Tag: Alvin Plantinga

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Author
Kyle Dillon

Date
July 21, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaequatio intellectus ad pulchrum, adaequatio intellectus ad rem, Alvin Plantinga, Artemis II, astronomers, astronomy, beauty, Emmanuel Kant, First Law of Planetary Motion, geocentric model, Harmonice Mundi, Harmonies of the World, heliocentric model, Henri Poincaré, Holy Grail, Johannes Kepler, Justice Potter Stewart, mathematical formulas, Mortimer Adler, NASA, Nicolaus Copernicus, science, Science and Beauty (series), scientific revolution, Supreme Court, theology, Thomas Aquinas, universe, Where the Conflict Really Lies}

Beauty and Science: Canvas of the Great Creator

_{Rev. Kyle A. Dillon
July 21, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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When Johannes Kepler discovered that his mathematical formula perfectly matched his experimental observations, he was euphoric. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 30, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, abduction, abductive inferences, abductive reasoning, Alvin Plantinga, Bible, Big Bang, Calvinism, causes, creator, Dinesh D’Souza, documentary, effects, evidence, heart, induction, inference to the best explanation, intelligent design, New Testament, philosophers, philosophy, Psalms, Romans, scientific reasoning, sensus divinitatis, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, theism, theology, wisdom}

Meyer, D’Souza: Is Knowledge of a Creator Innate?

_{David Klinghoffer
April 30, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

5}

A couple of friends made me laugh last week in telling about a Jewish class they took. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 2, 2026

Categories
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, C. S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Christianity, Douglast Axe, evolutionary literature, G. K. Chesterton, intelligent design, James C. Rautio, James Clerk Maxwell, Katherine Dewar, Lewis Campbell, Matthew Stanley, Michael Flannery, natural theologians, naturalism, Origin of Species, poems, Select Essay Club, Stephen Meyer, The Life of James Clerk Maxwell}

Before Darwin, How Maxwell’s Intelligent Design Argument Forecast Modern ID

_{David Coppedge
April 2, 2026

History of Science, Intelligent Design

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He was well versed in the evolutionary literature as well as in design arguments from antiquity to his day. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 20, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwin on Trial, Darwinism, Denis Diderot, England, Ernst Mayr, Establishment Clause, First Amendment, Harrisburg, Judge John E. Jones, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, Karl Popper, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, L’Homme Machine, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, natural selection, Norman Macbeth, Of Pandas and People, Pennsylvania, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, United States}

Teaching Darwin: A Hypothetical Program

_{Neil Thomas
February 20, 2025

Evolution, Science Education

17}

Charles Darwin himself contemplated being mistaken, writing “I have asked myself whether I may not have devoted my life to a fantasy.” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
December 30, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, atheism, Bible, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, cultural Christianity, Daniel Dennett, documentary, education, ENCODE, Europe, faith and science, Gary Habermas, Islam, James Shapiro, john lennox, Lawrence Krauss, mathematician, natural selection, New Atheism, North America, Old Testament, Oxford University, Pandora’s box, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, Sam Harris, Satan, scientific materialism, Scripture, The Design Inference, The God Delusion, Vaccines, William Graham, woke ideology}

No. 3 Story of 2024: Richard Dawkins the New Cultural Christian

_{William A. Dembski
December 30, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

23}

What Richard Dawkins seems not to have realized — or perhaps now is realizing too late — is that scientific materialism is the suicide of reason. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Science Education
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, atheism, Bible, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, cultural Christianity, Daniel Dennett, documentary, education, ENCODE, Europe, faith and science, Gary Habermas, Islam, James Shapiro, john lennox, Lawrence Krauss, mathematician, natural selection, New Atheism, North America, Old Testament, Oxford University, Pandora’s box, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, Sam Harris, Satan, scientific materialism, Scripture, The Design Inference, The God Delusion, Vaccines, William Graham, woke ideology}

Dawkins the New Cultural Christian

_{William A. Dembski
May 1, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, Science Education

22}

What Richard Dawkins seems not to have realized — or perhaps now is realizing too late — is that scientific materialism is the suicide of reason. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 8, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, creation, creationism, death, designer, evolution, humans, intelligent design, natural evil, pain, Panda's Thumb, peer-reviewed literature, sickness, special creation, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, theology, waste, William A. Dembski}

Does a Suboptimal Panda’s Thumb Fit Better with Evolution than with Intelligent Design?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 8, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

Just how much does evolution expect suboptimal structures? And just how much does intelligent design expect optimal ones? Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 8, 2024

Categories
Biology
Ethics
Mathematics
Science Education
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), Alvin Plantinga, Aristotle, baseball, Brooklyn College, cancel culture, China, Euclid, freedom, Friedrich Nietzsche, gender, George Orwell, John Archibald Wheeler, Joseph Stalin, knowledge, Ontario, philosophers, Pythagoras, relativism, Richard Rorty, sex, teachers, transgenderism, truth, Twitter, University of Chicago}

The War on 2 + 2 = 4

_{William A. Dembski
April 8, 2024

Biology, Ethics, Mathematics, Science Education

23}

The people weighing in against 2 + 2 = 4 are not mathematicians but in education departments where they teach the teaching of mathematics. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
December 11, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Alvin Plantinga, Barbara Forrest, brain, C.S. Lewis, censorship, Charles Darwin, Christian colleges, Christianity, cosmologists, goodness, intelligent design, Lawrence Krauss, materialism, monkey, National Association of Scholars, Northwestern University, Paul Gross, physical laws, post-truth, Richard Dawkins, scientific materialism, Steven Pinker, William Graham, woke ideology, worldview}

How Scientific Materialism Begot Woke Ideology

_{William A. Dembski
December 11, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy, Reproductive Science

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I’m seeing people like Krauss assume the role as champions of traditional academic values (reason, merit, free discourse) against the barbarian hordes. Read More ›

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Date
September 22, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, Alvin Plantinga, bacterial flagellum, blood-clotting cascade, cilium, evolution, ID the Future, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, Pat Flynn, podcast, Russell Doolittle}

Michael Behe Answers More Reasonable Objections to Intelligent Design

_{Science & Culture
September 22, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

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Behe and Pat Flynn tackle critiques from Alvin Plantinga, Graham Oppy, Russell Doolittle, Kenneth Miller, and others. Read More ›