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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
May 31, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, anticipation, August Weismann, Bible, biosphere, building blocks, causation, Chance and Necessity, cognition, Design Inference, DNA, electromagnetism, Ferrari, final cause, flowering plants, Francis Crick, grizzly bear, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Jaques Monod, natural selection, natural theology, necessity, nectar, pollinators, purpose, science of purpose, telos, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, tuna, William A. Dembski, wolf}

Teleology: Anticipation and Necessity

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
May 31, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Imagine a primordial grizzly bear on the northern edge of the forest adjacent to the Arctic. His soma senses the differences of the new environment. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Alexander T. Englert, Apostle Paul, biology, creator, David Klinghoffer, DNA, evolution, Genesis, genome, Günter Bechly, incompleteness theorem, Institute for Advanced Study, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Kurt Gödel, naturalism, paleontologists, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, RNA, Roger Penrose, software, topology, transcription, unguided processes, University of Chicago}

Sternberg Reveals the Truths that Give Life

_{Eric Hedin
May 27, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Additional support for the plausibility of the immaterial nature of the genome can perhaps be found from implications of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. Read More ›

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Date
May 22, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, A. N. Whitehead, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, epigenetics, footnotes, genome, hard science, immaterial genome, Neil Thomas, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Taking Leave of Darwin}

If Richard Sternberg Is Right, That Would Be the End of Darwinism

_{Science & Culture
May 22, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, History of Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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If the genome is not wholly material, then a fully material process like Darwinian evolution cannot even gain full access to it. Read More ›

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Date
May 22, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Bruce Greyson, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, David Klinghoffer, death, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Institute, Gary Habermas, matter, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Sean McDowell, soul, spirit, The Immortal Mind}

Egnor: The Soul Has No Off Switch

_{Science & Culture
May 22, 2025

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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"You’re not going to hear from a mathematics department at the local university that the number 8 passed away yesterday." Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 19, 2025

Categories
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, Aristotle, biology, Brian Miller, calculations, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, Denis Noble, Empedocles, evolution, information, Irreducible Complexity, Jupiter, Michael Behe, Middle Ages, Nature (journal), neurons, Oxford University, Peter Corning, Plato's Revenge, Presocratic philosophers, René Descartes, telescope, Theodosius Dobzhansky, University of Zurich}

Settled Science Is Becoming Radically Unsettled: Get Ready for Revolutions

_{Daniel Witt
May 19, 2025

History of Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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It might be early to say whether Richard Sternberg's calculations are correct — but the point is, this kind of calculation is only just becoming possible. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 19, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, Carlo Rovelli, dark matter, fine-tuning, Higgs Boson, hype, intelligent design, intelligent designer, Karl Popper, multiverse, Nature (journal), Nobel Prize, physicists, physics, quantum gravity, Standard Model, string theory, theoretical physics, Thomas Kuhn}

What Drives All that “New Physics” Hype? Could It Be Fear of Intelligent Design?

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 19, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physics

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Many thinkers are troubled by the massive evidence for fine-tuning of our universe. They want to believe that a multiverse just popped into existence. Read More ›

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Date
May 7, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, biologists, biology, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, evolution, genetic variations, genome, immaterial genome, intelligent design, life, material processes, natural selection, natural world, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg}

Richard Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome Is Darwinism’s Silver Bullet

_{Science & Culture
May 7, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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This may sound spooky, but as Dr. Brian Miller explains, it is chiefly the application of advanced mathematics that dictates Dr. Sternberg’s conclusion. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 6, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, abstract thought, Aristotle, blood pressure, brain function, brain state, breathing, Denyse O'Leary, Edward Feser, elementary particles, emotion, heart rate, hormones, intellect, logic, matter, measurements, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, movement, neuroscience, perception, photons, Plato, precision, puppy, soul, triangle, uncertainty, Uncertainty Principle, will}

The Logical Basis of the Immaterial Mind

_{Michael Egnor
May 6, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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The indeterminacy of matter precludes brain states from forming the basis of abstract thought. Simple logic points to this truth. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, 23andMe, Amazon, archaeology, Brown University, Columbia University, David Klinghoffer, dementia, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, epigenetics, genome, Greek, Greeks, humans, immaterial genome, journalism, Latin, Los Angeles, National Review, Orthodox Judaism, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Robert Rosen, whales, William F. Buckley Jr., yeast}

Spooked by Sternberg: From the Introduction to Plato’s Revenge

_{David Klinghoffer
May 5, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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All familiar thinking about the genome assumes that it is, of course, purely material. From this premise, biologist Richard Sternberg radically departs. Read More ›

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Date
May 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Physics
Tagged
, Alfred North Whitehead, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anaxagoras, Charles Darwin, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute Press, immaterial genome, Michael Flannery, neo-Darwinists, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, quantum physics, Richard Sternberg, Werner Heisenberg}

Flannery: What Werner Heisenberg Foresaw

_{Science & Culture
May 5, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physics

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“I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact these smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense." Read More ›