Category: Physical Sciences

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 17, 2026

Categories
Chemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, advanced life, Andromeda, chemistry, Children of Light, coincidences, compounds, comprehension, cosmos, Darwinism, density, earth, evidence, hydrological cycle, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, land, Michael Denton, oxygen, photochemistry, photosynthesis, playing cards, The Wonder of Water, transparency, viscosity, water}

The Remarkable Life-Friendly Properties of Sunlight and Water

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 17, 2026

Chemistry, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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“The right light,” says Dr. McLatchie, would be like the thickness of “a few playing cards in a stack stretching beyond the galaxy of Andromeda.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 16, 2026

Categories
Biochemistry
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, advanced life, atheism, biochemistry, biology, cellular level, Darwin’s Black Box, decision-making, evolution, Goldilocks Zone, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, life, Michael Behe, moral agents, naturalism, nature, non-metal atoms, organic bonds, podcast}

Carbon Atom Is Stunningly Fit to Accommodate Advanced Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 16, 2026

Biochemistry, Chemistry, Intelligent Design

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Nature doesn’t owe us a life-friendly environment. There are far more ways the universe could have developed that are non-conducive to life. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 15, 2026

Categories
Astronomy
Planetology
Tagged
, astronomy, atmosphere, axial tilt, cosmos, exoplanets, habitability, habitable zone, ID the Future, instrument sensitivity, intelligent design, investigations, James Webb Space Telescope, liquid water, magnetosphere, Nancy Roman Space Telescope, nitrogen, oxygen, planetary neighbors, podcast, tectonics, Tellus1 Scientific, water}

How Rare Is Earth? Ask Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 15, 2026

Astronomy, Planetology

2}

Will the Nancy Roman Space Telescope help us find other habitable worlds elsewhere in our galaxy? Absolutely. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 14, 2026

Categories
Astronomy
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, coronagraph, cosmos, exoplanets, expectations, humanity, ID the Future, James Webb Space Telescope, Nancy Roman Space Telescope, NASA, observations, physicists, podcast, researchers, space telescope, Tellus1 Scientific}

How Intelligent Design Enriches Space Exploration

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 14, 2026

Astronomy, Intelligent Design, Planetology

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I am delighted to begin a two-part conversation with physicist Dr. Bijan Nemati about his work on the Nancy Roman Space Telescope. Read More ›

Question and answer audience or crowd : Active participation Asian man raise hands to ask questions attending seminar in conference meeting and training

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 12, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, background knowledge, Big Bang, Big Mysteries Survey, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, Bruce Gordon, cosmology, fine-tuning, intelligent design, likelihoods, Matt Dillahunty, naturalism, Phil Halper, physicists, physics, Piers Morgan Uncensored, probability theory, Richard Dawkins, spacetime, Stephen Meyer, surveys, theism, universe}

In Debate with Meyer, Matt Dillahunty Brandishes His “Surveys”

_{David Klinghoffer
October 12, 2026

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Maybe Dillahunty had consulted some other survey that morning, but a “show of hands” is certainly no ground for adjudicating matters of this nature. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
October 8, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physics
Tagged
, anthropic design, antimatter, antiparticles, Arthur Holly Compton, asymmetries, atoms, Big Bang, conservation laws, conservation of momentum, Emmy Noether, Energy, Ernest Rutherford, Ethan Siegel, fermions, fine-tuning, fundamental forces, interstellar space, intuition, life, mathematicians, matter, meaning, neutrinos, nucleus, particles, physics, planetary orbits, planets, universe}

Conservation Laws and Life: If It Looks Designed, It Is

_{Eric Hedin
October 8, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physics

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In the early 20th century, a remarkable discovery came to light that showed a foundational basis for the conservation laws of physics. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
October 7, 2026

Categories
Astronomy
Planetology
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Are the Planets Inhabited?, astronomers, canals, E. M. Antoniadi, E. Walter Maunder, earth, Giovanni Schiaparelli, intelligence, intelligent design, Is Mars Habitable?, Man’s Place in the Universe, Mariner 4, Mars, Mars (book), Mars and Its Canals, Mars as the Abode of Life, Martians, meteorites, optical illusions, Percival Lowell, planets, universe}

Canals on Mars: A Mistaken Design Inference

_{Winston Ewert
October 7, 2026

Astronomy, Planetology

5}

Any remaining doubts were settled by Mariner 4 which flew by Mars in 1965 and took pictures demonstrating that there were no canals. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 28, 2026

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Amazon Prime, bean jar, Blu-ray, Brian Miller, Bruce Gordon, Christopher Hitchcock, cosmic origins, cosmological models, debates, dice, fine-tuning, ID the Future, intelligent design, multiverse, naturalism, Phil Halper, physics, scoring system, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, universe}

Gordon and Miller Answer Objections to Cosmic Fine-Tuning

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 28, 2026

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Fine-tuning strongly favors theism because it predicts a life-permitting order in advance, while naturalism only retrofits explanations after the fact. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
September 23, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alexander Vilenkin, Boltzmann brain, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin, cosmologists, Everettian universe, fine-tuning, Hartle-Hawking model, Ijjas-Steinhardt model, inflationary string landscape, intelligent design, John Leslie, knowledge, Lawrence Krauss, metalevels, observer-selection effect, past-eternality, quantum cosmology, quantum mechanics, Samson, Sean Carroll, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, temporal beginning, The Grand Design, The Telegraph, universe, Vilenkin model}

So, You Say that No Cosmologists Have Ever Claimed the Universe Came from Nothing?

_{Bruce Gordon
September 23, 2026

Cosmology, Physics, Scientific Reasoning

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Like mighty Samson of old, in a single-handed effort physicist Bruce Gordon responded to 1,870+ comments. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
September 21, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, anthropic fine-tuning, atheism, biochemical complexity, black holes, Brian Miller, cosmological Darwinism, cosmological natural selection, cosmology, Darwinism, energy sources, fine-tuning, humanity, humans, IAI News, Jeff Shainline, Lee Smolin, Louis Crane, materialism, Michael Behe, near-death experiences, physicists, physics, science fiction, technology, The Privileged Planet, The Story of Everything, universe}

Fine-Tuning — for the Universe or for Life? A Physicist Exercises His Imagination

_{Eric Hedin
September 21, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

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Teetering on the brink of science fiction is the supposition that advanced civilizations would utilize black holes for energy sources. Read More ›