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March 18, 2026

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Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Physics
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, biology, chemistry, comets, documentaries, Eric Esau, evidence, faith and science, fine-tuning, Fred Hoyle, galaxy, Goldilocks, Isaac Newton, movies, New York Times, Oxford University, physical laws, physical parameters, physics, planets, Return of the God Hypothesis, simulation theory, Stephen Meyer, sun, The Story of Everything, tickets, Timothy McGrew, Tulane University, UC San Diego, universe, University of Pittsburgh}

A Goldilocks Universe, Designed for Us: New Film in Theaters on April 30

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March 18, 2026

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Physics

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As philosopher Timothy McGrew puts it, we live in a universe “bearing everywhere the fingerprints of its Creator.” Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
March 18, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Physics
Tagged
, abiogenesis, agnostics, atheists, biologists, careers, complexity, Curtis Hrischuk, Darwinian evolution, Emily Reeves, endowed by our creator, equilibrium, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary jargon, Gregory Reeves, human engineers, information, John West, living things, Michael Egnor, narrative gloss, natural selection, nature, neurosurgeon, organisms, Philip Skell, physics, Science and Culture Today, Stuart Burgess, transcendent intelligent source}

Evolution: What Is in a Word? (Hint: Not Much)

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March 18, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Physics

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Since the entire non-living universe contains far less information content than a single living cell, life presents an enigma to materialism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 17, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, ancestors, blackmail, Death with Dignity, flourishing, forests, groves, Harvard Law School, human thriving, humans, indigenous people, irrationality, lawfare, life cycles, Moon, mysticism, nature, nature rights, neo-paganism, nutrients, oceans, Peruvian bees, property, rivers, soil, students, temperature, toolkit, tree rights, universities, University of Sussex, water, woodlands}

In Latest Statement from a University, Tree Rights Advocacy Is Based on Irrationality

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 17, 2026

Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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We protect trees and woodlands with laws and regulations without resorting to irrational ideological justifications and materially impeding human thriving. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
March 17, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, assumptions, background information, Bayes factor, Bayes’s theorem, Bayesian confirmation theory, Bayesian reasoning, Clark Glymour, confidence, denominators, Dutch book argument, epistemic probabilities, evidence, fine-tuning, fine-tuning argument, general relativity, General Theory of Relativity, hypothesis, likelihood, likelihood ratio, marginal probability, mental state, Mercury, naturalism, Nevin Climenhaga, normalization factor, panpsychism, pantheism, posterior probability, prior probability, probabilities, psychological states, Sean Carroll, subjectivism, subjectivist Bayesianism, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism, universe}

Bayesian Methodology and the Fine-Tuning Argument

_{Bruce Gordon
March 17, 2026

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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To use Clark Glymour’s example, Einstein's general theory of relativity explained the anomalous precession of Mercury's perihelion. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 16, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, amplitude, Andrew Schultz, Asian elephants, biology, cats, curb feelers, engineering, finite element analysis, frequency, interoception, Katherine Kuchenbecker, Marc S. Lavine, material intelligence, materials, Max Planck Institute, mechanosensors, medical devices, Merkel cells, neuroscience, peanut, potato chip, power, rat whiskers, rats, rodents, Science (journal), sensory neurons, stiffness gradient, vibrotactile signals, whisker breakage, whisker hairs}

Research Reveals Elephant’s Amazing Sense of Touch

_{David Coppedge
March 16, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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Elephants can turn over a jeep and pull down a tree, but they can also pick up a potato chip without breaking it. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Against the Professors, Albert Einstein, ancient Greece, aphasia, arithmeticians, Arthur Eddington, Arthur Koestler, astrologers, ataraxia, Carlo Rovelli, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Chrysippus, Das Wesen des Christentums, David Hume, epistemology, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Friedrich Nietzsche, geometers, grammarians, J. B. Bury, J. B. S. Haldane, James Moore, Jerry Coyne, John Dewey, Ludwig Feuerbach, Marcus du Sautoy, Max Planck, musicians, natural preservation, natural selection, Neal Gillespie, New Atheists, Newtonian mechanics, Niels Bohr, Origin of Species, philosophy, Pierre Bayle, Pons Malleus, Pyrrho, revisions, rhetors, Sanford G. Etheridge, Sextus Empiricus, Sir Charles Lyell, Steve Taylor, The Descent of Man, Werner Heisenberg, Why Evolution Is True, William James, William Shakespeare}

Darwin’s Doubts, and Their Philosophical Implications

_{Neil Thomas
March 16, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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Charles Darwin thus appears to us more modern than his present-day disciples, whose unbending materialism comes closer to that of Erasmus Darwin. Read More ›

Statue of Charles Darwin in Shrewsbury UK

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Author
John G. West

Date
March 16, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Kinsey, Christopher Ryan, conscience, cultural anarchy, Darwinian biology, Darwinism, Declaration of Independence, endowed by our creator, ethics, family life, Founders, Friedrich Nietzsche, human sexuality, libertinism, liberty, Moral Law, morality, natural selection, New York Times, reason, relativism, revelation, Robert Wright, Sex at Dawn, sexual morality, United States, world view}

Darwinism’s Attack on the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God

_{John G. West
March 16, 2026

Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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Needless to say, this new view of morality is toxic to the Founders’ understanding of liberty. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
March 13, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Archbishop Józef Mirosław Życiński, Bible, biological origins, Brown University, C. Everett Koop, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Catholic intellectuals, Darwinism, Edward Peltzer, Ernan McMullin, evolution, Fr. Martin Hilbert, Fr. Michael Chaberek, Fr. Richard Pendergast, Francis Schaeffer, Genesis, intelligent design, James Tour, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Kurt Wise, Lumen Christi Institute, macroevolution, microevolution, Protestant circles, Protestants, Roe v. Wade, Roman Catholicism, Steve Greene, The Design Inference, University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame, Young Earth Creationists}

Why Roman Catholicism Needs Intelligent Design

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March 13, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Through high school and most of junior high, I attended Roman Catholic schools. I liked the discipline. I learned to buckle down on my studies. Read More ›

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Date
March 13, 2026

Categories
Arts
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Allan Sandage, bad dream, Big Bang, Brian Josephson, chance, Charles Murray, Christianity, designer, Eric Esau, faith, Georges Lemaître, God and the Astronomers, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Larry Sanger, Lawrence Krauss, material reality, New York Times, physical laws, priests, reason, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Robert Jastrow, scientific revolution, scientists, Stephen Meyer, stories, supernatural, The Story of Everything, theologians, theoretical physicists, unintelligent forces, universe, Wikipedia}

Tickets Available Now: New Film Tells of Cosmic Beginning and the God Hypothesis

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March 13, 2026

Arts, Cosmology, Faith & Science

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In a beautiful, exciting, deeply informed film, scientists and scholars explain why the story of meaning and purpose in a created universe has been vindicated. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 13, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, clergymen, conversation, Creation or Evolution?, evolution, faith and reason, faith and science, faith community, Fr. Michael Chaberek, implications, intelligent design, laymen, Neo-Darwinism, pastors, philosophy, priests, rabbis, reason, Reasonably Rational, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholics, science, Steve Greene, synthesis, theology}

Watch: Catholics in Conversation on Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
March 13, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Fr. Michael is doing what many a member of a faith community probably wishes his own clergyman could do, given the importance of the subject. Read More ›