Tag: agency

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
June 30, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __trending, "God of the gaps", agency, Aristotle, biologists, Charles Darwin, chemistry, complexity, emergence, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, flowers, function, G. H. Lewes, ime's Second Arrow, improbability, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, language, Life Itself, machines, materialists, mechanism, metaphysics, Michael Behe, Michael Polanyi, Michael Wong, natural selection, naturalism, organisms, physics, probability, purpose, RNA, Robert Hazen, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, Second Law of Thermodynamics, specified irreducible complexity, telos, Thomas Jefferson, Time's Second Arrow}

Misinterpreting Teleology: Another Attempt to Salvage Materialism

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 30, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It’s a “self-evident truth,” as Thomas Jefferson, an early ID proponent himself, might have put it: organisms necessarily exist by virtue of purpose. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 2, 2026

Categories
Earth Sciences
Environment & Climate
Tagged
, agency, Andes, climate, ecocide, environmental policy, environmentalism, ethnic cleansing, genocide, geological features, glaciers, Great Lakes, human beings, Ice Age, India, indigenous peoples, legal rights, National Geographic, natural entities, nature rights, Pachamama, PLOS Climate, public policy, religion, science journals, snow}

Climate Science Journal Trumpets Glaciers’ “Right to Exist”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 2, 2026

Earth Sciences, Environment & Climate

4}

Glaciers are made up of snow that over millennia compacted into ice. They grow or shrink based on climate. They are geological features. Read More ›

A close-up of a purple water droplet creating a splash in a shallow pool of purple liquid. The background is blurred, emphasizing the droplet's shape and color.

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
May 13, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A. N. Whitehead, active matter, agency, biomolecular condensates, biosphere, cellular biology, central dogma, cytoplasm, DNA, droplets, function, goal-directedness, Life Itself, liquid-liquid phase separations, machines, mechanism, membrane-less organelles, molecular agency, molecular biology, organelles, proteins, rigidity, RNA, science of purpose, scientific materialism, self-organization, soft matter, specified irreducible complexity, structure-function relationship, Stuart Kauffman, telos, Thomistic-Aristotelian ontology}

Studies on Active Matter: Potency into Act

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
May 13, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Amorphous and dynamic as they are, the LLPS droplets support numerous crucial cellular functions, devoid of a permanent scaffolding structure. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 20, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, agency, Amazon, Bible, books, Christians, circuitry, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, evolution, faith and science, genetics, genome, immaterial genome, intelligent agent, intelligent design, John West, law, medicine, non-Christians, Plato's Revenge, Politics, religion, reviews, Richard Sternberg, RNA, Stockholm Syndrome Christian}

New Audiobooks by John West, David Klinghoffer Available Now

_{David Klinghoffer
October 20, 2025

Faith & Science, Genetics, Intelligent Design

4}

Speaking of Amazon, we follow the reviews there, and it’s always welcome to see what readers have to say. I’ll share the top review of each book respectively. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 13, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Zoology
Tagged
, agency, animal behavior, biologists, biology, complexity, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, DNA, Eric Hedin, hive, honeybees, immaterial genome, intelligent design, migration, physicists, protein-coding DNA, Richard Sternberg, Seattle, traffic}

Honeybees, Traffic Accidents, and the Immaterial Genome

_{David Klinghoffer
May 13, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science, Zoology

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An RV strangely burst into explosive flames yesterday afternoon in a traffic accident in the Mount Baker tunnel that leads from Seattle across Lake Washington. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
April 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, agency, archaeology, Big Bang, biology, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, cells, complex and specified information, DNA, embryo, evolutionary, evolutionism, genes, heresy, historical sciences, history, immaterial genome, intelligent cause, intelligent design, J. Scott Turner, National Museum of Natural History, peer-reviewed literature, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonism, purpose, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Wall Street Journal}

Plato’s Revenge: Intelligent Design in Real Time

_{Emily Sandico
April 28, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

5}

David Klinghoffer engages Richard Sternberg’s big questions, and a number of his own, on philosophical, scientific, and even highly personal planes. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, agency, algorithms, biology, chemicals, chemistry, codes, cognition, embryology, engineering, genetic code, Hydra, induction, mammals, Michael Levin, Perry Marshall, predictions, Rutgers University, Seymour Garte, Stuart Kauffman}

New Article Calls for a Philosophical Revolution in Biology, Placing Mind Over Matter

_{Brian Miller
April 17, 2025

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Biology is directed by cognition. But the authors do not attempt to explain the source of cognition or how it originated. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 4, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, agency, Benjamin Libet, brain, compatibilism, Darwinian processes, Denyse O'Leary, Determined (book), evolution, Free Agents, free will, Kevin Mitchell, materialists, muscles, neurobiology, neuroscientists, randomness, Robert Sapolsky, Trinity College Dublin}

Did Evolution Give Us Free Will?

_{Daniel Witt
March 4, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

8}

If you pick up a book up about free will by a materialist, you are generally safe to assume that the point will be to explain that free will is an illusion. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, agency, Aristotle, C.S. Lewis, coevolution, evo-devo, hunter-gatherers, materialism, niche construction, Plato, self-organization, synergy, Systems Biology, teleonomy}

An Evolutionary Theorist Plays with Words; Let’s See How Far It Gets Him

_{Daniel Witt
August 15, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Francis Heylighen’s “ontology of relational agency” starts with an interesting observation. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 29, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, agency, complexity, consciousness, evidence, evolution, free will, human behavior, imago Dei, intelligence, intelligent design, Internet, Judeo-Christian tradition, learning, materialism, memory, mind, Ohio, randomness, science writers, scientists, sensitivity}

Do Fungi Have Free-Will?

_{Daniel Witt
April 29, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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Whenever a new hypothesis like this is published and calmly debated in scientific journals without arousing any furor, your first instinct may be to scoff. Read More ›