Category: Fine-tuning

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 11, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __recommended, A Little Book of Coincidence in the Solar System, amplitude, asteroids, coincidences, comets, earth, ellipse, fine-tuning, geocentric model, geometric patterns, Golden Ratio, Guillermo Gonzalez, heliocentric model, inferior conjunction, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Jay Richards, John Martineau, kinetic energy, Mars, Mercury, moons, NASA, Newton’s laws, orbital paths, physics, planets, quantum effects, semimajor axes, solar system, sun, The Privileged Planet, trigonometry, Venus}

Geometric Design in the Solar System

_{Eric Hedin
August 11, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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My favorite example of such geometric design arises from the mean orbits of our innermost two planets, Mercury and Venus. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemists, Children of Light, circulation, coincidences, doctors, electromagnetic radiation, fine-tuning, Fire-Maker, gamma rays, hydrologic cycle, light, metabolism, Michael Denton, photosynthesis, plate tectonics, radio waves, Sarah Chaffee, sun, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, The Wonder of Water, universe, water, wavelength}

We Are Children of Light and Water: Dr. Michael Denton

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 10, 2025

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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“In this vast range, there’s only one…infinitesimally small band which has the right energy for photosynthesis,” a prerequisite for human life. Coincidence? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 27, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, Battle of the Big Bang, Big Bang, black hole, conundrums, designed universe, Elie Feder, mind, multiverse, Niayesh Afshordi, Paul Sutter, Phil Halper, physicists, physics, quantum particles, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Singularity, Stony Brook University, string theory, uncertainty, universe}

The Very “Nature of the Universe” Puzzles Physicists

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 27, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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The more physicists know about the universe, the larger loom some questions about ultimate realities. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 28, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, atoms, Big Bang, blackbody spectrum, consciousness, Ethan Siegel, fine-tuning, gravitation, helium, hydrogen, intelligent design, intelligent life, life, materialists, microwave background radiation, miracle, naturalism, neutrons, nuclear fusion, physics, protons, re-ionization, universe}

A “Quantum Miracle” that Leads to Life

_{Eric Hedin
May 28, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics

5}

To eventually form stars, planets, and life, neutral atoms are a definite prerequisite. Read More ›

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Author
Aaron Zimmer

Date
May 8, 2025

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, atoms, electron, fine-tuning, galaxies, intelligent cause, intelligent observer, life, molecules, multiverse, natural constants, planets, scientists, stars, universe}

The Purpose of Cosmic Fine-Tuning

_{Aaron Zimmer
May 8, 2025

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics

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True, without fine-tuning there would be no life, but that’s only because life depends on everything else, like atoms and stars. Read More ›

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Date
May 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brian DeVries, Center for Science and Culture, Chicago Assemblies of God Church, creator, events, evolution, humans, Illinois, intelligent design, Mt. Prospect, nature, Open Door Ministry Presbyterian Church, Paul Nelson, registration, Scripture}

Event, May 13: The Heavens Declare

_{Science and Culture
May 5, 2025

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Paul Nelson and Brian DeVries will give special attention to how humans are able to detect design in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Elie Feder

Date
April 24, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cosmological constant, cosmologists, cosmology, fine-tuning, fluctuations, intelligent cause, laws of nature, Lucretius, Ludwig Boltzmann, Marvel Cinematic Universe, measure problem, multiverse, parallel universes, philosophers, physical constants, physicists, thermal equilibrium}

Is the Multiverse Real?

_{Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
April 24, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

2}

Despite its various iterations, few philosophers or scientists had taken the multiverse seriously — until 1998. Read More ›

Larry Sanger at Discovery Institute's 2024 COSM Technology Summit

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 22, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, agnosticism, Andrew McDiarmid, apologetics, Christianity, clergy, courage, editors, faith, ID the Future, Larry Sanger, Nathan Jacobson, neutrality, online encyclopedias, podcast, religion, Stephen Meyer, Wikipedia, William A. Dembski}

Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger on Intelligent Design and His Conversion to Christianity

_{David Klinghoffer
April 22, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Sanger was content with his agnosticism until a student posed a question about the fine-tuning of the universe and whether it pointed to a mind behind nature. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 18, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, beginning, Big Bang, Brian Miller, cosmology, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, Joe Rogan, Lawrence Krauss, materialistic philosophy, physicists, physics, podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science Uprising, South Australia, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, universe}

Why the “Universe from Nothing” Model Points to Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 18, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

3}

Did our universe come from nothing, as some physicists have proposed? This episode is built around a suggestion I recently received from a listener. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 8, 2025

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences}

Intelligent Design: A Beginner’s Guide with Casey Luskin

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 8, 2025

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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How would you explain intelligent design to someone who has just recently begun looking into it? Perhaps you are new to it yourself. Read More ›