Category: Intelligent Design

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 5, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, architecture, armadillos, arthropods, beauty, beehive, beeswax, biodiversity, biology, Biomimetics, butterfly wings, classification, compound eyes, Darwinism, design, engineering, evolution, False Messiah, function, functional needs, German Research Foundation, Gothic cathedrals, honeycomb, intelligent design, Jana Ciecierska-Holmes, Linnaean taxonomy, multifunctionality, Neil Thomas, phylogeny, PNAS Nexus, reptiles, scales, sunflowers, tessellated patterns, tessellation, tile shapes, tiles, tortoise shell}

Tiled Beauty: Functional Aesthetics in Biology

_{David Coppedge
December 5, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design

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Tessellated patterns are surprisingly prevalent in biology. Are these forms necessary for function, or mere consequences of natural laws? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 4, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Tagged
, ACLU, Discovery Science, egotism, Hollywood, intelligent design, John E. Jones III, judges, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Liquor Control Board, Pennsylvania, religion, showmen, Tom Hanks}

At Dover, the Comical Egotism of Judge Jones Had Serious Consequences

_{David Klinghoffer
December 4, 2025

Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence)

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The intrusion of ego in judicial proceedings, as in science and medicine, is not just inappropriate but a professional betrayal. Read More ›

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Date
December 4, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, books, Center for Science and Culture, Christmas, Christmas shopping, commercialization, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, gift ideas, holiday season, intelligent design, jokes, knowledge, scientific evidence, shipping, shopping cart, superabundance, tax, weather}

For Christmas, Share the Evidence of Nature’s Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
December 4, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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There’s still time to do your Christmas shopping early! Better still, if you shop for our books now, you’ll enjoy a 40 percent discount. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 4, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __featured2, Antarctica, Arctic, Aristotle, bacterial flagellum, bats, biology, biosphere, blood-clotting cascade, blubber, cetaceans, Chance and Necessity, CHNOPS, complementarity, Darwin's Black Box, duality, emergence, Erwin Schrödinger, feathers, function, Jaques Monod, language, marine iguanas, Mass, Michael Behe, penguins, physical reality, property, science of purpose, scientism, specified irreducible complexity, structure, structure-function relationship, subject-object metaphysical framework, telos, Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic Aristotelianism}

How Life Becomes Comprehensible: A New Scientific Framework

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 4, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design

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The duality of emergence and specified irreducible complexity must be discarded. In doing so, we create a framework compatible with Thomistic Aristotelianism. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 3, 2025

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, __featured1, Aaron Zimmer, cosmic fine-tuning, electrons, Elie Feder, fine-tuning, fundamental constants, gravitation, gravitational constant, gravity, ID the Future, intelligent design, John Archibald Wheeler, laws of nature, life, lottery, mathematical existence, Max Tegmark, meta-measure problem, nucleus, orbitals, physical existence, physics, Physics to God, Schrödinger’s equation, Simple Universe Premise, social security number, superintellect, Theory of Everything, Typical Universe Premise, universe}

Beyond Cosmic Fine-Tuning: Intelligent Design in the Laws of Nature

_{Brian Miller
December 3, 2025

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics

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There is only one way to explain why our universe is governed by such simple and elegant laws that support life. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 2, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, atoms, Brian Miller, cosmos, electromagnetism, Ellie Feder, fine-tuning, gravity, intelligent design, laws of nature, life, molecules, podcast, quantum mechanics, Schrödinger equation, stars, Theory of Everything, universe, weirdness}

Beyond Fine-Tuning: Why the Laws of Nature Indicate Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 2, 2025

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics

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The dream of finding a unique, logically necessary “theory of everything” has failed, which leaves an intriguing question: Why these specific laws? Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 2, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Science Education
Tagged
, ACLU, Antony Flew, attorneys, biology, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Christians, cricket (sport), Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Dover trial, education, evolution, George W. Bush, H. L. Mencken, Harrisburg, Henry Quastler, Hollywood, information, Inherit the Wind, intelligent design, John E. Jones III, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Michael Behe, natural processes, Pennsylvania, philosophy of science, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Pulitzer Prize, Robert Crowther, Scopes Monkey Trial, Spencer Tracy, Stephen Meyer, Summer for the Gods, theists, theology, William Paley, Williams Jennings Bryan}

Dover Days: A Fatuous Decision Is About to Turn 20 Years Old

_{Jonathan Witt
December 2, 2025

Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence), Science Education

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Judge Jones looked my way, and his expression seemed full of fellow feeling, as if to say, “Don’t sweat it. I’m all about free speech. I’ve got your back.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 1, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, biology, common descent, complexity, computers, convergence, Energy, engineering, evolution, function, gradual changes, Granville Sewell, ID the Future, innovations, intelligent design, internal combustion engine, jet airplanes, life, mathematicians, mathematics, modifications, natural selection, open system, order, organs, particles, podcast, simplicity, smartphones, software, steam engine, sun, systems, unintelligent processes}

A Mathematician’s Simple Yet Profound Arguments for Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 1, 2025

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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We might think that mathematicians are focused on incredibly complex ideas and equations, far above the everyday thoughts of the rest of us. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 1, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, anatomy, anger, auditory system, awareness, biochemistry, Biological Psychiatry, biology, botany, brain, central nervous system, Champalimaud Foundation, Darwinian evolution, design sense, Douglas Axe, engineering, environment, False Messiah, fear, Helene Langevin, holistic approach, homeostasis, hunger, insular cortex, intelligent design, interoception, joints, limbs, Lisbon, mice, microbiology, muscles, Neil Thomas, neurons, neuroscience, organs, parasites, physiology, PIEZO1, Piezo2, PLOS Biology, Portugal, proprioception, Scripps Research, somatosensory cortex, space, stress, Systems Biology, TIME, Trends in Neurosciences, Undeniable (book), Wen G. Chen, zoology}

Interoception: An Emerging Design Concept in Biology

_{David Coppedge
December 1, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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We’ve heard of proprioception, the awareness of our limbs in space and time, but interoception is a companion sense. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological complexity, Charles Murray, conversion, cosmos, Denyse O'Leary, evolution, faith and science, Fornace, Fornace School of Philosophy, Giuseppe Sermonti, intelligent design, interviews, Italy, life, matter, Michael Egnor, mind, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science and Culture Today, Scuola di Filosofia di Fornace, Stephen Meyer, Taking Religion Seriously, Thanksgiving, The Immortal Mind, The Miracle of Man}

Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are the Top 3 Reasons for Optimism on Intelligent Design in 2025

_{David Klinghoffer
November 27, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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One reason is the way any materialist explanation of cosmic origins keeps looking more and more implausible. See the new book by Charles Murray on that. Read More ›