Category: Intelligent Design

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 9, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, animations, Bayesian reasoning, beauty, cabin, cosmos, errors, evidence, forest, genetic code, intelligent design, intentional design, logic of surprise, mathematics, matter, mind, order, Return of the God Hypothesis, software, The Story of Everything, universe, woods}

Using the Logic of Surprise to Infer Cosmic Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 9, 2026

Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

3}

On a hike, you stumble upon a seemingly abandoned cabin in the woods. When you walk in, you notice a steaming cup of tea sitting on the table. Read More ›

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Date
May 8, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, big screen, conversation, culture, faith and science, family, friends, intelligent design, media, Return of the God Hypothesis, social media, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, theaters}

Thank You from Meyer and Richards for All You’ve Done to Launch The Story of Everything

_{Science & Culture
May 8, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

2}

It’s a beautiful, thought-provoking experience that was made for the big screen. Consider posting about it on social media. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
May 8, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, archeology, arrow, bullseye, carbon-12 resonance, cosmology, creator, debates, explorer, fine-tuning, God Hypothesis, heliocentric model, Judeo-Christian tradition, jungle, Justin Brierley, natural philosophy, Occam’s razor, Phil Halper, physics, predictions, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Stone Age, Stonehenge, target, The Story of Everything, Thomas Kuhn}

Extraordinary: Stephen Meyer and Phil Halper Debate the God Hypothesis

_{Jonathan Witt
May 8, 2026

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics

6}

I could say more on the subject, but much of it is in this fantastic conversation — "the toughest debate I've ever had," as Halper graciously says at the end. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 8, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, forces, G. K. Chesterton, George Montañez, God Is Not Great, human existence, humans, Isaac Newton, J. P. Moreland, laws of nature, metanarrative, New Atheists, particles, Paul Davies, Peter Robinson, physics, Psalmist, scientific materialists, scientists, The God Delusion, The Story of Everything, truth, universe, Wall Street Journal}

The Story, and the Meaning, of Everything

_{Eric Hedin
May 8, 2026

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics

10}

The “nerve of the thing” — telling this story based on scientific evidence — would have barely raised an eyebrow among the founders of science. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 7, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __featured3, agnostics, americans, Big Bang, Big Bangs, Catholics, Christianity, Christians, creator, Deity, Discovery Institute, documentary, faith and science, fine-tuning, Gilead, history of science, intelligence, Israel, Jeremiah, Jewish Journal, Jews, media, monotheism, nature, physicists, Protestants, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientific discoveries, Seattle, Singularity, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, United States, universe, weekend}

The Science of Theism as a Healing Salve

_{David Klinghoffer
May 7, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

One reason I’m grateful for it is that the film makes a scientific case for theism of a kind that unites. It comes at an important moment for that. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 7, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, __featured1, aliens, astrophysicists, blueprint, cosmic design, cosmos, creation, disclosure, DNA, environment, evolution, extraterrestrials, fine-tuning, fire, fitness, Homo sapiens, humanoids, humans, intelligent design, jellyfish, life-forms, media, metallurgy, Michael Denton, nature, Neil deGrasse Tyson, New York Times, physiology, planets, predictions, privilege, reality, scientific atheists, technology, termites, The Miracle of Man, UFOs, universe, vertebrates}

What Would Aliens, if They Exist, Look Like? Like Us, or Like Jellyfish?

_{David Klinghoffer
May 7, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design, Planetology

4}

According to celebrity scientific atheist Neil deGrass Tyson, ETs would look nothing like us, because there is no reason they would. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 7, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __featured2, amino acids, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, Artem Novozhilov, codon mapping, codons, combinatorial space, conscious intent, Eugene Koonin, evolution, fine-tuning, frozen accident, genetic code, intelligent creator, intelligent design, natural selection, optimality, prebiotic selection, proteins, standard code, trial and error, tRNAs}

The Combinatorial Abyss: Why the Genetic Code Defies Chance

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 7, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

6}

It is highly improbable that the genetic code could have evolved by gradual trial and error. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 6, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animations, archival footage, atheism, Carl Sagan, debate, documentary, Lawrence Krauss, narrator, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, scholars, scientific atheists, scientists, smugness, sound, spokesmen, theism, video}

Meyer, Klavan: The Telltale “Element of Smugness” that’s a Giveaway for Scientific Atheists

_{David Klinghoffer
May 6, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

2}

I bet you could turn the sound off on a video of the well-known scientific atheists and they would be identifiable by the smugness that radiates from them. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, allele sharing, butterflies, Chetone moth, common ancestry, common design, convergent evolution, deduction, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary tree, explanatory power, genes, genetic switches, genetic traits, Heliconius numata, inference, intelligent agency, intelligent design, Lepidoptera, Life’s Solution, moths, mutations, natural selection, paradigm, PLOS Biology, Richard Dawkins, Science Daily, Simon Conway Morris, technology, The Blind Watchmaker}

Extraordinary Genetic Convergent Evolution in Moths and Butterflies

_{Casey Luskin
May 6, 2026

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

9}

The practice of re-usage of functional parts in different systems is “ubiquitous” in human-designed technology just as convergence is “ubiquitous” in biology. Read More ›

Sanger Sequencing. 3D illustration of a method of DNA sequencing.

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 6, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alternative reading frames, coding-sequence overlaps, codon-anticodon duplex formation, codons, constraints, DNA, fine-tuning, frameshifts, frozen accident, genetic code, Genome Research, hydrogen bond, hydrophobicity, mistranslation, nucleosomes, point mutations, protein sequences, purine, pyrimidines, random codes, RNA, specificity, splicing signals, translation, translation errors, tRNA, wobble position}

The Genetic Code: Two More Levels of Optimization

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 6, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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We have surveyed multiple levels at which the genetic code, far from a “frozen accident,” appears highly optimized across multiple independent constraints. Read More ›