Tag: demiurge

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 28, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, biology, Birkbeck College, C. W. Howell, causation, Christian teaching, Christians, David Bentley Hart, demiurge, Designer Science, Edward Feser, formal cause, formal principle, gnosticism, God's Grandeur, history, intelligent design, intrinsic purpose, logos, materialism, metaphysics, natural processes, natural selection, philosophy, physics, Plato, primary sources, Queen Mary University of London, Richard Sternberg, scholars, Socrates, Sophia Connell, teleology, theistic evolution, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism}

Designer Science Misrepresents Aristotle and Ignores Church History

_{Brian Miller
May 28, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics

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C. W. Howell contrasts intelligent design with what he believes is Aquinas’ and Aristotle’s understanding of teleology (purpose) in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
March 19, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Physics
Tagged
, air, Ambrose, Aristotle, Basil of Caesarea, Bible, Biblical texts, cellulose, Christianity, Chrysostom, classical science, demiurge, duck, earth, elements, Ephrem the Syrian, fire, form, Genesis, house, John Calvin, Justin Martyr, Martin Luther, matter, metal, metaphysics, nuclear reactions, Periodic Table, philosophy, pipes, plastic, Plato, rabbit, radioactive decay, scientific ideas, Septuagint, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Tertullian, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, Timaeus, water, wires, Wisdom of Solomon, wood}

Can Formless Matter Exist? A Pitfall in Reading Biblical Texts

_{Winston Ewert
March 19, 2026

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Physics

9}

The solution is to go back to the source and follow the text to see what it actually says. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, algorithms, Andreas Wagner, Aristotle, biology, C.H. Waddington, Casey Luskin, creationists, demiurge, Denis Noble, DNA, Erwin Schrödinger, evolutionary biology, Günter Bechly, Hans Driesch, Harvard University, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Michael Levin, microbes, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonism, René Descartes, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design, theoretical biology, Tufts University, University of Zurich, vitalism}

Eavesdropping in the Platonic Academy

_{Daniel Witt
May 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

10}

I can relate to the paleontologist Günter Bechly, who, after hearing Sternberg lay out his thesis, lay awake unable to sleep as he considered the implications. Read More ›

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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, creation, creationism, demiurge, evolution, family, freedom, genus, human origins, Jerry Coyne, life, nature, physical causes, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, reason, revelation, Roman Catholic, science and religion, scientists, species, theologians, 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

5}

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
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, intelligence, intelligent cause, intelligent design, Kolmogorov information, Ludwig Wittgenstein, 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

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

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 17, 2022

Categories
Biology
Culture
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Christianity, creation, demiurge, Discovery Institute, evolution, gnosticism, God and Evolution, Gospel of John, history, intelligent design, Jay Richards, John West, Judaism, Lucretius, materialists, Richard Dawkins, Talmud, theism, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith}

West: Theistic Evolution and the Gnostic Heresy

_{David Klinghoffer
August 17, 2022

Biology, Culture, Faith & Science

3}

Friendliness to a design perspective might seem to be natural for any theist. Yet a prickly disdain is strangely common, especially among religious academics. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
May 20, 2022

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astrophysicists, atheism, bioengineering, brain, Charles Darwin, Copernican Revolution, demiurge, Democritus, Denis Diderot, earth, Erasmus Darwin, human eye, humankind, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, natural selection, nature, Paul Davies, philosophes, physiology, Plato, purpose, teleology, The Miracle of Man, theism, William Paley}

In His New Book, Denton Shows How Science Leads the Charge to Theism

_{Neil Thomas
May 20, 2022

Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences

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In his new book, Michael Denton is particularly strong on what he terms “the post-Copernican delusion of mankind’s cosmic irrelevance.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, afterlife, atomism, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Darwinian theory, demiurge, Epicurus, evolution, gods, Greek, Latin, Lucretius, materialism, Matthew Arnold, Victorians}

Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus

_{Neil Thomas
January 25, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

4}

Darwinism, when viewed from a philosophical perspective, might more accurately be understood as a late sub-branch of ancient speculative thought. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 16, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotle, demiurge, evolution, fossil record, Genesis, information, intelligent design, natural world, Platonists, population genetics, Richard Sternberg, Science Uprising, Stephen Meyer, Timaeus, University of Toronto, waiting-time problem}

Evolutionary Biologist Richard Sternberg: Why I’m a Platonist

_{David Klinghoffer
December 16, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

3}

The evolutionary turns that life has taken, he says, “ultimately have their source in an informational realm that is outside space and time.” Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 15, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Anaxagoras, ancient Greeks, Aristotle, atheism, atomists, body plans, Christianity, cognition, demiurge, Democritus, evolutionary theory, idealism, intelligent design, materialism, natural selection, Plato, purposefulness, Scott Turner, Socrates}

Scott Turner Explains Philosophical Traditions Shaping Biology

_{Brian Miller
April 15, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Turner classifies the intelligent design movement as a resurgence of Platonic idealism. Read More ›