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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
June 30, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", agency, Aristotle, biologists, Charles Darwin, chemistry, complexity, emergence, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, flowers, function, G. H. Lewes, ime's Second Arrow, improbability, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, language, Life Itself, machines, materialists, mechanism, metaphysics, Michael Behe, Michael Polanyi, Michael Wong, natural selection, naturalism, organisms, physics, probability, purpose, RNA, Robert Hazen, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, Second Law of Thermodynamics, specified irreducible complexity, telos, Thomas Jefferson, Time's Second Arrow}

Misinterpreting Teleology: Another Attempt to Salvage Materialism

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 30, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It’s a “self-evident truth,” as Thomas Jefferson, an early ID proponent himself, might have put it: organisms necessarily exist by virtue of purpose. Read More ›

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Author
Tova Levengood

Date
May 27, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AuthorROI.com, authors, biology, books, Center for Science and Culture, chemistry, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, Discovery Society, earth sciences, editors, edits, faith and science, intelligent design, Intelligent Design and Evolution in a Nutshell, library, marketing, mathematics, money, publishers, readers, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science and Culture Today, Seattle, self-publishing, Smith Tower, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, The Design Inference, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, Unsolicited Books, Vladmir Nabokov}

I Want to Write a Book About Intelligent Design. What Should I Do?

_{Tova Levengood
May 27, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The books that filled these shelves, arranged in no special order, came from anywhere and everywhere around the globe. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
May 26, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, affirmers, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alister McGrath, atheism, Atlantic Ocean, chance, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, chemistry, Darwinian theism, Darwinian theists, deniers, Edward Aveling, Francis Darwin, Francis Ellingwood Abbot, HMS Beagle, intelligent evolution, Karl Giberson, Kenneth Miller, Ludwig Büchner, Maurice Mandelbaum, National Secular Society, natural selection, nature, physics, Plinian Society, religion, Robert Edmond Grant, terminology, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, The Index, theistic evolutionists, Unitarians, University of Edinburgh, William Darwin}

Darwin’s Atheism: Historical Support and a Question of Terminology

_{Michael Flannery
May 26, 2026

Faith & Science, History of Science

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Calling Gibberson, Miller, McGrath, and others theistic evolutionists is inaccurate because it fails to distinguish them from genuinely theistic evolutionists. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 24, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, articles, books, chemistry, fine-tuning, Geraint F. Lewis, ID the Future, information processing, intelligent design, Luke Barnes, multiverse, Peter S. Williams, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roberto Fumagalli, Stephen Meyer, universe, videos}

Defending Fine-Tuning: How to Respond to 20 Common Objections

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 24, 2026

Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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Scientists have discovered a whole suite of parameters and initial conditions appear to be exquisitely tuned to allow for complex life to exist. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
April 15, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Philosophy of Science
Physics
Tagged
, chemistry, cosmology, God’s Not Dead, gravity, intelligent design, john lennox, Kevin Sorbo, Leonard Mlodinow, Oxford University, philosophy, philosophy of science, physics, showtimes, Singularity, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Grand Design, theaters}

What Grand Design? On Stephen Hawking’s Loophole

_{Terrell Clemmons
April 15, 2026

Cosmology, Philosophy of Science, Physics

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In their 2010 book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow set out to answer a big question. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 6, 2026

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, astrophysicists, atheism, atheists, beauty, biology, biology class, chemistry, Christopher Hitchens, cosmic design, cosmology, DNA, documentary, Doug Wilson, fine-tuning, fingerprints, galaxy, immaterial genome, information, intelligent design, intimacy, life, living cell, machinery, materialist paradigm, mind of God, nature, physical constants, physics, Plato's Revenge, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Sternberg, Sarah Salviander, scientific experts, stars, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, Timothy McGrew, universe}

Between Life and the Cosmos, Which Provides Better Evidence for Design?

_{David Klinghoffer
April 6, 2026

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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Caught on video in the back of a car, in which he was riding with pastor Doug Wilson, Christopher Hitchens said this about himself and his fellow atheists. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 6, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, advanced life, Australia, beginning, biologists, biology, chemistry, cosmos, creation, Fred Hoyle, galaxy, human life, intelligence at the, light, matter, Michael Denton, natural backdrops, oxygen, physiology, scientists, Secrets of the Human Body, universe, water}

Denton: Properties of Oxygen, Water, Light Were “Envisaged” for Us at the Very Beginning

_{David Klinghoffer
April 6, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

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Biologist Michael Denton takes a long view — the longest view imaginable in our universe. Read More ›

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Date
March 18, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Physics
Tagged
, biology, chemistry, comets, documentaries, Eric Esau, evidence, faith and science, fine-tuning, Fred Hoyle, galaxy, Goldilocks, Isaac Newton, movies, New York Times, Oxford University, physical laws, physical parameters, physics, planets, Return of the God Hypothesis, simulation theory, Stephen Meyer, sun, The Story of Everything, tickets, Timothy McGrew, Tulane University, UC San Diego, universe, University of Pittsburgh}

A Goldilocks Universe, Designed for Us: New Film in Theaters on April 30

_{Science & Culture
March 18, 2026

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Physics

4}

As philosopher Timothy McGrew puts it, we live in a universe “bearing everywhere the fingerprints of its Creator.” Read More ›

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Date
March 4, 2026

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, accidents, Ben Shapiro, Bible, biologists, biology, Center for Science and Culture, chemistry, cosmology, creationism, Eric Esau, film, intelligent design, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, materialist world view, matter, meaning, media, mind, movies, natural selection, Nobel laureates, philosophy, Piers Morgan, religion, science, scientific discoveries, scientific revolution, scientists, significance, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, theology, ultimate meaning, universe}

God Hypothesis Comes to Theaters Nationally in April!

_{Science & Culture
March 4, 2026

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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The film features a diverse range of scientists, some familiar to those who follow the work of the Center for Science and Culture, but others very much not. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
February 27, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, Andrew Loke, Bayesian reasoning, Boltzmann brains, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, chemistry, Chris Smeenk, cosmology, fine-tuning, fine-tuning argument, Ian Hacking, Ken Olum, Kenny Boyce, loop quantum cosmology, Luke Barnes, naturalism, nuclear physics, Philip Swenson, philosophers, Porter Williams, quantum mechanics, Roger White, Sean Carroll, stellar structure, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism}

Fine-Tuning and the Infinite Multiverse

_{Bruce Gordon
February 27, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

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An endless multiverse is a context in which every outcome occurs infinitely many times, rendering calculations of probability ill-defined. Read More ›