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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 14, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, adaptation, apocalypticism, book reviews, bottleneck, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, evolutionary biologist, Herbert Spencer, human extinction, MIT, persecution, revolutionary science, University of Melbourne, University of Toronto}

When Darwinism Becomes a Fashionable Doomsday Cult

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 14, 2024

Environment & Climate, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

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Like all cults, it can make otherwise intelligent people begin to sound rather strange, even precarious. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 3, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, California, Cambridge University Press, conservation, design filter, endangered species, Kenneth Miller, Michael Shellenberger, nature, Nature (journal), Patrick Brown, politically incorrect, scientific materialism, self-censorship, specification, The Design Inference, wildfires, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

“Move Along, Nothing to See Here”: What Happens When You Challenge a Dominant Narrative

_{Jonathan Witt
June 3, 2024

Environment & Climate, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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William Dembski no longer has to be coy about the challenge his design filter poses for modern evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 12, 2024

Categories
Astronomy
Evolutionary Psychology
Faith & Science
Geophysics
Intelligent Design
Rare Earth
Tagged
, Africa, ancestors, Ann Gauger, atmosphere, aurora, aurora borealis, beauty, Brian Miller, carbon, earth, electrons, Emily Sandico, evolutionary biology, geophysics, helium, hydrogen, iPhone, iron, Joe Biden, Judeo-Christian tradition, junk DNA, magnesium, magnetic field, magnetosphere, materialists, nitrogen, northern lights, oxygen, paleomagnetism, PhD, radiation, Seattle, solar system, South Africa, vortex, Wikipedia}

In Aurora Borealis, Scientific and Aesthetic Design Arguments Meet

_{Casey Luskin
May 12, 2024

Astronomy, Evolutionary Psychology, Faith & Science, Geophysics, Intelligent Design, Rare Earth

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You appreciate the aurora borealis or aurora australis because you were not created by strictly material evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Environment & Climate
Fine-tuning
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animals, autotrophs, complexity, dignity, evolution, house plants, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, light, mainstream media, New York Times, peas, personhood, Swiss Constitution, The Atlantic, Venus flytrap, wildflowers, Zoë Schlanger}

Again with the “Plants Are Intelligent” Nonsense

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 9, 2024

Bioethics, Botany, Environment & Climate, Fine-tuning, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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We all know that plants respond to stimuli, such as flowers opening with the sun or growing toward light. Read More ›

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Author
Jean-Pierre Luminet

Date
April 24, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Alexander Friedmann, Big Bang, Cold War, Edwin Hubble, galaxies, George Gamow, Georges Lemaître, Henri Poincaré, Hubble-Lemaître Law, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Ralph Alpher, redshift, Robert Herman, Vesto Slipher}

The True Fathers of the Big Bang

_{Jean-Pierre Luminet
April 24, 2024

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Planetology

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The purpose of this book is not to exhaustively survey the history of cosmology through the centuries. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 20, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Geology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Physics
Rare Earth
Technology
Tagged
, agriculture, Andrew McDiarmid, Brian Miller, cooking, earth, Earth’s surface, evidence, fire, food, foresight, gold, hunting, ID the Future, intelligent design, iron, likelihood ratio, physicists, plate tectonics, soil, technological advancement, universe, water cycle}

How Earth is Designed for Human Technology

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 20, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Physics, Rare Earth, Technology

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Is all this a coincidence? We think that’s a stretch. One or two fortunate parameters might be called a fluke. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
April 9, 2024

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Planetology
Tagged
, atmosphere, books, dark matter, dust, electric fields, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic waves, Energy, gravitational waves, immaterial mind, intelligent agency, intelligent design, magnetic fields, mind, painting, physical universe, spirit, Stephen Meyer, universe}

Intelligent Design Beyond Physics — How Would a Designer Interact with the Universe?

_{Eric Hedin
April 9, 2024

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics, Planetology

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If our minds are “other” than the matter composing our brains, then there must be a means by which the immaterial mind can affect our brains. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
March 27, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, data, eclipse, experiments, magnetometer, phone apps, phyphox, scientific papers, solar eclipse, totality}

A Crowd-Sourced Solar Eclipse Experiment

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
March 27, 2024

Environment & Climate, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The Sensor Logger phone app can record and store the readings from any combination of your phone’s sensors. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 26, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, astrobiologists, astrobiology, atmosphere, biosphere, complex specified information, evolutionists, Gaia, humans, information, information processing, intelligent design, life, plate tectonics, PLOS Biology, probabilities, prokaryotes, Universe Today, University of Edinburgh, volcanoes, water}

Astrobiologists Offer an “Information-Based View of the Biosphere”

_{David Coppedge
March 26, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Planetology

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Even if their estimates need to be revised by a terabase or two someday, they have made it clear that our biosphere is awash in information. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 3, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstraction, animals, archaeologists, capuchin monkeys, chimpanzees, crows, debris, dolphins, hands, Harvard University, life forms, Michael Haslam, monkeys, octopuses, Oxford University, sea urchins, tools}

War on Human Exceptionalism Turns to Tool Use

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 3, 2024

Environment & Climate, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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As the academic war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out — and they don’t even notice. Read More ›