Tag: creation

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
April 21, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, Big Bang, Christine Rouselle, creation, creationism, demiurge, evolution, family, freedom, genus, human origins, Humani Generis, Jerry Coyne, life, nature, physical causes, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Pope Pius XII, popes, reason, revelation, Roman Catholic, science and religion, scientists, species, theologians, Townhall, universe, Why Evolution Is True}

On Evolution, Pope Francis Spoke and the Media Got it Wrong

_{Ann Gauger
April 21, 2025

Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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According to Pope Francis, evolution per se still requires a Creator and cannot be the result of purely physical causes. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, abortion, creation, Darwinian evolution, Evangelical Christians, Francis Collins, Human Genome Project, ID the Future, John West, National Institutes of Health, race, religious liberty, secularists, sex, sexuality, Stockholm Syndrome, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity}

When Christians in Science Embrace Scientific Materialism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 5, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

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John West explains that “Stockholm syndrome” refers to the tendency of a victim to bond with or sympathize with his or her captor. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
January 30, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Big Bang, Catholic clergy, Christianity for Doubters, creation, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, Evolution News, Georges Lemaȋtre, improvements, intelligent beings, intelligent design, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Melissa Wehmann Sewell, mistakes, natural causes, Nature (journal), planning, Supreme Being, testing, The Big Bang Revolutionaries, theology, universe}

Georges Lemaȋtre’s Hidden God

_{Granville Sewell
January 30, 2025

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Physics, Technology

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Was Lemaȋtre, who certainly believed in God, suggesting that God deliberately hides himself from us, or just acknowledging the paradox? Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
December 24, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, beauty, Beauty Is Your Destiny, brain, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, creation, design, Epicureans, human eye, intelligent design, modern life, natural world, On the Incarnation, Philip Ryken, Plato, Platonism, poem, randomness, scientific truth, St. Athanasius, symphony, theology, Wheaton College}

For Christmas, Reading St. Athanasius on the Beauty of the Universe

_{Peter Biles
December 24, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Besides the prose itself being so pleasing to read, these thoughts reaffirm some of my main reasons for believing this universe is the product of a Mind. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
September 5, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, anthropic fine-tuning, creation, creator, entropy, fine structure constant, initial conditions, John Templeton Foundation, particle physics, Robin Collins, signal, The Privileged Planet, Yale University}

Robin Collins’s “Fine-Tuning for Discoverability” Argument

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
September 5, 2024

Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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In November 2000 we each presented at the “Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe” symposium at Yale University. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 8, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, creation, creationism, death, designer, evolution, humans, Incarnation, intelligent design, natural evil, pain, Panda's Thumb, peer-reviewed literature, Peter Van Inwagen, predation, redemption, resurrection, sickness, special creation, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, theology, waste, William A. Dembski}

Does a Suboptimal Panda’s Thumb Fit Better with Evolution than with Intelligent Design?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 8, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Just how much does evolution expect suboptimal structures? And just how much does intelligent design expect optimal ones? Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
December 14, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, beauty, Beauty Is Your Destiny, brain, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, creation, design, Epicureans, human eye, intelligent design, modern life, natural world, On the Incarnation, Philip Ryken, Plato, Platonism, poem, randomness, scientific truth, St. Athanasius, symphony, theology, Wheaton College}

For Advent, Reading St. Athanasius on the Beauty of the Universe

_{Peter Biles
December 14, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

4}

Besides the prose itself being so pleasing to read, these thoughts reaffirm some of my main reasons for believing this universe is the product of a Mind. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Chaberek

Date
June 20, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, biological origins, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Copernican principle, cosmic design, cosmic origins, creation, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, epigenetic information, faith and science, fossil record, Francisco Ayala, Guillermo Gonzalez, Günter Bechly, heliocentrism, humans, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Michael Behe, mutations, natural selection, Nicolaus Copernicus, Poland, Poles, Renaissance, Richard Sternberg, solar system, universe}

Faith, Science, and Secularization — An Illuminating Conference in Poland

_{Michael Chaberek, O.P.
June 20, 2023

Astronomy, Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Similar to many others among the founders of modern science, Copernicus was a believer in God and clearly a proponent of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 19, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, creation, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Denis Diderot, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, Erwin Schrödinger, giraffes, Homo sapiens, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Lamarckian theory, micromutations, natural preservation, natural selection, nature, Nick Lane, On the Origin of Species, quantum physics, Stanford University, teleology, theology, Thomas Huxley, University of Chicago Press, William Paley, William Shakespeare}

Darwinian Natural Selection: A Covert Theology of Nature?

_{Neil Thomas
June 19, 2023

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Those who interpreted the essence of Darwinism as being an explanation of evolution in (covertly) theistic terms appear to have had a point. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
April 27, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Benjamin Wiker, Christianity, Church Fathers, creation, defining id, designer, Douglas Axe, evolution, evolutionary biologists, Franciscan University, God's Grandeur, intellectuals, intelligent cause, intelligent design, interventionism, James Sinclair, Jonathan Witt, Logan Gage, Michael Denton, molecular machines, natural laws, Reductionism, Robin Collins, Roman Catholic, scientists, Scripture, theology, Thomas Aquinas, universal common descent, universe, William Lane Craig}

Here Is What We Mean by Intelligent Design (And What We Don’t)

_{Ann Gauger
April 27, 2023

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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Some ID supporters agree with universal common descent, but many ID supporters argue against the idea that all life shares a common ancestor. Read More ›