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Date
December 12, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, bias, Big Bang, Durham University, goal-directedness, Goldilocks, historians, multiverse, particles, Philip Goff, thought, universe}

Why the Multiverse Theory Can’t Explain Away Cosmic Fine-Tuning

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December 12, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Many thoughtful people in science today would see the goal of science as explaining away both goal-directedness and thought. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 10, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, afterlife, cosmos, deism, intelligent design, meaning, mind, obedience, Paul Davies, purpose, religious traditions, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, soul}

Deism and the Afterlife: Cosmologist Paul Davies Outlines His Views

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 10, 2024

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Paul Davies argues that we’re not at the center of the attention of a God who is specifically concerned with us. Read More ›

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Date
October 7, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, activists, atheism, Ball State University, Canceled Science, career, cosmos, earth, Eric Hedin, higher intelligence, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, laws of nature, life, physicists, professors}

Watch: Dr. Hedin’s Dangerous Question

_{Science and Culture
October 7, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Eric Hedin was enjoying a productive career as a professor at Ball State University when atheist activists tried to cancel him. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 30, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Tagged
, Antony Flew, anxiety, atheism, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, depression, Huffington Post, Professor Dave, religious believers, Richard Dawkins, Ross Andersen, Sam Harris, suicide, The Atlantic, There Is a God}

Not with a Bang: How the New Atheism Fizzled

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 30, 2024

Bioethics, Biology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning

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It didn’t help that Hitchens and Dennett are deceased. But what’s significant is that they were not replaced. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 23, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Alfred Lord Tennyson, aquarium, copper, corals, creator, earth, ecosystems, intelligent agents, intelligent design, iron, life, nickel, oceans, optimization, phytoplankton, seawater, trace elements, zinc}

Oceanic Design: The Fine-Tuned Balance of Trace Elements for Marine Life

_{Günter Bechly
September 23, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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This long-term cycling is again indicative of a system that was well designed for sustainability. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 18, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Ben Shapiro, Darwin's Doubt, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, James Tour, methodological naturalism, multiverse, Peter Robinson, podcast, Rice University, RNA world, Stephen Meyer, The Ben Shapiro Sunday Special, The Daily Wire, Uncommon Knowledge}

Stephen Meyer and Ben Shapiro on the Origin of Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 18, 2024

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

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Dr. Meyer explains how the OOL field reached an impasse by the 1980s as chemists learned just how thorny the origin of life problem really was. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
September 5, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, anthropic fine-tuning, creation, creator, entropy, fine structure constant, initial conditions, John Templeton Foundation, particle physics, Robin Collins, signal, The Privileged Planet, Yale University}

Robin Collins’s “Fine-Tuning for Discoverability” Argument

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
September 5, 2024

Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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In November 2000 we each presented at the “Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe” symposium at Yale University. Read More ›

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Date
August 30, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinian scientists, evolution, history of life, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, Life Sciences, natural selection, podcast, random variation, teleology, universe}

Alfred Wallace’s Views Hold Up Well Today — Unlike Those of His Friendly Rival Charles Darwin

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August 30, 2024

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Wallace’s stance is remarkable in foreshadowing modern intelligent design theory. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 22, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atheism, Brian Keating, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmologists, God Hypothesis, Jay Richards, Luke Barnes, materialism, materialists, multiverse, Peter Robinson, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, The Privileged Planet, Uncommon Knowledge, universe}

Jay Richards: The 1890s Were a Much Better Time to Be an Atheist

_{David Klinghoffer
August 22, 2024

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences

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Yes, ideas of a multiverse are taken “extremely seriously.” And those are obviously intended to counter the theistic implications of the familiar cosmology. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 21, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, cosmic fine-tuning, designing agent, Elie Feder, evolution, Evolution News, intelligent design, magical thinking, Mike Licona, podcast, The Design Inference, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

William Dembski: What’s the Best Evidence for Intelligent Design?

_{David Klinghoffer
August 21, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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What exactly is the very best evidence for a designing agent behind nature? There are a number of contenders and, interestingly, not all ID proponents agree. Read More ›