Tag: assumptions

Close-up shot of microscope with metal lens.

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __featured2, assumptions, biology, Casey Luskin, complex biological features, cosmic fine-tuning, DNA, Elon Musk, end of year, epigenetics, evolution, evolutionary algorithms, evolutionary models, intelligent design, irreducibly complex features, Neo-Darwinism, orphan genes, peer-reviewed literature, population genetics, predictions, Research, RNA splicing, Salvo Magazine, sugar code, systems biology, Terrell Clemmons, Third Way of Evolution, Tree of Life}

Luskin: The State of the Intelligent Design Debate

_{David Klinghoffer
December 11, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Terrell Clemmons asked, "Where have you seen the ID movement make strides?" This is some of the material that I wish someone would share with Elon Musk. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, assumptions, awake brain surgery, bank account, brain, chimpanzee genome, Chronicles Magazine, consciousness, human mind, John Zmirak, material reality, materialism, materialists, meaning, Michael Egnor, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscientists, neurosurgery, Reductionism, Roman Catholics, science, The Immortal Mind, veridical}

Science Without Materialism: Yes, It Would Still Work

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 8, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy of Science

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What if we assume that our minds really are immaterial? Math still adds up, physics and chemistry are still true, logic still works. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
November 12, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, assumptions, Bill Nye, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, cosmos, Daniel Dennett, earth, Jay Richards, materialism, Neil deGrasse Tyson, purposelessness, science, Science Uprising, scientific materialism}

Science Sunday: Is Scientific Materialism the Best Framework for Understanding Reality?

_{Emily Sandico
November 12, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The voices of pop science teach us and our children that "everything, if Darwin is right, is mechanical and blind and purposeless at the bottom." Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 13, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Asphalt Paradox, assumptions, Cambridge University, chemical evolution, Darwinian evolution, Dave Farina, early Earth, experiments, James Tour, John Sutherland, podcast, Probability Paradox, RNA, RNA world, Steven Benner}

Origin of Life: Cambridge Astrochemist Paul Rimmer Analyzes the Tour-Farina Debate

_{Brian Miller
July 13, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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The differing perspectives of Tour and Rimmer result from the differences in their starting assumptions. Read More ›

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Date
April 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, assumptions, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, evidence, intelligent design, models, natural world, optimality, predictions, purpose, Science and Faith in Dialogue, teleology, tools}

Is a New Design-Based Paradigm of Biology Emerging?

_{Science and Culture
April 14, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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Brian Miller reports that optimality is becoming a tool of prediction in biology, with more biologists returning to the use of design-based assumptions. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 7, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Andrei Linde, assumptions, Big Bang, Closer to Truth, cosmic inflation, empirical evidence, Energy, galaxies, intelligent design, Paul Steinhardt, planets, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, scalar field, Scientific American, stars, universe, YouTube videos}

To Avoid a Cosmic Beginning, Physicist Paul Steinhardt Goes to Extraordinary Lengths

_{Brian Miller
November 7, 2022

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Steinhardt is one of the most interesting and influential figures in cosmology. He was one of the original architects of inflationary cosmology. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
April 26, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, assumptions, axioms, bubbles, Charles Darwin, incompleteness theorem, Kurt Gödel, Peter Atkins, scientific materialism, scientism, Stephen Hawking, Theory of Everything, William Lane Craig}

How Materialism Proves Unbounded Scientific Ignorance

_{Robert J. Marks II
April 26, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

4}

There is an infinite number of things that are true that we cannot prove scientifically and never will. Read More ›

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Date
January 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, assumptions, bioRxiv, Darwinian theory, diversification, fossil record, intelligent design, models, phylogenetic tree, phylogeny, University of British Columbia, University of Oregon}

Controversy Arising: Timetrees Unconstrained

_{Science and Culture
January 12, 2021

Evolution

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Two theorists have created a stir in evolutionary circles, claiming that Darwinian phylogeny efforts (tree-building) cannot be constrained to one “best” answer. Read More ›

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Author
Douglas Axe

Date
December 12, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, __k-review, assumptions, chance, Darwinism, deduction, discrete combinatorial objects, evolution, Hans Vodder, Howard Van Till, intelligent design, Michael Behe, organisms, probability, theistic evolution, Undeniable (book)}

Why the Conclusion that Life Is Designed Really Is Inescapable

_{Douglas Axe
December 12, 2018

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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For theists to eschew the claim that life is designed is puzzling, because nothing seems to force them to adopt that counterintuitive stance. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 20, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, assumptions, human beings, human dignity, ID the Future, Ira Berkowitz, Jerusalem, methodological naturalism, Nonsense of a High Order, podcast, Rabbi Moshe Averick, scientific data, scientists, Stephen Hawking}

Scientist as Shaman — Seeing Through the Sham

_{David Klinghoffer
September 20, 2018

Evolution, Philosophy, Technology

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Think, for example, of the late Stephen Hawking and how his fevered pronouncements in his final years were received. Read More ›