Tag: Arthur Eddington

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Author
Kyle Dillon

Date
July 22, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, aesthetic criteria, Albert Einstein, Anthony O’Hear, Artemis II, Arthur Eddington, beauty, Brian Greene, coherence, controversy, disinterested, Earthset, empirical fit, existential, fauna, fittingness, flora, fruitfulness, Guillermo Gonzalez, Jay Richards, John Frame, Mare Orientale, mathematical beauty, Michael Keas, Milky Way, Moon, Nobel Prize, normative, oughtness, philosophers, pleasure, Science and Beauty (series), scientific theories, Serge Brunier, situational, solar eclipse, Steven Weinberg, subatomic particles, The Elegant Universe, The Evidential Power of Beauty, The Privileged Planet, theoretical virtues, Thomas Dubay, triperspectivalism}

Science and Beauty: The Lens of Triperspectivalism

_{Rev. Kyle A. Dillon
July 22, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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To the non-scientist, it may come as a surprise that scientists would appeal to aesthetic standards in evaluating the validity of scientific theories. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Against the Professors, Albert Einstein, ancient Greece, aphasia, arithmeticians, Arthur Eddington, Arthur Koestler, astrologers, ataraxia, Carlo Rovelli, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Chrysippus, Das Wesen des Christentums, David Hume, epistemology, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Friedrich Nietzsche, geometers, grammarians, J. B. Bury, J. B. S. Haldane, James Moore, Jerry Coyne, John Dewey, Ludwig Feuerbach, Marcus du Sautoy, Max Planck, musicians, natural preservation, natural selection, Neal Gillespie, New Atheists, Newtonian mechanics, Niels Bohr, Origin of Species, philosophy, Pierre Bayle, Pons Malleus, Pyrrho, revisions, rhetors, Sanford G. Etheridge, Sextus Empiricus, Sir Charles Lyell, Steve Taylor, The Descent of Man, Werner Heisenberg, Why Evolution Is True, William James, William Shakespeare}

Darwin’s Doubts, and Their Philosophical Implications

_{Neil Thomas
March 16, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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Charles Darwin thus appears to us more modern than his present-day disciples, whose unbending materialism comes closer to that of Erasmus Darwin. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
April 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Arthur Eddington, Cambrian Explosion, complexity, diversity, earth, eukaryotic cells, functional complexity, functionality, intelligent mind, kinetic energy, laws of nature, laws of physics, life, 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, apologetics, Arthur Eddington, atheism, Big Bang, Charles Bradlaugh, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Goldilocks Zone, Karl Popper, Lucretius, natural preservation, natural selection, New Atheists, randomness, Richard Dawkins, spontaneous generation, teleology, The Descent of Man, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Malthus, 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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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, protons, quantum mechanics, spaceships, supernatural, unintelligent forces}

How the Supernatural Entered Science

_{Granville Sewell
August 29, 2023

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

5}

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, Alexander Vilenkin, Arthur Eddington, Arvind Borde, beginning, Big Bang, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, creation, Fred Hoyle, intelligent design, 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, intelligence, Internet, Mathematical Intelligencer, natural selection, novels, PDE2D, planets, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Why Evolution Is Different}

My Failed Computer Simulation

_{Granville Sewell
October 1, 2020

Intelligent Design, Physics

4}

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
, __cedited, 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, Big Bang, cosmic microwave background radiation, Edwin Hubble, Fred Hoyle, General Theory of Relativity, George Gamow, Georges Lemaître, redshift}

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 ›