The Latest

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
March 11, 2026

Categories
History of Science
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, aether, air, Aristotle, Bible, Center for Science and Culture, change, circular movement, cosmologists, creation, dark energy, dark matter, destruction, earth, elements, ethers, fire, galaxies, heavens, heavy elements, immutability, light elements, linear movement, modern science, natural forces, night, outer space, pace, physics, rotation, smoke, speed, stars, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, water, Winston Ewert}

Are the Heavens Immutable? An Ancient Scientific Question

_{Winston Ewert
March 11, 2026

History of Science, Philosophy, Physics

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Modern theories postulate entities to account for differences between what we would expect from physics and our observations of distant space. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 10, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, ancient philosophies, Center for Science and Culture, Christian thinkers, Christianity, data, discovery, early church, Epicureanism, faith, faith and science, history of science, ID the Future, intelligent design, modern science, philosophy, reason, science, scientific debates, scientific revolution, software engineers, technology, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge}

Science Before the Scientific Revolution: What Can We Learn from It?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 10, 2026

Faith & Science, History of Science, Philosophy

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Ancient and medieval thinkers possessed impressive reasoning powers despite lacking modern technology and data. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 10, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, birth, brain, conception, Elliott Sober, epigenetic inheritance, evolution, Evolution of the Brain, evolutionary theory, fetus, individuality, intelligent design, John C. Eccles, Karl Popper, lottery, Mehmet Elgin, mind, natural selection, neuroscience, purpose, purposeful nature, recant, recantation, spiritual creation, testability, The Self and Its Brain, theology, uniqueness}

Popper and Purposeful Nature: A Note on the So-Called “Recantation”

_{Michael Flannery
March 10, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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A correspondent raises this famous statement of Karl Popper on natural selection, with his “historically loaded word ‘recant.’” Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
March 10, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animal embryos, Cambrian fossils, coelacanth, common ancestor, common ancestry, common characters, common descent, convergent evolution, Darwin's Finches, embryonic stage, environmental pressures, Ernst Haeckel, evolutionary predictions, Galápagos finches, geological time, ginkgo trees, horseshoe crabs, hummingbirds, Linnaeus, living fossils, Max Telford, molecular clock, morphology, Nautilus, nightjars, penguins, South Africa, stasis, swallows, swifts, The Tree of Life, The Tree of Life (book), Tree of Life, tuatara, University College London, Wollemi pine}

In Stories from Max Telford’s New Book, Failed Predictions of Common Descent

_{Emily Reeves
March 10, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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Well-documented examples of organisms show remarkable stasis over hundreds of millions of years. Read More ›

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Author
Stuart Burgess

Date
March 9, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, art, Claude Debussy, cooking, dexterity, evolutionary process, evolutionary theory, exoskeleton, fingers, fitness, Formula 1 race car, go-kart, hand muscles, human brain, Menahem Pressler, motor cortex, motor units, muscle units, muscles, music, nerve pathways, prosthetic device, skillful moving, surgery, survival, technology, tool-making, touch, typing, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}

Fingers Are Fine-Tuned Far Beyond the Need for Survival

_{Stuart Burgess
March 9, 2026

Anatomy, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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Our exoskeleton could only make simple hand grips, far short of what a healthy human hand could manage. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
March 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __featured3, amino acid, Barbie, beauty, Carl Linnaeus, Carol Kaesuk Yoon, classification, coelacanth, CRISPR, Dogs, evolutionary biology, genealogical ancestry, genes, genetics, goldfish, kangaroos, koalas, marsupial, Matchbox cars, Max Telford, nucleotides, phylogenetics, quolls, Tasmanian wolf, taxonomy, The Tree of Life (book), thylacine, Tim Ingold, Tindell Hopwood, trading cards, University College London}

On Tree of Life, Max Telford Misses the Design Possibility

_{Emily Reeves
March 9, 2026

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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I’ll be reviewing the book topically, beginning with the beauty and importance of classification and ending with the implications of belief in the tree of life. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
March 9, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __featured1, Algernon Sidney, Apostle Paul, Aristotle, Bible, C. S. Lewis, Christianity, Cicero, College of Philadelphia, conscience, Declaration of Independence, Founders, George Washington, gravity, James Wilson, John Adams, John Calvin, John Locke, Martin Luther, Mere Christianity, Moral Law, Nature, reason, Richard Hooker, Romans, Supreme Court, Ten Commandments, The Abolition of Man, theology, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Jefferson, Two Treatises of Government, U.S. Constitution}

The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God

_{John G. West
March 9, 2026

Ethics, Faith & Science

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The “Laws of Nature” are those truths about reality that all well-formed human beings have access to through observation, reason, and conscience. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 8, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Apostle Paul, Chris Stirewalt, Christianity, Conan O’Brien, conservatives, Dilbert, El Rushbo, humor, Jesus Christ, lung cancer, NewsNation, Not Dead Yet, pancreatic cancer, Peter Robinson, Scott Adams, Uncommon Knowledge}

In Sickness, These Are Profiles in Courage

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 8, 2026

Bioethics, Faith & Science

4}

As I am sure readers know, Ben Sasse is dying from pancreatic cancer. But that doesn’t mean he is through. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
March 6, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, aerobic lifestyle, Alphaproteobacteria, Arctic Ocean, Asgard, Asgard archaea, cell division, cells, cytokinesis, electron transport chain complex, ESCRT-III division, eukaryotes, eukaryotic signature proteins, FtsZ proteins, hydrogenases, hydrothermal vent, Loki’s Castle, Lokiarchaeota, mitochondria, mitosis, Nature (journal), Norse deities, Odinarcheota, polymerization, synthesis, Thorarchaeota}

Do the Asgard Archaea Hold the Keys to Eukaryotic Origins?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
March 6, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In 2015, a new superphylum of archaea was reported, having been discovered through metagenomic sequences of sediments. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
March 5, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, Albuquerque, algorithms, alternative splicing, amino acid sequences, Andrew McDiarmid, Brian Josephson, Cambrian Explosion, Cambridge University, Center for Science and Culture, David Waltham, digital information, discoveries, earth, Earth-like planets, enzymes, fundamental constants, genes, ID the Future, information processing, initial conditions, junk DNA, life, Lucky Planet, Michael Kent, molecular biology, molecular machines, mutation, natural selection, physics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sandia National Laboratories, spliceosome, Stephen Meyer, universe, Why Evolution Is Different}

Stay Informed about the Evidence for Design, with Michael Kent

_{Granville Sewell
March 5, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design, Planetology

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Technological advances have led to the discovery of planets outside our solar system, with news heralding the discovery of many “earth-like” planets. Read More ›