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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
March 6, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Adam Frank, Arthropoda, biosphere, eukaryotes, evolution, intelligent life, Jacques Monod, life, probability, Richard Dawkins, The Design Inference, Tree of Life, universal common descent, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

A Good Example of Evolutionary Use of Extremely Small Probability Singularities

_{Paul Nelson
March 6, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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How can you be certain, for instance, that you, horned lizards, and brook trout share a common chordate ancestor? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, algae, atmosphere, bacteria, biosphere, carbon, cells, cellular metabolism, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Greenland, heme, hydrogen, intelligent design, Michael Denton, neurons, nitrogen, nucleic acids, oxygen, phosphorus, PLOS ONE, Privileged Species, rare earth elements, supply chain, termites, The Miracle of Man, University of Pennsylvania, vitamin B12}

How the Earth Operates Supply Chains for Life

_{David Coppedge
February 27, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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It’s no help having essential elements in the Earth’s crust if they can’t get to the organisms that need them. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
September 16, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Physics
Science
Tagged
, bees, biosphere, birds, goal, gymnosperms, honey, intelligent design, natural phenomena, organisms, pollen, prey, purpose, ruminants, salmon, science of purpose, snakes, wolves}

Defining the “Science of Purpose”

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
September 16, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Physics, Science

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The "science of purpose" is new to the analytic framework, and is thus obliged to make the case for its claim to validity. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 7, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Amazonia, biosphere, Cambrian Explosion, carbon, chlorophyll, Goldilocks Zone, Hunga-Tonga volcano, intelligent design, Michael Denton, Nature (journal), Nature Scientific Reports, nitrogen, oxygen theory, Paleozoic, phosphorus, phytoplankton, prior fitness, supply chain, vertebrates, volcanoes}

Is There Enough Phosphorus for Us?

_{David Coppedge
September 7, 2022

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The element phosphorus, on which life heavily depends for its codes and metabolic processes, is a limiting factor for complex beings on habitable planets. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 10, 2022

Categories
Life Sciences
Science
Tagged
, angiosperms, biosphere, carbon, copper, earthworms, eggs, erosion, flowering plants, grass, grasses, intelligent design, iron, magnesium, maize, meat, Michael Denton, prior fitness, Privileged Species, Science (journal), zinc}

Biology Helps Us Understand the Blessing of Grasses

_{David Coppedge
August 10, 2022

Life Sciences, Science

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Don’t walk on the grass, that “often undervalued” form of life, without looking down. It’s amazing down there. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 5, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, asteroid, Big Bang, Big Think, biosphere, Cambrian Explosion, complex life, cosmos, Dartmouth College, dinosaurs, Ernst Mayr, fire, Günter Bechly, humans, intelligent design, life, Marcelo Gleiser, Michael Denton, prior fitness, providence, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, teleology, The Miracle of Man, Theistic Evolution (book), Thomas Huxley}

Recognizing Providence in the History of Life Is a Hint About Our Own Lives

_{David Klinghoffer
August 5, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics, Technology

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Any of us can point to certain pivotal events in our past that need not have occurred, but did. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 21, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, beetles, biosphere, Coleoptera, foresight, Lepidoptera, Michael Denton, microbes, plastics, pollution, polymers, potassium, The Miracle of Man, UC Riverside, University of Queensland}

Foresight in the Biosphere: Lowly Organisms Help Rescue the Planet from Pollution

_{David Coppedge
July 21, 2022

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Need technology to fight the effects of technology? Look instead to living things that already have solutions. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Aristotle, biosphere, Charles Lyell, Democritus, Empedocles, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Georges Cuvier, Greece, Homo sapiens, intelligent design, Joseph Hooker, Loren Eiseley, materialism, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, pigeons, Rome, Royal Society, Samuel Haughton, Thomas Malthus, Victorian England, Whitwell Elwin}

Meet Samuel Haughton, Darwin’s First Scientific Critic

_{Neil Thomas
June 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwin reports Haughton’s verdict as having been that “all that was new in there was false, and what was true was old.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 7, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, Antoine Lavoisier, biosphere, Charles Darwin, David Hume, Epicurus, evolution, Lawrence Krauss, Lucretius, natural selection, neologisms, Peter Atkins, Stephen Hawking, universe, Victorians, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science

_{Neil Thomas
April 7, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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One might, with Darwin, theorize that the development of the biosphere was simply down to that empirically unattested variant of chance, "natural selection." Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
December 16, 2021

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", adaptation, animals, behavior, biosphere, blind evolution, brown bears, Charles Darwin, convergence, dysteleology, evolution, homology, intelligent design, junk DNA, Life Sciences, microevolution, polar bears, Systems Biology, The Design Revolution, vestigial structures, William A. Dembski, William Paley}

Complex Programmed Behaviors — Intelligently Designed

_{Eric Cassell
December 16, 2021

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Some discriminators don’t get us very far in deciding which is the better explanation between blind evolution and intelligent design. Read More ›