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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 16, 2024

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), Bertrand Russell, bias, C.S. Lewis, causation, Darwinian evolution, determinism, Enlightenment, evolution, free will, George Orwell, J.P. Moreland, libertarian free will, logic, Miracles (book), North Korea, rigor, The Conversation, The Design Inference, theists, thought police, Trinity College Dublin, United Nations, William A. Dembski, William Provine, Winston Ewert, Woodrow Wilson}

Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized

_{David Coppedge
January 16, 2024

Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Freedom

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An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 21, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Aristotle, body, causation, Christianity, DNA, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, mind, Nicolaus Copernicus, Pierre-Simon Laplace, proteins, René Descartes, ribosomes, science of purpose, scientism, soul, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Aquinas, William A. Dembski}

To Understand Nature’s Intentionality, We Must Go Back to the Future

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 21, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It required the truly inimitable intellect of Aquinas to Christianize and modernize what Aristotle had said 1,600 years before him. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 21, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, causation, common descent, Darwinism, evolution, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, John West, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, Michael Flannery, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Neoplatonism, principle of utility, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, teleology, The Edge of Evolution, The World of Life, theology}

Intelligent Design and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution — Different Yet the Same

_{Michael Flannery
November 21, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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If any modern ID proponent fits the Wallacean model it is biologist Michael Behe. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 6, 2023

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, amino acids, Aristotle, arthritis, body, causation, chirality, documentary, final cause, Francis Bacon, free will, Johns Hopkins University, libertarian free will, material cause, matter, mind, neuroscience, quantum mechanics, sculptor, sculpture, Sean Carroll, trailer}

Sean Carroll: “How Could an Immaterial Mind Affect the Body?”

_{Michael Egnor
March 6, 2023

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Aristotle noted that when we think carefully about natural causes we see that there are four distinct ways that causes can lead to effects in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
February 24, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, autopsy, brain, causation, death, extracellular matrix, Foresight (book), heart, innovation, intelligent design, Marcos Eberlin, medicine, Neo-Darwinism, New Scientist, Steve Laufmann, Your Designed Body}

Scientists Discover a “New” Fourth (Meningeal) Membrane Surrounding the Brain

_{Howard Glicksman
February 24, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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When it comes to causation, there are only two classes of causal forces; those are material causes and intelligent causes. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 15, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Sociology
Tagged
, Big Government, blacks, causation, Charles Darwin, correlation, Darwinian racism, elitism, evolution, evolutionists, human evolution, intellectuals, Racism, scientific racism, white nationalists}

Does Disbelief in Human Evolution Foment Racism?

_{Richard Weikart
April 15, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Sociology

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This study does not provide an adequate explanation as to why belief in evolution would cause one to be less racist. Indeed, the logic seems backwards. Read More ›

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Date
February 20, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, blasphemy, causation, Christians, designer, Guillermo Gonzalez, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jay Richards, Jews, Muslims, natural world, The Privileged Planet, theology}

Is ID Bad Theology? No, but the Objection Is

_{Science & Culture
February 20, 2021

Faith & Science, Philosophy

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Mark Vernon has mistaken a narrow deism for theism and then charged theists with blasphemy for considering God free to act within the created order. Read More ›

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Date
October 24, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, causation, ID the Future, materialism, Michael Denton, origins science, podcast, Privileged Species, Reductionism}

In Biological Origins, Bottom-Up or Top-Down Causation?

_{Science & Culture
October 24, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Michael Denton says that the evidence has been growing for top-down causation, which poses a challenge to reductionist and materialistic origins science. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 22, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, accident, Aristotle, atheism, causation, cellular metabolism, chance, complexity, Darwinism, deism, evolution, Fifth Way, final cause, Five Ways, intelligent design, material cause, natural science, nature, order, patterns, purpose, specification, teleology, Thomas Aquinas, watchmaker}

Aquinas’ Fifth Way: The Proof from Specification

_{Michael Egnor
October 22, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics

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What’s remarkable in nature is not so much that nature follows complex patterns, but that it follows any pattern at all. Read More ›

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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 ›