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Larry Sanger at Discovery Institute's 2024 COSM Technology Summit

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 22, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, agnosticism, Andrew McDiarmid, apologetics, Christianity, clergy, courage, editors, faith, ID the Future, Larry Sanger, Nathan Jacobson, neutrality, podcast, religion, Stephen Meyer, Wikipedia, William A. Dembski}

Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger on Intelligent Design and His Conversion to Christianity

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April 22, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Sanger was content with his agnosticism until a student posed a question about the fine-tuning of the universe and whether it pointed to a mind behind nature. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 20, 2025

Categories
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic institutions, Andrew McDiarmid, censorship, Charles Darwin, Christianity, climate change, common science, credentialism, culture, defining science, elitism, empirical science, experimental science, Forrest Mims, interviews, Maverick Scientist, PhD, prejudice, scientists, skeptics}

“What Is a Scientist?” A Fine Review for Forrest Mims

_{David Klinghoffer
March 20, 2025

Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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"A critique of scientific elitism, and a guidebook for anyone who wants to pursue real science — regardless of credentials." Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, Darwinian process, Emily Reeves, evolution, evolutionary process, How Life Works, ID the Future, intelligent design, living systems, machine metaphor, meaning, Philip Ball, purpose, relationships, religion, universe, work}

Meaning and Purpose from a Darwinian Process?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 27, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Emily Reeves looks at the top sources of meaning in life, including religion, relationships, and work, and evaluates the evolutionary view of each. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 20, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Geology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Physics
Rare Earth
Technology
Tagged
, agriculture, Andrew McDiarmid, Brian Miller, cooking, earth, evidence, fire, food, foresight, gold, hunting, ID the Future, intelligent design, iron, likelihood ratio, physicists, plate tectonics, soil, technological advancement, universe, water cycle}

How Earth is Designed for Human Technology

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 20, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Physics, Rare Earth, Technology

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Is all this a coincidence? We think that’s a stretch. One or two fortunate parameters might be called a fluke. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 16, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, circulatory system, complexity, connective tissue, evolutionary mechanisms, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Behe, muscle contraction, muscle fibers, muscles, nervous system, respiratory system, tendons}

The Incredible Design of Muscles

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 16, 2024

Biochemistry, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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To understand the limitations of evolutionary mechanisms, we have to “bite the bullet of complexity,” as biochemist Michael Behe writes. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 25, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, archeology, Casey Luskin, documentaries, Homo naledi, human origins, ID the Future, Lee Berger, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, Netflix, paleontology, Rising Star Cave, science fiction, Scientific American, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal}

Science or Science Fiction? Scientists Debate

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 25, 2024

Bioethics, Human Origins and Anthropology, Science Reporting

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Should some Netflix documentaries be labeled science fiction? Two are currently targeted by researchers in paleontology and archeology respectively. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 17, 2023

Categories
Biology
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academia, administrators, Andrew McDiarmid, CNN, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), gender, genocide, Harvard University, historians, humanities, ID the Future, intelligent causes, methodological naturalism, methodological pluralism, Michael Keas, MIT, natural causes, Peggy Noonan, podcast, professors, race, scholars, tenure, universities, University of Pennsylvania, Wall Street Journal, woke ideology, worldview}

Recognizing the Scandal in the Universities — Will It Extend to Origins Science?

_{David Klinghoffer
December 17, 2023

Biology, Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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The regime of methodological naturalism is affirmative action for scientific ideas. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 6, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, Ball State University, determinism, experience, free will, good, humans, ID the Future, infancy, intelligent design, laws of nature, morality, suffering, universe}

Eric Hedin on Free Will and Morality in an Intelligently Designed World

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 6, 2023

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Physics

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As Hedin puts it, “The universe reveals who we are by allowing us to make free choices.” In other words, the ball is in our court. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 25, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, After Death, Andrew McDiarmid, death, documentary, Heaven, Hell, ID the Future, illusion, life, near-death experiences, podcast, resuscitation, soul, tickets}

Accounts from “After Death” Defeat Materialist Contentions About the Soul

_{David Klinghoffer
October 25, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Ahead of the Friday theatrical release, our colleague Andrew McDiarmid talked with Dr. Jeffrey Long, a cancer doctor who appears in the film. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 13, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Andrew McDiarmid, archetype, artificial intelligence, Center for Science and Culture, Colorado Christian University, Discovery Institute, image, Johannes Kepler, materialists, Melissa Cain Travis, multiverse, natural theology, Paul Davies, rationality, Roger Penrose, Thinking God’s Thoughts, transhumanism}

Uncovering the Hidden Mathematical Structure of the Universe

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 13, 2023

Astronomy, Mathematics, Physical Sciences

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Genuine human rationality would not exist if a naturalistic account of the human mind were correct. Read More ›