Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 12, 2019

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, Alvin Plantinga, dog, essence, existence, Five Ways, geometry, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, logic, Ontological Argument, planets, Plato, Platonic forms, René Descartes, science, stars, Thomas Aquinas, unicorns}

Essence and Existence in Modern Science

_{Michael Egnor
October 12, 2019

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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St. Thomas laid the intellectual groundwork for modern natural science — the absolute distinction between existence and essence. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 11, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __edited, Aristotle, atheistic naturalism, bias, cat, Christianity, dog, essence, existence, faith, Fluffy, kittens, reality, Thomas Aquinas, unicorns, Venn diagram}

Essence and Existence: The Cornerstone of Thomistic Metaphysics

_{Michael Egnor
October 11, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

6}

I can describe anything you like in whatever detail you like, but you can’t know whether it exists or not merely by its description. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 11, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Baylor University, Black Hills, black holes, calculations, equations, information, intelligent design, Jeffrey Shallit, Mount Fuji, Mount Rushmore, Robert J. Marks II, rock, sculpture, textbook}

Rankled by Mount Fuji, Darwinist Jeffrey Shallit Offers Little Self-Refuting Black Holes

_{Michael Egnor
October 11, 2019

Intelligent Design

3}

Dr. Marks is obviously right. A sculpture has more information than the raw material from which the image was sculpted. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 10, 2019

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Ann Gauger, blood vessels, Boston, creation myth, Darwinism, Design Inference, evolution, intelligent design, literature, lungs, Nobel Prize, oxygen, red blood cells, reverse-engineering, scientists, teachers}

It’s Another Great Nobel Year for Design

_{Michael Egnor
October 10, 2019

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

And a bad year for a 19th-century creation myth. It’s understandable that Darwinists are a bit dejected. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 10, 2019

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, academic freedom, atheism, Ball State University, Censor of the Year, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, Discovery Institute, Eric Hedin, evolutionary biology, freedom from religion foundation, Günter Bechly, Jerry Coyne, journalism, Quillette}

Censors Silenced Eric Hedin, but They Couldn’t Silence David Gelernter: Here’s Why It Matters

_{Brian Miller
October 10, 2019

Scientific Freedom

3}

Against Yale polymath David Gelernter, atheist Jerry Coyne had to resort to engaging the actual arguments. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 9, 2019

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, Big Bang, Brian Josephson, Canadians, Charles Townes, intelligent design, Kevin Williamson, National Review, Nobel Prize, physical existence, Princeton University, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Wall Street Journal}

Physics Nobel Prize Invites Snark from the Anti-ID Peanut Gallery

_{David Klinghoffer
October 9, 2019

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics

3}

Insofar as Peebles’s work helps to strengthen the evidence for a cosmic beginning, it is actually part of the argument for intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 8, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, __edited, C.S. Lewis, civilization, complex life, consciousness, Darwin Devolves, Darwinists, David Berlinski, David Chalmers, David Gelernter, evolution, Greek, Human Nature (book), intelligent design, Islam, Italy, Jerry Coyne, Long Term Evolution Experiment, LTEE, materialism, Michael Behe, Paris, Peter Robinson, Rational Religion, Ray Kurzweil, Richard Lenski, saltation, Singularity, Stephen Meyer, subjunctive, The Greatest Show on Earth, theistic evolution, Umar Nasser, Uncommon Knowledge}

Berlinski Banters Entertainingly with ID-Friendly Muslims

_{David Klinghoffer
October 8, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

5}

Dr. Berlinski questions evolutionary understandings of language and expresses doubt as to what reproductive benefit could have accrued to “the first guy to master the Greek subjunctive.” Read More ›

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Date
October 7, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, animals, arthropod, BBC News, bilaterians, burrowing, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, chordate, Darwin's Doubt, earthworms, Ediacaran Period, fossil record, Kimberella, lophotrochozoans, Nature (journal), New Scientist, Stephen Meyer, trilobite, University of Edinburgh, Yilingia spiciformis}

Worming Evolution into the Cambrian Explosion

_{Science and Culture
October 7, 2019

Evolution

8}

A new fossil worm from the closing days of the Ediacaran is being celebrated as a missing link that demonstrates a gradual Cambrian diversification, not an explosion. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 6, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, Alzheimer’s disease, assisted suicide, barbiturates, Bill Clinton, Congress, Department of Health and Human Services, euthanasia, hospice, hospitals, hydration, medical school, medicine, nutrition, Oregon, palliative care, self-starvation, Supreme Court, VSED}

A Trojan Horse for Euthanasia? No

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 6, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

9}

When my mother was dying of Alzheimer’s disease and the sharp bodily decline that hits those in their late 90s, my wife and I brought her home for care. Read More ›

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Date
October 5, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Andrew McDiarmid, beavers, biodiversity, ID the Future, intelligent design, podcast, Scotland, walnut, water lily}

Intelligent Design: A Gift that Keeps on Giving, Cont.

_{Science and Culture
October 5, 2019

Intelligent Design

1}

Researchers in Scotland have shown that beavers, once considered by some as nuisances good only for their pelts, are actually great biodiversity engineers. Read More ›