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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 21, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, biology, cognition, David Klinghoffer, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, electric fields, ENCODE project, evolutionary theory, Forrest Mims, genome, goal-directedness, Harvard University, human genome, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, Michael Levin, minds, Perry Marshall, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, purpose, random mutations, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Seymour Garte, Stuart Kauffman, teleonomy, Tufts University, William A. Dembski}

Plato’s Revenge: Mathematical Biologist Richard Sternberg Foresaw Major Developments in Biology

_{Brian Miller
April 21, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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A new book traces the ideas of Dr. Sternberg, who offers rigorous scientific evidence that the true control center of life lies outside DNA. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, agency, algorithms, biology, chemicals, chemistry, codes, cognition, embryology, engineering, genetic code, Hydra, induction, mammals, Michael Levin, Perry Marshall, predictions, Rutgers University, Seymour Garte, Stuart Kauffman}

New Article Calls for a Philosophical Revolution in Biology, Placing Mind Over Matter

_{Brian Miller
April 17, 2025

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Biology is directed by cognition. But the authors do not attempt to explain the source of cognition or how it originated. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, artificial life, biologic institute, cells, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, genes, ID the Future, Irreducible Complexity, logic, machines, podcast, Research, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution}

Richard Sternberg on the Information Beyond the Genome

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 8, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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There’s “something phenomenal” going on inside the cell, says Dr. Sternberg. Probing and elucidating this mystery has been a focus of his research. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
February 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Mathematics
Metaphysics
Tagged
, a priori, abstract objects, Andreas Wagner, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Discovery Institute, DNA, emergence, flatworms, frogs, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, material world, materialism, Max Tegmark, Mereology, Michael Levin, morphogenesis, mysticism, naturalism, philosophy of biology, physical world, physicalism, Platonism, Platonists, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, secondary qualities, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, teleology, Tufts University, universals, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg}

Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

_{Daniel Witt
February 28, 2025

Biology, Engineering, Mathematics, Metaphysics

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Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 19, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Brian Keating, Bryan Callen, complex life, consciousness, Energy, faith and science, ID the Future, matter, Michael Shermer, mind, podcast, Skeptic Magazine, skepticism, Stephen Meyer, The Bryan Callen Show, truth, UC San Diego, universe}

Faith, Reason, and the Search for Truth: Stephen Meyer and Michael Shermer

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 19, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Origin of Life

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Dr. Meyer calls math mind-independent. We discover it, we don’t invent it. And it’s conceptual, not a physical material thing. Why is that Important? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 3, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Mathematics
Tagged
, calculations, chatbot, chimpanzees, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, earth, Gemini, genetic diversity, Google, human origins, humans, logic, myths, natural selection, numbers}

Human Evolution by the Numbers: Chatbot Weighs In

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 3, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Mathematics

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The Darwinian story of human evolution from an ape-like creature is probably the most powerful modern secular myth. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
January 16, 2025

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Technology
Tagged
, Bruce Gordon, Center for Science and Culture, Douglas Axe, natural selection, natural theology, San Diego, specified complexity, The Design Inference, universe, William A. Dembski}

Design Writ Large: CSC Fellows on “Science, Mathematics, and Technology”

_{Stephen Dilley
January 16, 2025

Biology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Technology

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Bill Dembski led by explaining rigorous means to detect design, including a refined understanding of specified complexity. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Conservation of Information, Design Inference, Eugenie Scott, evolution, evolutionary computing, fitness, intelligent design, mount improbable, Nature (journal), Peter Robinson, Richard Dawkins, shell game, simulation, Tesla, The Blind Watchmaker, Thomas Ray, Thomas Schneider, William Shakespeare}

The Displacement Fallacy: Evolution’s Shell Game

_{William A. Dembski
January 10, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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In a shell game, an operator places a small object, like a pea, under one of three cups and then rapidly shuffles the cups to confuse observers. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 9, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, Boltzmann brain, Brian Miller, Elie Feder, faith and science, ID the Future, intelligent design, Judaism, measure problem, multiverse, Physics to God, podcast, Talmud}

Feder, Zimmer on the Boltzmann Brain Problem and the Measure Problem

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 9, 2025

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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If a grand multiverse contains everything that’s possible, it ends up explaining nothing. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 7, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Tagged
, Ball State University, Censor of the Year, Center for Science and Culture, chromosomes, Colin Wright, Eric Hedin, freedom from religion foundation, John West, religion, Richard Dawkins, sex binary, Steven Pinker, Stockholm Syndrome, University of Chicago, uterus, vagina, woke ideology, woman}

In the Battle for Biology, Woke Folks Come for Coyne

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 7, 2025

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Mathematics

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Woke is, at bottom, a war on reality. It is a war on math. And a war on science. That includes a war on biology, of course. Read More ›