Tag: Blaise Pascal

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
April 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Blaise Pascal, COVID-19, Darwinism, epidemiologists, experts, global cooling, global warming, Great Barrington Declaration, House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, intelligent design, J. Budziszewski, Jonathan Haidt, journalists, medical professionals, Pandemic of Lunacy, People for the American Way, political debates, psychologist, schools, scientists, University of Texas at Austin, workplaces}

Questioning the Science Experts: Is It Even Permitted?

_{Terrell Clemmons
April 9, 2026

Evolution, Medicine, Scientific Reasoning

9}

If you're trying to do ID science, it's a little bit easier to be intellectually honest, because you have to work harder to make the case for your claim. Read More ›

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Author
Douglas Groothuis

Date
March 26, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Political Science
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, authoritarianism, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, biographers, Blaise Pascal, Buddhism, C. S. Lewis, caste system, Christian philosophy, Christianity, Declaration of Independence, Deists, Elon Musk, endowed by our creator, evolution, First Amendment, Founders, Founding, French Revolution, guillotine, happiness, Hinduism, humans, image of God, infidels, Islam, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, Leonardo da Vinci, philosophy, sanctity of life, Second Treatise on Government, social contract theory, St. Augustine, Steve Jobs, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, The Social Contract, theism, theology, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Jefferson, Unitarians, universal human rights, utopianism, Walter Isaacson, worldview}

In Explicating the “Greatest Sentence,” New Book Falls Short

_{Douglas Groothuis
March 26, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy, Political Science

7}

No naturalistic account of human life, rooted in Darwin’s purposeless evolution, has reason to account humans as special in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 24, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, Blaise Pascal, computational power, Denyse O'Leary, miniaturization, Moore’s law, Mount St. Helens, natural processes, smartphones, 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, Blaise Pascal, Book of Job, Cambridge University, Darwinian evolution, Erika DeBenedictis, Garden of Eden, gravity, H.G. Wells, Isaac Newton, Isaiah, large language models, Old Testament, Reformation, Satan, science fiction, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Time Machine, 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, René Thom, Science After Babel, scientific revolution, scientism, theologians, Tower of Babel, transhumanism}

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, podcast, Reductionism, scientism, The Restoration of Man, theology}

Aeschliman on Three Great Authors Critiquing Scientism

_{Science & Culture
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, Germany, God Hypothesis, Gothic cathedrals, Michael Gross, microbes, Nature Scientific Reports, Poland, purpose}

Diatoms, an Evolutionary Mystery, Come into Nano-Focus

_{Science & Culture
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
Bethel McGrew

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

_{Bethel McGrew
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, creator, Darwinian theory, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gothic cathedrals, H.G. Wells, Hamlet, intelligent design, literature, logical positivism, Marxism, materialism, Middle Ages, narrative, nihilism, pigeons, Pulitzer Prize, 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, The Restoration of Man, theology}

Listen: Aeschliman on Three Great Authors Critiquing Scientism

_{Science & Culture
October 20, 2019

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics

1}

Andrew McDiarmid concludes his two-part conversation with Michael Aeschliman. Read More ›