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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
History of Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, data, environmentalism, equity, geological features, indigenous people, indigenous wisdom, Nature Communications, nature rights, religion}

“Indigenous Wisdom” Would Make Environmental Science Less Scientific

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 10, 2025

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, History of Science, Physical Sciences

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Indigenous people were and are keen observers of nature but modern environment policy needs to be deeply rooted in science as well as culture. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 3, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, Casey Luskin, Christianity, Cleveland, Evangelical Christians, faith, God Hypothesis, intelligent design, John West, molecular machines, Myth of the Dark Ages, New York Times, non-Christians, Peter Biles, prestige, Return of the God Hypothesis, Ross Douthat, scientific revolution, social anxiety, Stephen Meyer, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, Warfare Thesis}

John West: Science’s Debt to Intelligent Design Is Not Just in the Past — But Today

_{David Klinghoffer
February 3, 2025

Engineering, Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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The God hypothesis… Where have I heard that phrase, used by columnist Ross Douthat, before? Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 20, 2025

Categories
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Ada Lovelace, BIO-Complexity, Charles Babbage, closed system, computer science, Conservation of Information, Edgar Allan Poe, Energy, entropy, information, intellectual history, large language models, Law of Conservation of Information, Leonard Susskind, Peter Medawar, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Robert J. Marks II, search}

Conservation of Information: The History of an Idea

_{William A. Dembski
January 20, 2025

History of Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Conservation of information” is a term that appears in both the physics and the computer science literature. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, Anaximander, Asa Gray, Bible, California, Charles Darwin, Council of Nicaea, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Genesis, Hamlet, Hebrew Bible, hierophany, Higher Criticism, James Moore, Journal of Researches, King James Bible, miracles, Mircea Eliade, Neal Gillespie, On the Origin of Species, poetry, prophets, Pyrrho, Robert Fitzroy, secularism, St. Paul, Tertullian, The Canon, The Voyage of the Beagle, William Paley}

With “Fluctuating” Convictions, Darwin Faced a Threefold Challenge

_{Neil Thomas
July 3, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science

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In what follows I pose the question of how Darwin fell subject to such wide “fluctuations” in his beliefs and how he came to resolve those tensions. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
March 5, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
History of Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinism, earth, epicycles, evolution, Galileo Galilei, geocentric model, geocentricism, hydrogen, Louis Pasteur, maggots, natural selection, nature, Nicolaus Copernicus, predictions, Ptolemy, quantum mechanics, reality, Richard Feynman, Robert Shedinger, scientific theory, solar system, spontaneous generation}

Does Darwinism Meet the Tests of a True Theory?

_{Eric Hedin
March 5, 2024

Biology, Evolution, History of Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

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An example of a now-discarded theory is that of spontaneous generation, a hypothetical process of living organisms developing from nonliving matter. Read More ›

Sunset on the red rocks of the Garden of the Gods State Park in Colorado Springs

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Date
March 4, 2024

Categories
Arts
Biochemistry
Bioethics
Cosmology
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy of Science
Physics
Science Education
Tagged
, application, Brian Miller, C.S. Lewis, C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society, careers, Casey Luskin, Colorado, computational biology, deadline, developmental biology, economics, education, embryology, graduate students, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, Jay Richards, John West, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Egnor, molecular biology, paleontology, Politics, professionals, researchers, Robert J. Marks II, scholars, scientism, scientists, Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, teachers, technocracy, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, theology, Travel, Wesley J. Smith}

Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design Are FREE but the Application DEADLINE Approaches

_{Science and Culture
March 4, 2024

Arts, Biochemistry, Bioethics, Cosmology, History of Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy of Science, Physics, Science Education

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In the shadow of 14,000-foot Pikes Peak, we’ll meet and learn from the top scientists and scholars in the ID community. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 26, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, Artificial Selection, Darwin Mythology, Darwin's bulldog, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinian theory, debates, Dogs, history, Oxford, pigeons, precambrian fossils, Quarterly Review, Richard Owen, theology, Thomas Henry Huxley}

What Really Happened at the Huxley-Wilberforce Debate?

_{Robert Shedinger
February 26, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science

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The stereotype portraying Wilberforce as the pompous bishop rejecting Darwin on theological grounds is easily dispelled. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
February 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwin Day, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinian racism, Darwinism, demythologization, dogmatism, evolution, history, intelligent design, Jeffrey Kripal, Luther College, On the Origin of Species, religion, Rice University, Richard Weikart, Robert Shedinger, Steve Fuller, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, University of Warwick}

For Darwin Day, Robert Shedinger Calls Darwin’s Bluff

_{Jonathan Witt
February 12, 2024

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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Tucked away in Charles Darwin’s surviving papers is a lengthy manuscript he never finished. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 22, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Faith & Science
History of Science
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, atheism, Bernard Acworth, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Christianity, evolution, faith and science, fantasy, four-bar linkage, Francis Collins, hubris, Jesus Christ, junk DNA, knuckle-walkers, Lehigh University, lion, London, Michael Behe, Michael Ruse, Narnia, Richard Dawkins, scientific revolution, Stuart Burgess, The Chronicles of Narnia, theistic evolutionists, theological objections, William Shakespeare}

In the Scientific Enterprise, the Wildness of Aslan Counsels Humility

_{Jonathan Witt
January 22, 2024

Engineering, Faith & Science, History of Science, Scientific Trustworthiness

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Science has made many of its grandest leaps in the face of a mainstream of scientists stubbornly defending a dominant but misguided paradigm. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 5, 2024

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, agency, Annie Besant, atheism, Charles Bradlaugh, Cicero, Connop Thirlwall, David Hanke, David Newsome, deduction, Enlightenment, evolution, fact, Garden of Eden, induction, intellectual history, intelligent design, James Henry Froude, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gribbin, Julian Huxley, metaphysics, Nancy Pearcey, natural selection, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, Paul Davies, progress, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholic, teleology, theology, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe, Uncertainty Principle, vera causa, Victorian England, watchmaker, Werner Heisenberg, William Blake}

Darwinism as Fact? The Waning of an Historical Myth

_{Neil Thomas
January 5, 2024

Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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Historically the unfathomable subtleties of our terrestrial environment have been viewed as in and of themselves empirical markers for design. Read More ›