Category: Physical Sciences

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 12, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
History of Science
Physics
Tagged
, astrology, Bible, Center for Science and Culture, Christian Church, Christianity, determinism, early Christian thinkers, evidence, Greek philosophies, heavens, ID the Future, immutability, intellectual humility, intelligent design, modern science, morality, original sources, podcast, science and faith, scientific consensus, scientific theories, Scripture, software engineers, theology, Winston Ewert}

Historical Reasoning, Modern Science: A Conversation with Winston Ewert

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 12, 2026

Cosmology, Faith & Science, History of Science, Physics

2}

Dr. Ewert and I dive into the rich history of how early Christian thinkers engaged with the scientific consensus of their time. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
March 11, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, Aristotelian cosmos, Copernican displacement, cosmic enormity, cosmic scale, cosmology, Dante, demotion, divine hiddenness, fine-tuning, fine-tuning argument, Hell, human centrality, intelligent cause, intelligibility, methodology, motivation, natural philosophy, naturalism, posteriors, priors, promotion, Psalms, Robert B. Stewart, Satan, scientific revolution, Scripture, Sean Carroll, Stephen Meyer, The Blackwell Companion to Christian Apologetics, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism, theology, Timothy McGrew, universe}

Sean Carroll and the Counter-Evidence Considered

_{Bruce Gordon
March 11, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

9}

My present concern is to articulate and confront Carroll's charge that the fine-tuning argument engages in some evidential shenanigans. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
March 11, 2026

Categories
History of Science
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, aether, air, Aristotle, Bible, Center for Science and Culture, change, circular movement, cosmologists, creation, dark energy, dark matter, destruction, earth, elements, ethers, fire, galaxies, heavens, heavy elements, immutability, light elements, linear movement, modern science, natural forces, night, outer space, pace, physics, rotation, smoke, speed, stars, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, water, Winston Ewert}

Are the Heavens Immutable? An Ancient Scientific Question

_{Winston Ewert
March 11, 2026

History of Science, Philosophy, Physics

5}

Modern theories postulate entities to account for differences between what we would expect from physics and our observations of distant space. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
February 27, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, Andrew Loke, Bayesian reasoning, Boltzmann brains, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, chemistry, Chris Smeenk, cosmology, fine-tuning, fine-tuning argument, Ian Hacking, Ken Olum, Kenny Boyce, loop quantum cosmology, Luke Barnes, naturalism, nuclear physics, Philip Swenson, philosophers, Porter Williams, quantum mechanics, Roger White, Sean Carroll, stellar structure, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism}

Fine-Tuning and the Infinite Multiverse

_{Bruce Gordon
February 27, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

10}

An endless multiverse is a context in which every outcome occurs infinitely many times, rendering calculations of probability ill-defined. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
February 26, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, abiogenesis, alphabet soup, Canceled Science, creationists, Douglas Axe, earth, evolutionists, functional complexity, generalized second law of thermodynamics, information, intelligence, intelligent beings, intelligent design, James Tour, matter, Michael Behe, micro-needle, molecular structures, natural processes, New Generalized Second Law, Origins and Destiny, particles, patterns, physicists, physics, Robert Gange, spoon, star, sun}

Foundational Evidence for Design: The Generalized Second Law of Thermodynamics

_{Eric Hedin
February 26, 2026

Intelligent Design, Physics

9}

For almost the last 40 years, I have understood the truth of Gange's statement based on its foundation in well-established laws of physics. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
February 18, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, Bayesian reasoning, cosmology, fine-tuning, Hans Halvorson, Humean probabilities, likelihood ratio, Luke Barnes, mathematicians, metaphysics, monotheistic tradition, multiverse, Ned Hall, Nevin Climenhaga, personal beliefs, philosophers, philosophy, plausibility, podcasters, Presbyterians, priors, probability, psychological states, Robin Collins, Sean Carroll, spacetime, subjective inclinations, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism, theology, theoretical physicists, Thomas Bayes}

Framing a Finely Tuned Response to a Chorus of Critical “Carrollers”

_{Bruce Gordon
February 18, 2026

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics

10}

Using Sean Carroll’s criticisms of the fine-tuning argument as a general guide, I propose to address objections to that argument. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
February 13, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, atheists, background theory, Bayesian reasoning, constants, cosmologists, cosmology, E. F. Hutton, Eric Hedin, fine-tuning, fingerprints, Friedrich Schleiermacher, galaxies, God of the gaps, gravity, Hans Halvorson, human centrality, Leonard Susskind, Luke Barnes, multiverse, philosophy of science, physicist, quantum mechanics, scientific reasoning, Sean Carroll, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism, theists, Victor Stenger}

The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers

_{Bruce Gordon
February 13, 2026

Cosmology, Physics, Scientific Reasoning

19}

Carroll is a prolific physicist and cosmologist who has been a prominent popularizer of science. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
February 11, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, Bible, cosmologists, electromagnetic force, engineering, fine-tuning, gears, Genesis, gravitational force, Hugh Ross, intelligent design, life, logical necessity, mechanical watches, multiverse, natural agency, naturalism, parameters, physical parameters, probability, Psalmist, Psalms, religious faith, Sean Carroll, The Creator and the Cosmos, theism, theists, theology, time-keeping, universe, watchmaking, wheelbarrow, world view}

Wheelbarrows, Watches, and Designers: More on Sean Carroll

_{Eric Hedin
February 11, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

7}

Describing luxury mechanical watches as “marvels of engineering and design” is not a religiously motivated claim. Read More ›

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post

Author
Eric Hedin

Date
February 10, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, __trending, Alex O’Connor, atheists, cosmology, designer, earth, Earth-mass stars, elements, existence, experimental evidence, fine-tuning, intelligent life, laws of nature, life, low-mass stars, materialism, multicellular life, multiverse, natural processes, observational evidence, Sean Carroll, stars, sun, theoretical physicists, universes}

Why a Multiverse Doesn’t Refute Fine-Tuning

_{Eric Hedin
February 10, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

5}

With the multiverse hypothesis, a key supposition is that the physical parameters within alternative universes somehow vary over an undefined range. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
February 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, atoms, BIO-Complexity, civilization, computers, Darwinists, disorder, earth, encyclopedias, entropy, equations, evolution, information, intelligence, intelligent design, iPhones, machines, order, physics, probability, Science and Culture Today, Second Law of Thermodynamics, solar energy, sun, tautology, tornado}

A Friend Asks: For Darwin Skeptics, What Does the Second Law Argument Accomplish?

_{Granville Sewell
February 6, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

6}

The only law of science that the development of civilization on a barren planet could violate is the (generalized) second law of thermodynamics. Read More ›