Category: Philosophy of Science

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 21, 2026

Categories
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Deity, doubts, evolution, evolutionary process, evolutionists, ideas, intelligent design, interviews, knowledge, Matt Fradd, monotheists, naturalism, Nature, Pints with Aquinas, reality, reason, science, scientific reasoning, Stephen Meyer, The Daily Wire, The Story of Everything, theaters, theism}

Meyer, Fradd: Atheist Evolutionists Reason as if They Were Theists

_{David Klinghoffer
April 21, 2026

Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Only a loving Deity who endowed us with reason — a highly unnatural gift! — can explain why we are able to think rationally, including about science. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
April 15, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Philosophy of Science
Physics
Tagged
, chemistry, cosmology, God’s Not Dead, gravity, intelligent design, john lennox, Kevin Sorbo, Leonard Mlodinow, Oxford University, philosophy, philosophy of science, physics, showtimes, Singularity, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Grand Design, theaters}

What Grand Design? On Stephen Hawking’s Loophole

_{Terrell Clemmons
April 15, 2026

Cosmology, Philosophy of Science, Physics

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In their 2010 book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow set out to answer a big question. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 12, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, atheists, biology, Cambridge, England, information, information theory, intelligent design, James Orr, mathematics, Natural Sciences, natural theology, Nature, philosophy of science, physics, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, Theory of Everything}

Stephen Meyer in Cambridge: Natural Theology or Intelligent Design?

_{David Klinghoffer
March 12, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Adds James Orr, “You might call it non-natural theology in that your argument around mathematics and information is that it's not naturalistically explicable. Read More ›

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Date
March 11, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin's House of Cards, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, evolutionary theory, Galileo Galilei, John C. Eccles, Karl Popper, Michael Flannery, natural selection, nature, offspring, parents, philosophy of science, purpose, sexual selection, Tom Bethell}

On Natural Selection, Popper’s Posthumous Gift

_{Science & Culture
March 11, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy of Science

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If philosopher of science Karl Popper wanted to leave a gift for those who came after to puzzle over and discuss, he couldn’t have chosen more astutely. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 20, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, AI Overview, archaeology, art, Bas van Fraassen, biology, ChatGPT, complex specified information, computation, computer science, Conservation of Information, control, cryptography, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, Ernest Nagel, experiment, fecundity, Forensics, function, gnana yoga, Grok, Hinduism, ID 3.0 Research Program, Imre Lakatos, information, intelligent design, James Tour, James Woodward, Karl Popper, large language models, Larry Laudan, law, Lex Fridman, living things, materialism, mathematics, mechanism, methodological naturalism, Michael Levin, Nancy Cartwright, naturalism, ontology, origin of life, patterns, Paul Feyerabend, philosophy, Pierre Duhem, Plato, Platonic space, pseudoscience, Richard Dawkins, Sandra Mitchell, scientific theory, SETI, steganography, Stephen Meyer, testability, testing, thermostats, Thomas Kuhn, Tufts University, Willard Van Orman Quine}

Michael Levin and the Philosophy of Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
January 20, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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Levin is not a reflexive Darwinian materialist. Moreover, he touches on many themes that intelligent design theorists touch on. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 2, 2025

Categories
Biology
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, biology, Carl Woese, complementarity, Darwin's Black Box, dualism, Erwin Schrödinger, Essays on Life Itself, function, gravitation, Inertia, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, language, Life Itself, Mass, Michael Behe, molecular biologists, natural selection, phenotype, physics, randomness, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, scientific atheism, scientism, structure, What Is Life?}

In Search of a Unified Theory of Life

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 2, 2025

Biology, Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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It can be said that Erwin Schrödinger anticipated what Michael Behe formally articulated as irreducible complexity. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, assumptions, bank account, brain, chimpanzee genome, Chronicles Magazine, consciousness, human mind, John Zmirak, materialism, materialists, meaning, Michael Egnor, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscientists, neurosurgery, Reductionism, Roman Catholics, science, The Immortal Mind, veridical}

Science Without Materialism: Yes, It Would Still Work

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 8, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy of Science

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What if we assume that our minds really are immaterial? Math still adds up, physics and chemistry are still true, logic still works. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 12, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Carl Sagan, common sense, consciousness, demons, Divine Foot, eliminative materialism, immaterial reality, material world, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, Richard C. Lewontin, split-brain patients, superstition, The Immortal Mind, The New York Review of Books, universe}

Taking the Side of Science — But Which Side?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 12, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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In writing that science’s materialism is absolute, Richard Lewontin wrote as one who did not grasp the fatal flaw in his absolutism. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Amazon, astronomer, beavers, biochemists, biology, chance, elements, evolution, gods, helium, Herbert Spencer, intelligent design, Laurence Moran, life, necessity, New York City, Occam’s razor, On the Origin of Species, parsimony, skyscraper, smartphones, special creation, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, Stonehenge, will}

How Did the Designer Do It?

_{Daniel Witt
July 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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It seems the debate has not progressed much in a century and a half. Clearly, these evolutionary theorists think they have an unanswerable line of attack here. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 10, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, analogy, anthropologists, biology, compartmentalization, defining science, Forensics, geologists, geology, gravity, integration, intelligent design, intelligent designer, methodological pluralism, methodology, natural laws, naturalistic explanations, open-mindedness, patterns, physical world, predictions, psychologists, psychology, real world, science}

Are Scientists Allowed to Consider Unscientific Explanations?

_{Daniel Witt
July 10, 2025

Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Let’s consider a narrower field. Geology, as everyone knows, is concerned with the natural processes that act upon the earth. Read More ›