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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 15, 2019

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, act, Big Bang, causation, change, existence, Five Ways, law of non-contradiction, logic, Moon, potency, sun, Thomas Aquinas}

Aquinas’ Third Way: An Analogy to Moonlight

_{Michael Egnor
October 15, 2019

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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Imagine that you are an astronomer on a world with one moon. It is always night on your world, and the moon is the only body in the sky. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 9, 2019

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, Big Bang, Brian Josephson, Canadians, Charles Townes, intelligent design, Kevin Williamson, National Review, Nobel Prize, physical existence, Princeton University, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Wall Street Journal}

Physics Nobel Prize Invites Snark from the Anti-ID Peanut Gallery

_{David Klinghoffer
October 9, 2019

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Insofar as Peebles’s work helps to strengthen the evidence for a cosmic beginning, it is actually part of the argument for intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 4, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, act, Aquinas.design, Aristotle, Big Bang, change, Five Ways, general relativity, law of non-contradiction, photosynthesis, potency, Prime Mover, quantum mechanics, Summa Contra Gentiles, Thomas Aquinas}

Aquinas’ First Way and a Stack of Books

_{Michael Egnor
October 4, 2019

Faith & Science

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Nature is like a stack of books, sessile, until moved. Read More ›

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Author
James Le Fanu

Date
September 9, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Tagged
, __edited, Big Bang, Boeing 747, C.S. Lewis, cells, chemical elements, double helix, earth, electromagnetism, fly, Fred Hoyle, geneticists, gravity, Harvard University, humanities, John Polkinghorne, man, mouse, neuroscientists, Nobel Prize, plate tectonics, Sapientia, science, scientism, solar system, speed of light, tornado, universe, William Provine, World War II}

Between Sapientia and Scientia — Michael Aeschliman’s Profound Interpretation

_{James Le Fanu
September 9, 2019

Bioethics, Biology

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Science, the dominant way of knowing of our age, now finds itself caught between a rock and (very) hard place. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 19, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Psychology
Tagged
, __edited, Big Bang, brain, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Finding Darwin's God, Francis Collins, Human Zoos, Kenneth Miller, mental illness, metaphysical naturalism, methodological naturalism, National Institutes of Health, North American Teilhard Society, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, psychiatry, Theodosius Dobzhansky}

What’s at Stake in the Debate over Darwinism?

_{Robert Shedinger
August 19, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Psychology

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We know that Darwinian evolution has a long and sordid history of entanglement with issues of race, racism, and eugenics. Read More ›

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Date
August 10, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Beatris Rusu, Big Bang, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, fossil record, ID the Future, podcast, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars}

Listen: Stephen Meyer on His CSC Summer Seminar Talks

_{Science & Culture
August 10, 2019

Intelligent Design

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One talk focused on the fossil record, and the other on the Big Bang. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 2, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __edited, abortion, Big Bang, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, culture, Darwinists, euthanasia, Frank Tipler, government funding, history, human life, infanticide, materialism, Richard Weikart, Singularity, The Death of Humanity}

An “Impersonal Universe” and Its Consequences

_{David Klinghoffer
July 2, 2019

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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Physicist Frank Tipler, as I noted earlier today, provocatively personalizes the Singularity, the beginning point or moment from which the universe burst forth. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 2, 2019

Categories
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, Big Bang, cosmic fine-tuning, Frank Tipler, intelligent design, physical reality, prejudice, Singularity, supernatural, Tulane University, universe}

What — Or Who? — Is the Singularity?

_{David Klinghoffer
July 2, 2019

Physical Sciences, Physics

2}

I had thought of the Singularity as an event, to which the universe — physical reality — traces back at the moment of the Big Bang. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 1, 2019

Categories
Astronomy
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Big Bang, Bijan Nemati, Blaise Pascal, cosmic fine-tuning, earth, heavens, humans, intelligent design, Milky Way, Moon, planets, religion, Science Uprising, stars, Wall Street Journal}

The Empty Heavens — Two Ways to Look at It

_{David Klinghoffer
July 1, 2019

Astronomy, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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Adam Kirsch over the weekend had a thoughtful essay in the Wall Street Journal, meditating on the coming 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 21, 2019

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Tagged
, __k-review, Big Bang, Charles Darwin, common descent, creationism, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, divine image, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, Homo erectus, human origins, humans, intelligent design, John Derbyshire, materialism, Neanderthals, Race Realism, Racism, savages, soul, subhumans, The Descent of Man, Walter Bradley Center}

Why Darwinism Can Never Separate Itself from Racism

_{David Klinghoffer
May 21, 2019

Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics

5}

You think if Darwinian theory had emerged not in the dark age of the 19th century but in our own woke era, it would be different? No, it wouldn’t. Read More ›