Category: Physical Sciences | Page 74 | Science and Culture Today

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Date
November 4, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Aleksandr Oparin, Ann Gauger, Charles Thaxton, coacervates, Darwinian theory, Encyclopedia Britannica, evolution, Frankenstein, Geppetto, Illustra Media, intelligent design, Marxists, Nature (journal), Nature Communications, Penn State, Pinocchio, replication, RNA, RNA world, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, University of Basel, University of Chicago}

Sorry, Origin-of-Life Researchers, But Bubbles Are Not Cells

_{Science & Culture
November 4, 2020

Chemistry, Evolution, Origin of Life

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Oparin is back. Some origin-of-life researchers are using his coacervate theory without giving him credit or realizing they are retreading dead-end ideas. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
October 28, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, A Brief History of Time, Apple iPhones, Big Bang, children, computers, consciousness, designer, earth, Energy, evolution, fire, Fire-Maker, First Cause, intelligent design, materialists, matter, metals, Michael Denton, multiverse, Paul Davies, physical laws, Robin Collins, science fiction, Science Uprising, scientific discovery, self-replicating machine, Stephen Hawking, water, Why Evolution Is Different}

Top Six Evidences for Intelligent Design

_{Granville Sewell
October 28, 2020

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology

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Here is a modest attempt to summarize the main scientific evidences for design in our world, for those who have been told that such evidence does not exist. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 28, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atoms, Big Bang, biological information, Cambrian Explosion, creation, Daniel Reeves, Darwin's Doubt, David Berlinski, DNA, elements, Eric Anderson, evolutionary theory, evolutionists, fitness, Harvard University, intelligent design, Michael Denton, Paris, Periodic Table, Privileged Species, Signature in the Cell, textbooks, The Fitness of the Environment, The Miracle of the Cell, webinar, Zoom}

Message in Matter: Intelligent Design in the Atoms

_{David Klinghoffer
October 28, 2020

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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What atheists and materialists can’t explain is why this fitness is so special, so unforgivingly precise and intricate, at every stage on the journey to us. Read More ›

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Date
October 28, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP synthase, cellular functions, chemical bonds, enzymes, Eric Anderson, Goldilocks Zone, ID the Future, Michael Denton}

Finely Tuned Chemistry and ATP Synthase

_{Science & Culture
October 28, 2020

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Cellular life would be impossible if strong bonds weren’t just so for some cellular functions, and if weak bonds weren’t just so for others. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 27, 2020

Categories
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Against the Tide, Albert Einstein, atheism, Cambridge University, Carl Sagan, Cornell University, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, debates, Evolution News, experts, faith, German, Harvard University, john lennox, Martin Rees, mathematician, Oxford University, prestige, Richard Dawkins, science, scientists, Yale University}

Against the Tide: When Scientists Stray from Science

_{David Klinghoffer
October 27, 2020

Philosophy, Physical Sciences

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Lennox: "Stephen Hawking was a brilliant mathematician and a genius. But he had no idea about philosophy." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 26, 2020

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, censors, censorship, creator, Darwinists, Douglas Axe, intelligent design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Michael Denton, molecular machines, Ola Hössjer, reputation, Return of the God Hypothesis, specified complexity, Steinar Thorvaldsen, Stephen Meyer, The Miracle of the Cell, water, William A. Dembski}

Is Fine-Tuning “More Extreme” in Biology or Cosmology?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 26, 2020

Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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As authors Thorvaldsen and Hössjer say, “Biology is inherently more complicated than the large-scale universe and so fine-tuning is even more a feature.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 22, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atheism, biophysicists, Cornelius Hunter, determinism, free will, Jerry Coyne, Sabine Hossenfelder, scientism}

Science as Oracle — “Where It Gets Weird”

_{David Klinghoffer
October 22, 2020

Physical Sciences

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The ancients had their oracles, people claiming to speak in the name of the gods — this, by divination. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
October 22, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Big Bang, brains, David Hume, determinism, evolution, free will, humans, illusion, knowledge, laws of nature, miracles, particles, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Sabine Hossenfelder, St. Paul, theoretical physics, truth}

Determinism: Smart People and an Absurd Claim

_{Cornelius Hunter
October 22, 2020

Physical Sciences

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Why should Sabine Hossenfelder think for a moment that anything that occurs to her has any correspondence to truth? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 21, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Fine-tuning
History of Science
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, civility, disagreement, evolution, ID the Future, ideology, intelligent design, Michael Flannery, Michael Keas, natural selection}

Disagreeing Agreeably — A Timely Lesson from Darwin and Wallace

_{David Klinghoffer
October 21, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution, Fine-tuning, History of Science, Human Exceptionalism

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Adults across the board engage in public fights where the personal destruction of ideological enemies is always a ready weapon. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 21, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, abstract thought, brain states, Brian Miller, determinism, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, free will, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Journal of Theoretical Biology, materialism, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, Sabine Hossenfelder, Stephen Meyer, thought, Wilder Penfield, will}

Fine-Tuning, Free Will — Now We’ve Got Two Challenges for Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder

_{David Klinghoffer
October 21, 2020

Fine-tuning, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

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She acknowledges that she is speaking from outside one relevant field. Can you really use physics to deny free will while ignoring neuroscience? Read More ›