Science and Culture Today | Discovering Design in Nature

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
March 17, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, assumptions, background information, Bayes factor, Bayes’s theorem, Bayesian confirmation theory, Bayesian reasoning, Clark Glymour, confidence, denominators, Dutch book argument, epistemic probabilities, evidence, fine-tuning, fine-tuning argument, general relativity, General Theory of Relativity, hypothesis, likelihood, likelihood ratio, marginal probability, mental state, Mercury, naturalism, Nevin Climenhaga, normalization factor, panpsychism, pantheism, posterior probability, prior probability, probabilities, psychological states, Sean Carroll, subjectivism, subjectivist Bayesianism, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism, universe}

Bayesian Methodology and the Fine-Tuning Argument

_{Bruce Gordon
March 17, 2026

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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To use Clark Glymour’s example, Einstein's general theory of relativity explained the anomalous precession of Mercury's perihelion. Read More ›

red pulsating heart with veins, anatomy of a human organ, on a blue background with bokeh

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 17, 2026

Categories
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, atrial fibrillation, confidence, database, Eric Anderson, evidence, headlines, medical claims, medical world, patients, rigor, Science News, scientific claims}

High Confidence? Low Confidence? Six Criteria for Science Claims

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 17, 2026

Medicine, Technology

2}

To illustrate the difference between high and low confidence science, Rob Stadler shares a humbling story from his career in medical devices. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 16, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, amplitude, Andrew Schultz, Asian elephants, biology, cats, curb feelers, engineering, finite element analysis, frequency, interoception, Katherine Kuchenbecker, Marc S. Lavine, material intelligence, materials, Max Planck Institute, mechanosensors, medical devices, Merkel cells, neuroscience, peanut, potato chip, power, rat whiskers, rats, rodents, Science (journal), sensory neurons, stiffness gradient, vibrotactile signals, whisker breakage, whisker hairs}

Research Reveals Elephant’s Amazing Sense of Touch

_{David Coppedge
March 16, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design, Zoology

8}

Elephants can turn over a jeep and pull down a tree, but they can also pick up a potato chip without breaking it. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Against the Professors, Albert Einstein, ancient Greece, aphasia, arithmeticians, Arthur Eddington, Arthur Koestler, astrologers, ataraxia, Carlo Rovelli, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Chrysippus, Das Wesen des Christentums, David Hume, epistemology, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Friedrich Nietzsche, geometers, grammarians, J. B. Bury, J. B. S. Haldane, James Moore, Jerry Coyne, John Dewey, Ludwig Feuerbach, Marcus du Sautoy, Max Planck, musicians, natural preservation, natural selection, Neal Gillespie, New Atheists, Newtonian mechanics, Niels Bohr, Origin of Species, philosophy, Pierre Bayle, Pons Malleus, Pyrrho, revisions, rhetors, Sanford G. Etheridge, Sextus Empiricus, Sir Charles Lyell, Steve Taylor, The Descent of Man, Werner Heisenberg, Why Evolution Is True, William James, William Shakespeare}

Darwin’s Doubts, and Their Philosophical Implications

_{Neil Thomas
March 16, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

14}

Charles Darwin thus appears to us more modern than his present-day disciples, whose unbending materialism comes closer to that of Erasmus Darwin. Read More ›

Statue of Charles Darwin in Shrewsbury UK

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Author
John G. West

Date
March 16, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Kinsey, Christopher Ryan, conscience, cultural anarchy, Darwinian biology, Darwinism, Declaration of Independence, endowed by our creator, ethics, family life, Founders, Friedrich Nietzsche, human sexuality, libertinism, liberty, Moral Law, morality, natural selection, New York Times, reason, relativism, revelation, Robert Wright, Sex at Dawn, sexual morality, United States, world view}

Darwinism’s Attack on the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God

_{John G. West
March 16, 2026

Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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Needless to say, this new view of morality is toxic to the Founders’ understanding of liberty. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
March 13, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Archbishop Józef Mirosław Życiński, Bible, biological origins, Brown University, C. Everett Koop, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Catholic intellectuals, Darwinism, Edward Peltzer, Ernan McMullin, evolution, Fr. Martin Hilbert, Fr. Michael Chaberek, Fr. Richard Pendergast, Francis Schaeffer, Genesis, intelligent design, James Tour, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Kurt Wise, Lumen Christi Institute, macroevolution, microevolution, Protestant circles, Protestants, Roe v. Wade, Roman Catholicism, Steve Greene, The Design Inference, University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame, Young Earth Creationists}

Why Roman Catholicism Needs Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
March 13, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

23}

Through high school and most of junior high, I attended Roman Catholic schools. I liked the discipline. I learned to buckle down on my studies. Read More ›

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Date
March 13, 2026

Categories
Arts
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Allan Sandage, bad dream, Big Bang, Brian Josephson, chance, Charles Murray, Christianity, designer, Eric Esau, faith, Georges Lemaître, God and the Astronomers, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Larry Sanger, Lawrence Krauss, material reality, New York Times, physical laws, priests, reason, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Robert Jastrow, scientific revolution, scientists, Stephen Meyer, stories, supernatural, The Story of Everything, theologians, theoretical physicists, unintelligent forces, universe, Wikipedia}

Tickets Available Now: New Film Tells of Cosmic Beginning and the God Hypothesis

_{Science & Culture
March 13, 2026

Arts, Cosmology, Faith & Science

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In a beautiful, exciting, deeply informed film, scientists and scholars explain why the story of meaning and purpose in a created universe has been vindicated. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 13, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, clergymen, conversation, Creation or Evolution?, evolution, faith and reason, faith and science, faith community, Fr. Michael Chaberek, implications, intelligent design, laymen, Neo-Darwinism, pastors, philosophy, priests, rabbis, reason, Reasonably Rational, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholics, science, Steve Greene, synthesis, theology}

Watch: Catholics in Conversation on Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
March 13, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Fr. Michael is doing what many a member of a faith community probably wishes his own clergyman could do, given the importance of the subject. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 12, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, atheists, biology, Cambridge, England, information, information theory, intelligent design, James Orr, mathematics, Natural Sciences, natural theology, Nature, philosophy of science, physics, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, Theory of Everything}

Stephen Meyer in Cambridge: Natural Theology or Intelligent Design?

_{David Klinghoffer
March 12, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Adds James Orr, “You might call it non-natural theology in that your argument around mathematics and information is that it's not naturalistically explicable. Read More ›

Closeup of a newborn baby dreaming and smiling while sleeping.

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Author
George Montañez

Date
March 12, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, AI systems, angels, Arthur Benjamin, artifacts, artificial inteligence, atheists, Buddhists, Christianity, dehumanizing, ethics, functional capabilities, Herodians, Hindus, human abilities, human intelligence, human value, humans, image, image-bearing, intelligence, jesus, Judaism, Judeo-Christian framework, Muslims, newborn, Pharisees, representation, resemblance, Son of Man, spiritual beings}

Why AI Won’t Replace Us Spiritually

_{George Montañez
March 12, 2026

Computational Sciences, Human Exceptionalism

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AI systems increasingly resemble human intelligence. But resemblance alone does not make them image bearers. It cannot. AI systems do not represent God. Read More ›