Tag: Carl Sagan

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 25, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C. S. Lewis, Carl Sagan, Christianity, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Close Encounters: A Better Explanation, Douglas Axe, Duane Gish, evolution, extraterrestrials, Francis Schaeffer, G. K. Chesterton, Henry Morris, Institute for Creation Research, John Warwick Montgomery, My Personal History with Information (series), naturalism, New Age, Pandora’s box, Stephen Meyer, Steven Spielberg, UFOs, University of Illinois, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois Chicago Circle, William Dembski}

My History with Information: Opening Pandora’s Box

_{William A. Dembski
September 25, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Naturalism is like a Pandora’s box in that all of scientific explanation must be kept inside it. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
September 11, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Anne Hathaway, atheists, butterflies, Carl Sagan, cassettes, chomping, dinosaurs, faith, hunger, ice cream truck, intelligence, love, memory, Mesozoic era, movies, Oak Street, physical media, shotgun, solar flare, Stranger Things, T-Rex, The End of Oak Street, villains}

Dinos Meet Carl Sagan and a Marriage on the Rocks

_{Bethel McGrew
September 11, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science

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The family has put together the Big Premise (a solar flare has flung Oak Street back to the Mesozoic era). The dad predicts, “God's not gonna let us die here.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 10, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Carl Sagan, emotion, evolution, explainaway, falsified theories, Georgia Tech, human brain, limbic system, lizard brain, neuroscience, overthinking, Paul D. MacLean, physiology, pop psychology, reptilian brain, Science Daily, smarts, social anxiety, The Dragons of Eden, universe}

Return of the Lizard Brain? It Seems Not

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 10, 2026

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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It’s easy to see why people might latch onto the idea of a reptilian brain as an explainer, or an explainaway, for complex topics. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
July 15, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon Prime, astrophysicists, Bible, Big Bang, birth defects, Carl Sagan, Chelsea Handler Show, churches, community centers, cosmology, Cosmos (series), documentary, evidence, faith, First Cause, human inquiry, ID the Future, Impaulsive, Judeo-Christian tradition, Logan Paul, Mike Majlak, natural disasters, Neil deGrasse Tyson, pestilence, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rotten Tomatoes, schools, scientific community, Stephen Meyer, suffering, The Story of Everything, universe}

Who Pushed the Button? A Question at the Frontier of Human Inquiry

_{Terrell Clemmons
July 15, 2026

Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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While answers may venture beyond the limits of the empirical sciences, that doesn’t mean the sciences don’t offer meaningful information to bear on them. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 7, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ancestors, brain, Carl Sagan, complexity, crows, evolution, fish, flatscreen television, humans, Jack Reacher, limbic system, lizard brain, lizards, mammals, McGill University, neurobiologists, neuroscience, octopuses, Office for Science and Society, onions, ontogeny, pancakes, parrots, Paul D. MacLean, phylogeny, radio, reptile, reptiles, scientific hypotheses}

McGill University Refutes Pop-Psychology Claim that Humans Have a “Lizard Brain”

_{Casey Luskin
July 7, 2026

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience & Mind

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The false belief traces back to the fact that Carl Sagan was one of its strongest proponents. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 6, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animations, archival footage, atheism, Carl Sagan, debate, documentary, Lawrence Krauss, narrator, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, scholars, scientific atheists, scientists, smugness, sound, spokesmen, theism, video}

Meyer, Klavan: The Telltale “Element of Smugness” that’s a Giveaway for Scientific Atheists

_{David Klinghoffer
May 6, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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I bet you could turn the sound off on a video of the well-known scientific atheists and they would be identifiable by the smugness that radiates from them. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 2, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, academics, accident, Ann Gauger, artificial intelligence, atheist scientists, atheists, beauty, Carl Sagan, cosmos, documentary, domino effect, galaxy, Guillermo Gonzalez, interviews, James T. Kirk, Jay Richards, Lawrence Krauss, nanotechnology, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Star Trek, The Privileged Planet, The Story of Everything, universe, William Shatner}

Neil deGrasse Tyson, William Shatner, and Science’s Next Great Frontier

_{Brian Miller
May 2, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

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The implications of such paradigm-altering evidence are well articulated by William Shatner in his interview. Read More ›

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
May 1, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, biologists, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Chronicles, college, Dallas, Dean Kenyon, documentary, Emily Sandico, Georges Lemaître, high school, intelligent design, Karl Marx, Los Angeles, Manhattan, media, reductionist materialism, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, scientific materialists, Seattle, small screen, Southern Methodist University, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything}

The Dallas of Everything: Stephen Meyer’s Completed Pilgrimage

_{John Zmirak
May 1, 2026

Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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No one voice dominates the narration, with specialists who’d been interviewed stepping in to recount the parts of the story with which they’re familiar. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 29, 2026

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, astrophysicists, atheism, Carl Sagan, cosmology, cosmos, expansion rate, fine-tuning, fundamental constants, gravity, initial conditions, intelligent design, Luke Barnes, morality, movies, nuclear force, Sarah Salviander, science fiction, scientific research, stars, The Story of Everything, UC San Diego, universe}

Astrophysicist Sarah Salviander on “Cosmic Signposts” Pointing to Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 29, 2026

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Physics

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Dr. Salviander was deeply influenced by science fiction and by the popular astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Myers III

Date
April 16, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, astronomers, astronomy, Big Bang, Bijan Nemati, carbon, Carl Sagan, Catholic priests, civil engineers, documentary, earth, Edwin Hubble, Energy, explosion, Frank Tipler, Georges Lemaître, heavy elements, iron, Jay Richards, john lennox, mathematical laws, matter, Mount Wilson, oxygen, physicists, physics, planetary science, scientific establishment, solar system, space, stars, stellar evolution, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Grand Design, The Story of Everything, tolerances, universe, universe-creating machine, Voyager 1}

Are We at Another Lemaître Moment? Cosmological Evidence Suggests So

_{Walter Myers III
April 16, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

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The universe is not large in spite of us — it is large, in part, because of what it takes to produce us. Read More ›