Tag: apologetics

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Date
July 7, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, American Birth Control League, American Crisis, apologetics, Bible, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Clarence Darrow, culture, Dayton, Discovery Institute, Eugene Debs, Eugenics Education Society, Francis Galton, fundamentalist Christianity, H.L. Mencken, Hollywood, Industrial Workers of the World, Inherit the Wind, Jefrey Breshears, John Scopes, John West, Only Yesterday, Origin of Species, Roaring Twenties, science and religion, scientific racism, scientism, Scopes trial, Tennessee, The Areopagus, The Descent of Man, The Magician’s Twin, trial lawyers, William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson, Young Earth Creationists}

Scopes Revisited: An Interview with Historian Jefrey Breshears

_{Science and Culture
July 7, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Promoted as a battle royale between science and religion — evolutionary theory versus biblical creation — in its actual content the trial was underwhelming. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
July 6, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, apologetics, Baylor University, Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Christianity, coconuts, CRU, Dignity Coconuts, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, For a Greater Purpose, Gospel of John, Jay Richards, poverty, slavery, Stephen Meyer, Texas A&M University, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley}

Remembering Walter Bradley: A Trailblazer in Intelligent Design with a Legacy to Inspire

_{Robert J. Marks II
July 6, 2025

Engineering, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

6}

It is with deep reverence that I learned of the passing of my hero. Walter was a man of extraordinary intellect, boundless compassion, and unwavering faith. Read More ›

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, online encyclopedias, podcast, religion, Stephen Meyer, Wikipedia, William A. Dembski}

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

_{David Klinghoffer
April 22, 2025

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

2}

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
June 5, 2024

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, apologetics, evidence, intelligent activity, intelligent design, methodological naturalism, Reasons to Believe, scientific evidence, scientific method}

Luskin: Why Intelligent Design Is the Truly Scientific Method

_{David Klinghoffer
June 5, 2024

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

3}

That codicil, a matter of personal or philosophical preference, binds and blinds the scientist in a way that is NOT scientific. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 12, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, A. N. Wilson, abiogenesis, Anaximander, Anaximenes, apologetics, Arthur Eddington, atheism, Big Bang, Charles Bradlaugh, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Goldilocks Zone, Karl Popper, Lucretius, Melanie Phillips, natural preservation, natural selection, New Atheists, New Synthesis, randomness, Richard Dawkins, spontaneous generation, teleology, The Descent of Man, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Malthus, Victorian period, Werner Heisenberg}

Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences

_{Neil Thomas
February 12, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Faith & Science

20}

The New Atheists’ failure to understand the nuanced way that “ordinary people” think was a profound strategic error. Read More ›

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Date
January 26, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, apologetics, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, David Berlinski, Eric Metaxas, events, john lennox, John West, Politics, Rainier Club, scientism, Socrates in the City, Stephen C. Meyer, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Magician's Twin}

C. S. Lewis on Science Abuse: Join Eric Metaxas and John West for Socrates in the City, Feb. 8 in Seattle

_{Science and Culture
January 26, 2024

Bioethics, Faith & Science

2}

Lewis was a critic of the growing power of scientism, the effort to apply science to areas outside its bounds. His writing on this couldn't be timelier. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
November 18, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, acorn, apologetics, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Chronicles of Narnia, eggs, embryos, human beings, intelligent design, locomotives, Mere Christianity, nature, oak tree, steamships, The Magician's Twin, theism, theology, universal evolutionism, World War II}

An Argument from C. S. Lewis for Intelligent Design

_{John G. West
November 18, 2022

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

According to Lewis, “universal evolutionism” has schooled us to think complicated functional things naturally arise from cruder and less complicated things. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 4, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Psychology
Tagged
, americans, apologetics, Charles Darwin, Darwinian theory, evolution, fantasy, John West, Medieval Europe, morality, nature, policy, science fiction, scientism, The Magician's Twin, totalitarianism, Westerners}

John West: C. S. Lewis and the “Human Fallibility of Science”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 4, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Psychology

4}

The spirt or psychology of the day gives us the science we wished for. This makes it highly fallible, and potentially dangerous. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 22, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, apologetics, Aristotle, Christianity, creationism, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, evolution, faith, Islam, Martin Luther, Muslims, Plato, Protestantism, Pythagoras, Richard Dawkins, scientific establishment, secularization, theology}

Muslims Should Be Natural Allies of Intelligent Design

_{Robert Shedinger
February 22, 2022

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

5}

I have been invited to speak at many Islamic Centers throughout the United States and Canada over the last ten years. Read More ›

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Date
December 1, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anthology, apologetics, Eric Anderson, evolution, geologists, ID critics, ID the Future, intelligent design, podcast, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith}

Casey Luskin: Why Intelligent Design Is Worth Defending

_{Science and Culture
December 1, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Is intelligent design true? And is it worth expending the energy to defend it against powerful opposition? Read More ›