Tag: Blaise Pascal

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 24, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, Blaise Pascal, computational power, Denyse O'Leary, interstellar travel, miniaturization, Moore’s law, Mount St. Helens, natural processes, smartphones, video games, weather forecasts, William Shakespeare}

Have We Become Addicted to Change?

_{Eric Hedin
June 24, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

7}

A sci-fi author wrote of spaceship pilots using slide rules to calculate their course corrections while on interstellar journeys! Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 28, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, An Idol for Destruction (series), Arthur C. Clarke, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, Back to the Future, Blaise Pascal, Book of Job, Cambridge University, Darwinian evolution, Dune, Erika DeBenedictis, Ezekiel, Frank Herbert, Garden of Eden, gravity, H.G. Wells, Isaac Barrow, Isaac Newton, Isaiah, large language models, Lucifer, Old Testament, Reformation, Satan, science fiction, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Time Machine, wormholes, Yuval Harari}

Artificial General Intelligence: The Creation Exceeding the Creator

_{William A. Dembski
January 28, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

9}

Is artificial intelligence at a tipping point, with AGI ready to appear in real time? Or is AGI more like many other themes of science fiction? Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
June 5, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atheism, biologists, Blaise Pascal, calculus, David Chalmers, Eucharist, materialism, naturalism, numbers, particles, physicalism, physicists, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, quantum field theory, René Thom, Science After Babel, scientific revolution, scientism, theologians, Tower of Babel, transhumanism, Vishnu}

Science After Babel: An Exercise in Self-Criticism

_{David Berlinski
June 5, 2023

Evolution, Physical Sciences

6}

Until the day before yesterday, the imperial architects of the scientific revolution were well satisfied and sleek as seals. Read More ›

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Date
March 26, 2023

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, Blaise Pascal, C.S. Lewis, ID the Future, Jonathan Swift, literature, Michael D. Aeschliman, podcast, Reductionism, scientism, Stanley L. Jaki, The Restoration of Man, theology}

Aeschliman on Three Great Authors Critiquing Scientism

_{Evolution News
March 26, 2023

Culture, Faith & Science, Philosophy

1}

These include the philosopher Blaise Pascal, who showed that scientific knowledge on its own could never be sufficient for being fully human. Read More ›

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Date
August 4, 2021

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, archaea, bacteria, beauty, Blaise Pascal, Caltech, Current Biology, diatoms, electron microscope, eukaryotes, frustules, Germany, God Hypothesis, Gothic cathedrals, Michael Gross, microbes, Nature by Numbers, Nature Scientific Reports, Poland, purpose}

Diatoms, an Evolutionary Mystery, Come into Nano-Focus

_{Evolution News
August 4, 2021

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

9}

The jewels of the microbial world, when seen with new nano-scale imaging techniques, look like little modernist cathedrals. Read More ›

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
May 1, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheism, Blaise Pascal, Bret Weinstein, Christopher Hitchens, Evergreen State College, human nature, Jonathan Haidt, New Atheists, religion, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, Substack, theists}

Where Steve Meyer Agrees with an Atheist Marxist

_{Elizabeth Whately
May 1, 2021

Faith & Science

5}

The New Atheism is dead, or so maverick writer Freddie deBoer argues. But that doesn’t mean the New Atheists lost. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
March 17, 2021

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, Blaise Pascal, Charles Darwin, Christendom, Claudius, creator, Crime and Punishment, Darwinian theory, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gothic cathedrals, H.G. Wells, Hamlet, intelligent design, John Updike, literature, logical positivism, Marxism, materialism, Middle Ages, narrative, nihilism, pigeons, Pulitzer Prize, sublime, The Time Machine, William Shakespeare}

Intelligent Design and the Restoration of Story

_{Jonathan Witt
March 17, 2021

Arts, Bioethics, Biology, Intelligent Design

11}

Celebrating the growing evidence of intelligent design can help rescue the arts from the nihilism and ugliness they have descended into in many quarters. Read More ›

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Date
October 20, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, Andrew McDiarmid, Blaise Pascal, C.S. Lewis, ID the Future, Jonathan Swift, Michael Aeschliman, podcast, scientific reductionism, scientism, Stanley L. Jaki, The Restoration of Man, theology}

Listen: Aeschliman on Three Great Authors Critiquing Scientism

_{Evolution News
October 20, 2019

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics

1}

Andrew McDiarmid concludes his two-part conversation with Michael Aeschliman. 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, John Donne, 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

4}

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
Mike Keas

Date
January 11, 2019

Categories
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, __k-review, aliens, American Humanist Association, atheism, Bill Nye, Blaise Pascal, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, cosmos, heavens, Humanist of the Year, humanity, Judeo-Christian tradition, Nicolaus Copernicus, planets, Psalms, religion, scientism, Unbelievable, universe}

Myth: A Big Universe Is a Problem for Christianity

_{Mike Keas
January 11, 2019

Physical Sciences, Planetology

4}

Atheists say people in the Western tradition had to wait for modern science to grasp that the universe was huge, and had to shed historic Judeo-Christian views to do so. Read More ›