Tag: beauty

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Author
Kyle Dillon

Date
July 23, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaequatio intellectus ad pulchrum, aesthetic judgments, Anthony O’Hear, beauty, Boethius, C. S. Lewis, chemistry, classical Christian education, Douglas fir trees, education, evergreen forests, Fibonacci sequence, Johannes Kepler, John Frame, Junius Johnson, Kevin Clark, natural philosophy, old books, On the Incarnation, Pacific Northwest, physics, prayer, Ravi Jain, remembering, Roman philosophers, Science and Beauty (series), St. Athanasius, stem, Surprised by Joy, The Father of Lights, The Liberal Arts Tradition, The Weight of Glory, Third Law of Planetary Motion, Thomas Aquinas, universe, Western redcedars}

Physical Beauty, Mathematical Beauty, Scientific Beauty

_{Rev. Kyle A. Dillon
July 23, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Fifteen centuries ago, when he was falsely accused of treason, exiled from his home, and awaiting his execution, Boethius consoled himself with those words. Read More ›

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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

8}

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
Kyle Dillon

Date
July 21, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaequatio intellectus ad pulchrum, adaequatio intellectus ad rem, Alvin Plantinga, Artemis II, astronomers, astronomy, beauty, Emmanuel Kant, First Law of Planetary Motion, geocentric model, Harmonice Mundi, Harmonies of the World, heliocentric model, Henri Poincaré, Holy Grail, Johannes Kepler, Justice Potter Stewart, mathematical formulas, Mortimer Adler, NASA, Nicolaus Copernicus, science, Science and Beauty (series), scientific revolution, Supreme Court, theology, Thomas Aquinas, universe, Where the Conflict Really Lies}

Beauty and Science: Canvas of the Great Creator

_{Rev. Kyle A. Dillon
July 21, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

8}

When Johannes Kepler discovered that his mathematical formula perfectly matched his experimental observations, he was euphoric. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 26, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon Prime, Aristotle, Asa Gray, beauty, beauty problem, Charles Darwin, consciousness, cosmos, David Berlinski, Design Inference, documentary, Douglas Axe, flowers, Francis Crick, George MacDonald, George Steiner, Heraclitus, materialism, ocellus, Parts of Animals, peacock, peacock’s tail, peahen, planets, Richard Sternberg, Robert Sheldon, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sarah Salviander, sexual selection, solar system, stars, Stephen Meyer, Stratford Caldecott, The Descent of Man, The Flower-Angels, The Story of Everything, Timothy McGrew}

The Beauty Enigma: It “Seems to Be Reaching Out to Us”

_{David Klinghoffer
June 26, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

5}

The beauty of the cosmos and of nature generally can't be explained in materialist terms. Or more positively, they prompt an inference to design. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 22, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon Prime, artificial intelligence, atheists, beauty, Canada, car crash, Catholic Herald, certainty, Christians, DNA, documentary, double helix, earth, faith and science, Francis Crick, Great Britain, human beings, Iain McGilchrist, intelligent design, James Watson, Mexico, Peter Stanford, Pope Leo XIV, psychiatrists, religion, scientists, Spain, survival, The Story of Everything, The Telegraph, United Kingdom, United States}

An Unusual Story of Everything Review from the UK

_{David Klinghoffer
June 22, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Senior features writer Peter Stanford at The Telegraph seems excited about the documentary almost despite himself. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
May 13, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheists, beauty, Chartres Cathedral, Christians, Christopher Hitchens, creator, David Berlinski, Discovery Institute, DNA, fine-tuning, fish, Francis Crick, God Is Not Great, gratuitous beauty, humans, intelligent design, James Joyce, ocean, philosophers, photography, quietness, religious believers, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Sternberg, Rod Dreher, Stephen Meyer, survival, The Story of Everything, theaters, universe, Whittaker Chambers, womb}

Under Aesthetic Arrest: Even an Atheist Might Stop and Think

_{Bethel McGrew
May 13, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

5}

Humans are the only creatures with a capacity for appreciating beauty beyond a rudimentary attraction to something eye-catching, shiny, or colorful. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 9, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, animations, Bayesian reasoning, beauty, cabin, cosmos, errors, evidence, forest, genetic code, intelligent design, intentional design, logic of surprise, mathematics, matter, mind, order, Return of the God Hypothesis, software, The Story of Everything, universe, woods}

Using the Logic of Surprise to Infer Cosmic Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 9, 2026

Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

3}

On a hike, you stumble upon a seemingly abandoned cabin in the woods. When you walk in, you notice a steaming cup of tea sitting on the table. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 2, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, academics, accident, Ann Gauger, artificial intelligence, atheist scientists, atheists, beauty, Carl Sagan, cosmos, documentary, domino effect, galaxy, Guillermo Gonzalez, interviews, James T. Kirk, Jay Richards, Lawrence Krauss, nanotechnology, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Star Trek, The Privileged Planet, The Story of Everything, universe, William Shatner}

Neil deGrasse Tyson, William Shatner, and Science’s Next Great Frontier

_{Brian Miller
May 2, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

5}

The implications of such paradigm-altering evidence are well articulated by William Shatner in his interview. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Myers III

Date
April 30, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aristotle, automobiles, beauty, biology, Cambrian Explosion, Darwinian theory, DNA, documentary, double helix, embryonic development, fossil record, Francis Crick, gibberish, gratuitous beauty, human beings, information, intelligent design, intention, living cell, Michael Behe, mind, mutations, peacock, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Sternberg, scholarship, science, skyscrapers, smartphones, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, undirected processes}

The Story to Which Biology, Considered Honestly, Must Lead

_{Walter Myers III
April 30, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

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Perhaps the most arresting challenge to the materialist account of life is one that cannot be quantified at all. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
April 24, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, animals, atheists, beauty, bees, Bethel McGrew, birdsong, cats, cosmos, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, dust, evolution, flowers, intelligent design, light, materialistic narrative, mountain peak, nature, pale blue dot, prince, princess, sunset, symphony, The Story of Everything, tulips, Wall Street Journal}

Humans as “Beloved”: A Signature of Intelligent Design

_{Eric Hedin
April 24, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

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A few minor shifts in how light interacts with matter and our sense of sight would be dulled to most of the visual beauty that we most appreciate in nature. Read More ›