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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 28, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, cosmic fine-tuning, first cell, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, materialism, Michael Denton, natural laws, planetary fine-tuning, primal blueprint, teleology, The Miracle of the Cell}

Denton “Takes the Fine-Tuning Argument to a Whole New Level”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 28, 2020

Biochemistry, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Given a "primal blueprint" that preceded the first life, the solution can only be intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 27, 2020

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, constraints, first cell, genius, information, intelligent design, life, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Denton, purpose, The Miracle of the Cell}

Eberlin: “Michael Denton Has Again Sent the Opponents of Cosmic Purpose Scurrying”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 27, 2020

Biology, Chemistry, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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"Here we are confronted with definitive findings in favor of a powerful genius who foresaw and precisely orchestrated chemistry as a whole for life." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 24, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, intelligent design, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, nature, purpose, The Miracle of the Cell, universe}

Behe on Denton’s Latest: “The Universe Miraculously Got [It] Right”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 24, 2020

Chemistry, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics, Technology

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"Michael Denton is the world’s most profound thinker about the physical and chemical requirements for the existence of a humanoid species like ourselves." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 22, 2020

Categories
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, academia, African Savannah, atoms, bacteria, Big Bang, cheetahs, chemical elements, cynicism, Discovery Institute, elements, hydrogen, intelligent design, King’s College London, media, Michael Denton, miracle, neutrophils, nitrogen, oxygen, Periodic Table, primal blueprint, relationships, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Miracle of the Cell, Vanderbilt University, water, white blood cells}

New Book by Biologist Michael Denton on Nature’s Miraculous “Primal Blueprint”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 22, 2020

Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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To see cells in action, he notes a remarkable video, “Neutrophil Chasing Bacteria,” made in 1950s by a researcher at Vanderbilt University. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 18, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Christianity, COVID-19, Discovery Institute, human beings, James Tour, life, pandemic, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rice University, scientists, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin}

Tour, Meyer: The Mystery of Life Itself

_{David Klinghoffer
August 18, 2020

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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As Stephen Meyer puts it here, “When life leaves, we don’t exactly know what’s left, but we know something left and it’s not just the physical.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 17, 2020

Categories
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, batteries, carbon-based life, Charles Darwin, fire, Fire-Maker series, fire-making, fitness of nature, Freeman Dyson, intelligent beings, intelligent design, Kepler, magnets, Zeitgeist}

Whatever the Cause, We Are No Accident

_{Michael Denton
August 17, 2020

Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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The unique fitness of nature for carbon-based life and intelligent beings of our biology is an empirical discovery. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 12, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, Adam Shapiro, American Scientist, Centers for Disease Control, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinism, intelligent design, National Institutes of Health, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, specified complexity, viruses, WHO}

What Intelligent Design Research on COVID-19 Would Look Like

_{Michael Egnor
August 12, 2020

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Is there evidence for intelligent human agency in COVID-19, given its structure and what is known about its emergence? Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 14, 2020

Categories
Epistemology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bayes’ Theorem, Big Bang, biological design, cosmic fine-tuning, evidence, helium, hydrogen, intelligent design, life, likelihood, Luke Barnes, Lydia McGrew, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Bayes, William A. Dembski, William Lane Craig}

A Bayesian Approach to Intelligent Design

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 14, 2020

Epistemology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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I have come to think of evidence in Bayesian terms and this has in turn impacted the way I think about the biological arguments for ID. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 20, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, agnosticism, Charles Thaxton, Christianity, En Arche Foundation, English, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, intelligent design, Michael Denton, Polish, skepticism, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, theism, theology}

Michael Denton and Intelligent Design’s Big Tent

_{David Klinghoffer
January 20, 2020

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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People who cannot agree on the details of a single theology, or any theology at all, do agree that nature gives an “overwhelming impression” (in Denton’s words) of design. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
January 16, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Africa, Biomimetics, earth, explanatory filter, Gabon, geologists, geysers, intelligent design, No Free Lunch, oxygen, physicists, solar system, specified complexity, universal probability bound, William A. Dembski}

Natural and Artificial Nuclear Reactors: Evidence of Purpose in Energy Production?

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
January 16, 2020

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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In 1972 French physicists discovered that natural nuclear fission reactors were in operation about two billion years ago in Oklo, Gabon in Africa. Read More ›