Tag: Arthur Eddington

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
April 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Arthur Eddington, Cambrian Explosion, Carnegie Institution, complexity, diversity, earth, eukaryotic cells, functional complexity, functionality, intelligent mind, kinetic energy, laws of nature, laws of physics, life, Michael Wong, mineralogists, non-living matter, organisms, Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, quantum theory, Robert Hazen, Second Law of Thermodynamics, specified complexity, speed of light, universe}

Theory of Increasing Complexity Fails the Test of Science

_{Eric Hedin
April 8, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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What are evolutionists to do when their theory runs afoul of the laws of nature? Why, propose a bold new law of nature! 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

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

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
August 29, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Arthur Eddington, Charles Darwin, computers, Discovery Institute Press, early Earth, electron, evolution, Evolution News, In the Beginning, intelligent design, materialists, nuclear power plants, physical forces, protons, quantum mechanics, spaceships, supernatural, unintelligent causes, unintelligent forces}

How the Supernatural Entered Science

_{Granville Sewell
August 29, 2023

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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I recently came across a nice little video which seems to prove that π = 0. Each step seems reasonable. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
March 2, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Alan Guth, Alan Sandage, Alexander Vilenkin, Arthur Eddington, Arvind Borde, beginning, Big Bang, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, creation, Fred Hoyle, Hermann Bondi, intelligent design, law of gravity, Lawrence Krauss, Paul Steinhardt, Robert Jastrow, Stephen Hawking, string theory, universe}

Efforts to Resist the Big Bang and Its Implications for Cosmic Design

_{Brian Miller
March 2, 2022

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Unsurprisingly, many academics have attempted to overturn the conclusion of a beginning through the most creative of means. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
December 10, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Anthony Flew, Arthur Eddington, atheism, Carlo Rovelli, Christian de Duve, Eric Metaxas, Goldilocks Zone, intelligent design, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Nobel laureates, quantum physics, The Return to the God Paradigm (series), theism, Uncertainty Principle, Werner Heisenberg}

The Tip of a Larger Iceberg

_{Neil Thomas
December 10, 2021

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Our profound ignorance of what Lucretius termed the nature of things has been revealed by the work of Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Heisenberg. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
October 1, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, airplanes, Arthur Eddington, closed system, computer simulations, computers, electromagnetic force, encyclopedias, gravitational force, intelligence, Internet, keyboards, Mathematical Intelligencer, natural selection, novels, PDE2D, planets, Second Law of Thermodynamics, strong and weak nuclear forces, Why Evolution Is Different}

My Failed Computer Simulation

_{Granville Sewell
October 1, 2020

Intelligent Design, Physics

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I said, “You mean there is a fifth force — why didn't you say so? Just give me the equations for this force and I will add it to my model.” Read More ›

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Author
Jay W. Richards

Date
May 29, 2019

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Albert Einstein, Arthur Eddington, astronomers, coincidence, conspiracy, earth, eclipse, Goldilocks Zone, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Mars, Moon, science, sun, The Privileged Planet}

Perfect Eclipses: Coincidence or Conspiracy?

_{Jay W. Richards
May 29, 2019

Physical Sciences

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Today we celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the solar eclipse that, on May 29, 1919, physicist Arthur Eddington observed, seeking to test the General Theory of Relativity. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
March 4, 2019

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Alexander Friedmann, Arno Penzias, Arthur Eddington, Arthur Walker, Big Bang, Cosmic Egg, cosmic microwave background radiation, Edwin Hubble, Fred Hoyle, General Theory of Relativity, George Gamow, Georges Lemaître, Hermann Bondi, Howard Robertson, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Ralph Alpher, redshift, Robert Herman, Steady State, Thomas Gold, tired light, Walther Nernst}

Confirming the Big Bang: The Early Decades

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
March 4, 2019

Physical Sciences

5}

Cosmologists have come a long way since Edwin Hubble published that ratty looking plot of galaxy recession velocities versus distance. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
October 24, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, __edited, aliens, Arthur Eddington, beauty, bioinformatics, biomimicry, Christianity, DNA, ENCODE, faith, Houston Baptist University, intelligent design, Johannes Kepler, medicine, Michael Egnor, natural world, science, Science and the Mind of the Maker, scientific revolution, surgery, theism, Walter Bradley Center}

Melissa Cain Travis Introduces the “Maker Thesis”

_{Sarah Chaffee
October 24, 2018

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Technology

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Science reveals a transcendent mind, and mind enables science. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 28, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, Aeon, Arthur Eddington, atheism, Big Bang, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmopsychism, electrons, evil, existence, general relativity, goodness, gravity, Immanuel Kant, John Leslie, Lee Smolin, mind, nature, Phillip Goff, quarks, soul, strong nuclear force, universe}

The Universe Reflects a Mind

_{Michael Egnor
February 28, 2018

Faith & Science, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Philosopher Phillip Goff is, intriguingly, on the right track but he errs in his subsequent inference to cosmopsychism. Read More ›