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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 3, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, biophysics, Copernican principle, Guillermo Gonzalez, ID the Future, Jay Richards, podcast, scientific advance, The Privileged Planet}

Our Purposeless Planet? Jay Richards Tackles the Copernican Principle

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 3, 2024

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Not only is planet Earth well suited for advanced life like ourselves, it’s also finely tuned for scientific discovery. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
August 27, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Alaska, atmosphere, beauty, clouds, comets, earth, Isaac Newton, Jay Richards, Melissa Cain Travis, meteors, Museum of the Bible, nebulae, rainbows, scientific knowledge, solar system, spectroscopes, stars, telescopes, The Privileged Planet, total solar eclipses, water cycle}

Beauty and Our Privileged Planet

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
August 27, 2024

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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As Jay Richards and I argue in our book, nature seems designed in such a way that the most habitable places are the best places to do science. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 26, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Aristotle, Brian Keating, dysteleology, earth, Fox News, Guillermo Gonzalez, high school, humanity, Jay Richards, Luke Barnes, Nicolaus Copernicus, promotion, The Privileged Planet, Uncommon Knowledge, universe}

Jay Richards: Toppling a Myth of Human Insignificance

_{David Klinghoffer
August 26, 2024

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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It was 19th-century materialism that needed the so-called Copernican demotion, for ideological reasons, and the historians of the time obediently invented it. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 1, 2024

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, beauty, C.S. Lewis, cosmic comprehensibility, harmony, ID the Future, Johannes Kepler, Ken Boa, Melissa Cain Travis, scientific revolution, Thinking God’s Thoughts, truth}

Finding Beauty and Harmony in the Sciences

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 1, 2024

Astronomy, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Melissa Cain Travis expounds on what she calls the principle of cosmic comprehensibility, the idea that the universe is intelligible to us. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
July 26, 2024

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physics
Tagged
, amino acids, assemblages, assembly, atoms, BIO-Complexity, biosignatures, blueprint, CAD/CAM, cell death, complexity, crystals, fingers, Lee Cronin, Lego, Leslie Orgel, molecules, Nature (journal), peptide bond, Professor Dave, Santa Fe Institute, Sara Walker, The Origins of Life, theoretical biology}

Disassembling Lee Cronin’s Assembly Theory

_{William A. Dembski
July 26, 2024

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physics

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When I read the Assembly Theory literature and studied the details of the theory, I was frankly shocked to see how devoid it is of substance and insight. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 22, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, intelligent design, Johannes Kepler, Melissa Cain Travis, New Zealand, science and faith, theism, Thinking God’s Thoughts, universe}

Melissa Cain Travis Is in New Zealand — See Her in Tauranga This Weekend

_{David Klinghoffer
July 22, 2024

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

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Our colleague Dr. Melissa Cain Travis is among the most popular speakers on intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 16, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alister McGrath, Bertrand Russell, Cambridge University, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Cicero, intelligent design, John Ray, multiverse, natural theology, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Plato, Richard Dawkins, St. Augustine, universe, William Paley, Zeitgeist}

On Natural Theology and Natural Revelation

_{Neil Thomas
July 16, 2024

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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The nihilist sense of our having been involuntarily flung into the midst of some unchoreographed theatre of the absurd is swiftly offset, Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 28, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Big Bang, body plans, coordinated mutations, Fossil Friday (series), herpetology, lizards, population genetics, Singularity, snakes, Stony Brook University, unguided evolution, University of Michigan}

Fossil Friday: Snake Origins —Yet Another Biological Big Bang

_{Günter Bechly
June 28, 2024

Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The authors commented in the press releases that this burst of biological novelty suggests that “snakes are like the Big Bang ‘singularity’ in cosmology.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 22, 2024

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, Bijan Nemati, coronagraph, earth, Eric Anderson, exoplanets, Habitable Worlds Observatory, ID the Future, NASA, podcast, space dust}

What’s Next in the Search for Habitable Worlds?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 22, 2024

Astronomy, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics, Technology

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Are we common or rare? You can be on either side of the question and still be excited about the search for habitable planets capable of harboring life. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 23, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute Press, fiction, Guillermo Gonzalez, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, novels, podcast, Steven Spielberg, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, The Privileged Planet, young adults}

New Novel Invites Teens to Ponder our Privileged Planet

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 23, 2024

Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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There’s a wealth of books covering the arguments for intelligent design, and yet one type of book has so far been missing — a young adult novel. Read More ›