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Surreal landscape with a split road and signpost arrows showing two different courses, left and right direction to choose. Road splits in distinct direction ways. Difficult decision, choice concept.

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, Charles Darwin, Claude Shannon, communication theory, contraction, decisions, diminution, earth, etymology, evolution, formal causation, Greek, Indo-European, information, intellect, intelligence, intelligence metrics, intelligent design, Latin, logos, marriage, natural selection, New Testament, possibilities, Robert Stalnaker, select, selection, Texas, United States}

Information, Intelligence, and Decision: Concepts Underpinning the Theory of Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
October 29, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwin’s great coup was to co-opt the term "selection," previously associated with the conscious choice of purposive agents. Read More ›

Intricate details of an antique pocket watch mechanism showcasing gears and springs in close-up

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, bias, Discovery Institute, Elon Musk, encyclopedias, facts, fine-tuning, Grok, Grokipedia, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, intelligent design, Jarvis, Larry Sanger, Nine Theses, philosophy of science, pseudoscience, Reece Rogers, think tank, United States, Wikipedia, William Dembski, Wired}

On Intelligent Design, Wikipedia Hedges, While Grokipedia Tells (Whoa!) the Truth

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 28, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

There is still plenty of time for Grok to be infiltrated by all kinds of bias and it would certainly be wise to keep checking back. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, autobiography, Charles Darwin, Cold War, correspondence, creation, creator, Darwinism, Darwinists, Erasmus Darwin, European culture, evolution, False Messiah, Friedrich Engels, Gospel, intellectual history, Karl Marx, Marxism, Messiah, natural theology, Neil Thomas, radicalism, religion, social science, The Communist Manifesto}

Darwin’s Doubts: A Scientist Betrayed by His Own Followers

_{Neil Thomas
October 28, 2025

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

4}

I will argue that employing Darwin in this way is false twice over: First, it is not what Darwin made himself out to be. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 28, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, beginning, biology, chance processes, cosmology, engineer, English, fine-tuning, France, God the Science the Evidence, human consciousness, ID the Future, information, iPhone, Italy, laws of physics, materialism, Michael Denton, Michel Bolloré, natural constants, Olivier Bonnassies, physics, Spain, universe}

What Can Science Tell Us About the Existence of God?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 28, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

The worldview of materialism is increasingly at odds with the latest scientific discoveries of the last hundred years. Read More ›

AI-generated illustration of a human fetus curled up in the womb

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 27, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, bioethics, black babies, demagoguery, doctors, Dorothy Roberts, drug addiction, ectopic pregnancy, embryology, fetal homicide, fetal personhood, fetus, Killing the Black Body, medical conditions, miscarriages, pregnancy, pro-life laws, pro-lifers, racists, slaveholders, slavery, substance abusers, The New England Journal of Medicine, unborn children, United States, Vermont}

Medical Journal Screed Decries All Fetal Personhood Laws

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 27, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

5}

The authors imply that laws that protect unborn children are racist. But pro-lifers want more black babies born and protected from harm, not fewer. Read More ›

White conceptual keyboard - Wikipedia (key with logotype)

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Date
October 27, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bias, Bruce Gil, chatbots, Donald Trump, Ed Martin, editors, Elon Musk, generative ai, Gizmodo, intelligent design, Larry Sanger, Marshall Miller, Media Research Center, nonprofit organizations, search engines, volunteers, Wikipedia}

Cry Us a River: AI Chatbots May Be Killing Wikipedia

_{Science and Culture
October 27, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

3}

It’s not clear how this will impact a commonly heard criticism of Wikipedia — bias, very much including the subject of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 27, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Baylor University, bioethics, biology, Christians, Christopher Columbus, complementarian model, computer science, concordance models?, conflict model, Copernicus, cosmology, evolution, flat-earth cosmology, Galileo Galilei, Genesis, genomes, Google, Grove City College, history, history of science, intelligent design, Mount Doom, natural philosophy, poetry, pre-Copernican science, religion, Robert J. Marks II, skeptics, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, Winston Ewert}

Science Before the Rise of Modern Science

_{William A. Dembski
October 27, 2025

Faith & Science, History of Science

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An interview with Winston Ewert about his fascinating new book on the interaction between science and faith before Copernicus. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 26, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Big Bang, cancel culture, Christians, Daniel Dennett, Enlightenment, evidence, Free Expression (podcast), God the Science the Evidence, Great Reversal, Jerry Baker, Jesus Christ, Michel-Yves Bolloré, Middle Ages, Olivier Bonnassies, private truth, Renaissance, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, universe, Wall Street Journal}

Look Who’s Talking About New Book on Science and God

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 26, 2025

Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning

5}

When religion wanes, what replaces it is not the calm skies of noble atheism but the snakepit of increasingly unmoored private truth. Read More ›

woman vaccinated and with a band-aid on her arm, giving a sign that all is well.

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 25, 2025

Categories
Epistemology
Evolution
Tagged
, buzzwords, causation, complexity, cosmos, emergence, escape hatch, ignorance, John Heil, materialistic philosophy, philosophers, promissory materialism, scientists, Washington University}

Materialism’s Band-Aid, “Emergence” Is Bad Science

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 25, 2025

Epistemology, Evolution

3}

The idea is that some properties of systems emerge only after a certain level of complexity is reached. Read More ›

Cosmic Nebula Explosion Illustration Photo Wallpaper

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 24, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Barry Arrington, biology, Charles Darwin, cosmology, evidence, evolution, France, God the Science the Evidence, human consciousness, ID the Future, intelligent design, Italy, Michel-Yves Bolloré, natural selection, Olivier Bonnassies, Palomar Editions, physics, podcast, proof, scientific discoveries, Spain, theism, worldview}

The Scientific Discoveries That Make Materialism an Irrational Belief

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 24, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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For the last 150 years, many have assumed science has ejected God from the picture, a quaint relic of a less enlightened past. Read More ›