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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 1, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon, beauty, engineers, fungi, intelligent design, nature, origami, Science (journal), Stanford University, Tanzania, The New Yorker}

Scientist Discovers a Protist’s “Cellular Origami” — The First Known Case

_{Daniel Witt
July 1, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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You will probably not be surprised to hear that Dr. Prakash is an engineer as well as a biologist. This is predictable. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 12, 2024

Categories
Astronomy
Evolutionary Psychology
Faith & Science
Geophysics
Intelligent Design
Rare Earth
Tagged
, Africa, ancestors, Ann Gauger, atmosphere, beauty, Brian Miller, carbon, earth, electrons, Emily Sandico, evolutionary biology, geophysics, helium, hydrogen, iPhone, iron, Joe Biden, Judeo-Christian tradition, junk DNA, magnesium, magnetic field, materialists, nitrogen, oxygen, paleomagnetism, PhD, radiation, Seattle, solar system, South Africa, Wikipedia}

In Aurora Borealis, Scientific and Aesthetic Design Arguments Meet

_{Casey Luskin
May 12, 2024

Astronomy, Evolutionary Psychology, Faith & Science, Geophysics, Intelligent Design, Rare Earth

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You appreciate the aurora borealis or aurora australis because you were not created by strictly material evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
December 14, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, beauty, brain, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, creation, design, Epicureans, human eye, intelligent design, modern life, natural world, Plato, Platonism, randomness, scientific truth, theology, Wheaton College}

For Advent, Reading St. Athanasius on the Beauty of the Universe

_{Peter Biles
December 14, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Besides the prose itself being so pleasing to read, these thoughts reaffirm some of my main reasons for believing this universe is the product of a Mind. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 8, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, beauty, Brian Miller, co-option, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian evolution, Emily Reeves, evolution, exaptation, hammer, Howard Berg, intelligent agency, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, mousetrap, natural selection, proteins, Religions (journal), Rope Kojonen, serendipity, Stephen Dilley, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series)}

Want to Harmonize Evolution and Design? Consider the Bacterial Flagellum

_{Casey Luskin
December 8, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I hope it’s clear that Kojonen’s effort to harmonize evolution and design (as he envisions it) is not so easy in the case of the bacterial flagellum. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
December 6, 2023

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, An Introduction to Systems Biology, beauty, biography, Brazil, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, Discovery Institute, Emily Reeves, evolution, intelligent design, intelligibility, John Milton, natural selection, nature, Scientific Dissent From Darwinism, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, Systems Biology, Texas A&M, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, understanding, Uri Alon, William Shakespeare, wonder}

Nature’s Wonder — A Tale of Two Scientists

_{Stephen Dilley
December 6, 2023

Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Charles Darwin described an atrophied sensitivity to “grandeur” that he noted in himself. Read More ›

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Date
November 30, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, agnostics, Alfred Russel Wallace, angels, beauty, cells, Charles Darwin, Darwinians, evolution, gods, human race, intelligence, intelligent beings, intelligent design, materialism, materialists, Michael Flannery, mind, nature, Nature's Prophet, power, purpose, universe, veins, Victorians}

New Thoughts on Evolution: Views of Professor Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., F.R.S.

_{Science & Culture
November 30, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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"The scales on the wings of a moth," he said quietly, "have no explanation in Evolution. They belong to Beauty, and Beauty is a spiritual mystery." Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 29, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, beauty, Center for Science and Culture, culture, David Klinghoffer, evolution, Evolution News, families, goodness, gratitude, happiness, health, human thriving, ID the Future, materialism, reality, relativism, truth}

Why Scientific Materialism Is No Match for Truth, Beauty, and Goodness

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 29, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

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These abstract concepts don’t derive from the material world, yet we feel impoverished without them; they’re foundations of a life worth living. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
October 16, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, beauty, biochemical systems, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, complexity, David Klinghoffer, divine image, evil, food, free choice, George Ellis, good, humans, information, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, laws of nature, life after death, lifespan, living cell, nuclear weapons, Templeton Prize, universe}

Nature Reflects an Intelligent Design — But Also a Moral One

_{Eric Hedin
October 16, 2023

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

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Human beings must have freedom of choice if our actions are to have any meaning beyond the impersonal and predictable outcomes governed by the laws of physics. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animal breeding, architect, beauty, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, evolution, intelligent evolution, Jerry Fodor, Joseph Hooker, Man’s Place in the Universe, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, Sarawak Law, sexual selection, teleology, teleonomy, The World of Life, William Paley, William Whewell}

For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology

_{Michael Flannery
September 12, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Charles Darwin always recognized to some extent the problem of removing all vestiges of intelligent causation from evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 28, 2023

Categories
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), beauty, Christianity, Florida, George Orwell, Germany, James B. Meigs, Nazis, Politics, religion, Soviet Union, textbooks, United States}

War on Math Becomes a Fight Over Textbooks

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 28, 2023

Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Freedom

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At some point, it might be reasonable to ask, why is religion forbidden while politics is allowed to invade everything? Read More ›