Tag: Contact (novel)

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 28, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Carl Sagan, Communism, Contact (novel), Darwinism, En Arche Foundation, evolution, Grzegorz Malec, intelligence, intelligent design, Michael Behe, Michael Ruse, Nazism, Nicolaus Copernicus, Poland, Polish, pride, prime numbers, progressivism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Sternberg, SETI, Stephen Jay Gould, Western civilization}

Poland’s Intelligent Design Revolution

_{William A. Dembski
May 28, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

16}

While Isaac Newton is universally regarded as the greatest physicist of all time, it is to the Pole Copernicus that we credit the rise of modern science. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 6, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, Arthur C. Clarke, Chinese, Claude Shannon, Contact (novel), demiurge, Dubai, English, etymology, Hamlet, Hebrew, information, inkblot, intelligence, intelligent cause, intelligent design, Kolmogorov information, Kraft inequality, Ludwig Wittgenstein, marbles, Moses, Plato, probabilistic resources, probability, rock, SETI, Shannon information, specification, specified complexity, Stone Age, The Design Inference, Timaeus, William Shakespeare}

Why Specified Complexity Is Key to Detecting Design

_{William A. Dembski
May 6, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

30}

In plain English here is what specified complexity is and why it is able to detect design. Read More ›

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post

Author
Marvin Olasky

Date
December 14, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, advanced life, aliens, astronomers, atheism, bacteria, Bible, capillary action, Carl Sagan, Contact (novel), cosmic microwave background radiation, creation, deaths, faith, galaxies, Goldilocks, history, human genome, hydrogen, Ivy League, Joseph Stalin, miracles, Super Bowl, surface tension, theoretical physics, universe, Zeeya Merali}

A Miraculous Existence

_{Marvin Olasky
December 14, 2022

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

4}

Zeeya Merali asks a good question: If God desired to send us a message, how would He do it? Read More ›

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post

Date
July 12, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, agnosticism, atheism, Carl Sagan, Contact (novel), Design Inference, DNA, extra-terrestrial intelligence, Gifford lectures, ID the Future, intelligent design, Paul Nelson, podcast, radio signals, science fiction, theism}

Carl Sagan’s Love/Hate Relationship with Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
July 12, 2022

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

2}

Philosopher of science Paul Nelson explores an intriguing tension in the thinking of the famous scientist and science popularizer. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
June 14, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, 1 Corinthians, Arthur C. Clarke, Carl Sagan, Contact (novel), design detection, earth, Fred Hoyle, intelligent design, intelligent life, John Leslie, life, Michael Behe, National Academy of Sciences, naturalism, religion, Richard Dawkins, Science, solar system, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, theology, William A. Dembski}

Carl Sagan: “An Intelligence That Antedates the Universe”

_{Paul Nelson
June 14, 2022

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

6}

It’s the evidence from Sagan’s fiction and other popular writing that is especially provocative. Read More ›

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Date
March 30, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Carl Sagan, Contact (novel), Cosmos Magazine, electromagnetism, extraterrestrials, Fibonacci sequence, fine structure constant, Golden Ratio, intelligent design, Paul Davies, pi, Planck’s constant, quantum mechanics, relativity, Richard Feynman, University of Nottingham, Wolfgang Pauli}

Unexplained — Maybe Unexplainable — Numbers Control the Universe

_{Science and Culture
March 30, 2022

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

4}

Richard Feynman called 1/137, the fine structure constant, “a magic number that comes to us with no understanding by man.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 18, 2016

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, __nedited, ad hoc hypotheses, alien intelligence, Contact (novel), Extra-Terrestrial Life, extraterrestrial intelligence, laws of physics, Privileged Species}

Alien Physics: Scientist Offers Novel Escape Hatch from Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
November 18, 2016

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Planetology

4}

It's a good day for some rather underwhelming attempts to evade scientific indications of ID. Read More ›