Category: Historical Sciences

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
February 13, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __featured2, 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, theism, theists, Victor Stenger}

The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers

_{Bruce Gordon
February 13, 2026

Cosmology, Physics, Scientific Reasoning

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

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
February 13, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __featured1, ankles, biology, Boeing 747, brain, design framework, dexterity, engineers, evolutionary process, human body, human engineering, joint lubrication, knees, mathematics, mutations, Peter Sterling, prosthetic limbs, robotic limbs, robots, Simon Laughlin, Stuart Burgess, synovial fluid, technology, Ultimate Engineering, wiring}

Burgess: Design of Human Body Greatly Surpasses Human Engineering

_{Brian Miller
February 13, 2026

Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Embracing the evolutionary narrative requires one to abandon one’s belief in mathematics. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 12, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Caltech, carbon-silicon bonds, cells, cytochrome c, directed evolution, enzyme, Frances Arnold, Hendrik F. T. Klare, homochirality, Iceland, intelligent design, Martin Oestreich, materialists, microbes, molecules, natural, New Scientist, pharmaceuticals, polymers, rational thought, Science (journal), semiconductors, silicon, unnatural}

Clarity, Please: If Scientists Repurpose an Enzyme, Is It Intelligent Design?

_{David Coppedge
February 12, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Four Caltech scientists taught “nature” to do the “unnatural” by first isolating a microbe that lives in the hot springs of Iceland. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 11, 2026

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological complexity, designers, designs, engineering, engineers, evolution, evolutionary theory, human body, ID the Future, intelligent cause, intelligent design, mindless processes, naturalism, optimal engineering, podcast, researchers, scientific evidence, Stuart Burgess, trade-offs, Ultimate Engineering, University of Bristol}

Introducing Ultimate Engineering: A Conversation with Stuart Burgess

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 11, 2026

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

Evolutionary theory, unlike intelligent design, predicts a living world crowded with substandard designs. 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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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
February 10, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, 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
David Coppedge

Date
February 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, arthropods, body plans, British Columbia, Burgess Shale, Burgess Shale Type, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, Chengjiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, chordates, cnidarians, comb jellies, complex body plans, ctenophores, Darwin's Doubt, fossils, gills, guts, Han Zeng, Huayuan, Huayuan County, Huayuan site, James Woodford, jellyfish, Lagerstätte, lobopodians, magical thinking, Marble Canyon, molluscs, mutation/selection mechanism, Nature (journal), nerves, New Scientist, oxygen molecules, oxygen theory, poriferans, priapulids, Sinsk Event, soft tissues, transitional forms, worms}

Get to Know the Name: Huayuan Is a Major New Cambrian Fossil Site Found in China

_{David Coppedge
February 9, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

9}

Another Cambrian fossil site that rivals the original Burgess Shale has been announced to the world. 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 ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, citrate, Creation Myths, Daniel Stern Cardinale, Darwin Devolves, Discovery Institute, DNA, DNA replication, DNA replisome, Escherichia coli, evolution, generation turnover time, genome duplication, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, irreducibly complex systems, lizards, Michael Behe, multicellularity, mutation rates, mutations, natural selection, neutral mutations, Paramecium tetraurelia, placenta, population size, retrovirus, Richard Lenski, Rutgers University, Scott Minnich, tetherin, tetherin antagonism, type III secretion system, viruses, YouTube channels}

Irreducible Complexity: A Reply and Challenge to Daniel Stern Cardinale

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 6, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

14}

I invite Stern Cardinale to attempt to provide a plausible evolutionary explanation of the origins of a complex system such as DNA replication. Read More ›

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Date
February 5, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, bacteria, biosphere, chance, complexity, constraints, contingency, convergence, disparity, evolution, life forms, lineages, necessity, randomness, rules, Science Advances, singularities, Stephen Jay Gould, testing, theory testing}

Gould Said It Was All Contingency and Chance — Well, Maybe Not

_{Science and Culture
February 5, 2026

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

2}

Appeals to contingency (i.e., in-principle unrepeatable singularities) disable theory testing. If anything can happen…don’t bother to test, because you can’t. Read More ›