syrian, fire, form, Genesis, house, John Calvin, Justin Martyr, Martin Luther, matter, metal, metaphysics, nuclear reactions, Periodic Table, philosophy, pipes, plastic, Plato, rabbit, radioactive decay, scientific ideas, Septuagint, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Tertullian, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, Timaeus, water, wires, Wisdom of Solomon, wood}

Can Formless Matter Exist? A Pitfall in Reading Biblical Texts

_{Winston Ewert
March 19, 2026

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Physics

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The solution is to go back to the source and follow the text to see what it actually says. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
March 12, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Tagged
, almightiness, Aquinas, Big Bang, bodily fluids, bread, Christian Church, Christianity, Chrysostom, conservation of matter, early church, entropy, galaxies, heavens, heretics, immutability, modern science, natural processes, Origen, Scripture, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, theology, theory of relativity, universe}

Is Matter Conserved? Ancient and Modern Views

_{Winston Ewert
March 12, 2026

Cosmology, Faith & Science

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Christians accepted that the principle, nothing comes from nothing, was true for processes in nature. God, however, was not bound by this limitation. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
March 11, 2026

Categories
History of Science
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, aether, air, Aristotle, Bible, Center for Science and Culture, change, circular movement, cosmologists, creation, dark energy, dark matter, destruction, earth, elements, ethers, fire, galaxies, heavens, heavy elements, immutability, light elements, linear movement, modern science, natural forces, night, outer space, pace, physics, rotation, smoke, speed, stars, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, water, Winston Ewert}

Are the Heavens Immutable? An Ancient Scientific Question

_{Winston Ewert
March 11, 2026

History of Science, Philosophy, Physics

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Modern theories postulate entities to account for differences between what we would expect from physics and our observations of distant space. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
August 12, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, augustine, Basil Willey, Christianity, Church Fathers, computer scientists, Copernican Revolution, creationists, Darwinian evolution, evolution, faith and science, historians, intelligent design, Scripture, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, theologians, theology, Thomas Aquinas, universal common ancestry, Winston Ewert}

What’s Bothering Augustine?

_{Winston Ewert
August 12, 2025

Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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I began to understand that there was a rich history of the interaction between the Church and premodern science, but not one that is widely known. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 28, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, coincidence, deception, Design Inference, Gregor Mendel, honesty, improbability, New York Times, peas, plagiarism, probability, protocols, specification, UC San Diego}

Mendel’s Peas and More: Inferring Data Falsification in Science

_{William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 28, 2023

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Physical Sciences

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What keeps scientific fraud in check is our ability to detect it, and it’s the design inference that does the detecting. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, biological systems, chance, Charles Darwin, Climbing Mount Improbable, Darwinian mechanism, Darwinians, evolution, intelligent design, luck, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, pattern, probabilistic resources, probability, randomness, Richard Dawkins, specified complexity, target, The Blind Watchmaker, The Design Inference, theists, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Natural Selection as the Great Designer Substitute

_{William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 27, 2023

Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In this way, the majority of evolutionary biologists, insofar as they understand the design inference at all, rationalize it away. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagella, biological systems, Brown University, complexity, Conservation of Information, Darwin's Black Box, Douglas Axe, epilogue, evolution, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, natural selection, No Free Lunch, random variation, Richard Dawkins, The Design Inference}

An Argument from Ignorance?

_{William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 17, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Richard Dawkins, better than anyone, has publicly championed the dogma that Darwinian pathways can and must always exist for any biological system. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
April 18, 2016

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Tagged
, __cedited, evolution, Research, science, snake}

Haarsma’s Pykaryotes — Another Failed Evolution Simulation

_{Winston Ewert
April 18, 2016

Computational Sciences, Evolution

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If Professor Haarsma's name sounds familiar that may be because he is the husband of BioLogos president Deborah Haarsma. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
March 23, 2016

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Tagged
, __cedited, evolution, functional complexity, science, Views, William A. Dembski}

Ev Ever Again — Eying an Evolutionary Simulation

_{Winston Ewert
March 23, 2016

Computational Sciences, Evolution

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Imagine coming across a dubious salesman with an allegedly magic swimming pool. He claims that the pool fills itself with water. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
February 3, 2016

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __cedited, Research, science, Views}

Steiner Wars: An Exchange with Dave Thomas

_{Winston Ewert
February 3, 2016

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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To visualize a Steiner tree, think about a collection of cities to be connected by a road network. Read More ›