Tag: elements

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Amazon, astronomer, beavers, biochemists, biology, chance, Easter Island, elements, evolution, gods, helium, Herbert Spencer, intelligent design, iron picks, Laurence Moran, life, necessity, New York City, Norman Lockyer, Occam’s razor, On the Origin of Species, parsimony, skyscraper, smartphones, special creation, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, stone hammers, Stonehenge, will}

How Did the Designer Do It?

_{Daniel Witt
July 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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It seems the debate has not progressed much in a century and a half. Clearly, these evolutionary theorists think they have an unanswerable line of attack here. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
September 12, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, black holes, cosmogony, Cosmological Natural Selection, elements, evolution, evolutionary theory, intelligent design, intelligent life, Jay Richards, Lee Smolin, life, planets, scientific discovery, silicon, stars, superconductivity, The Privileged Planet, universes}

Were We Made to Make Black Holes?

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
September 12, 2024

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology

9}

I want to compare our book with a 2020 paper by Jeffery Shainline of the National Institutes of Standards and Technology. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
September 10, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alchemy, ancient Greeks, Benjamin Wiker, compounds, elements, gold, human vision, hydrogen, ions, Jonathan Witt, matter, oxygen, reactions, sun, Svante Arrhenius, The Privileged Planet, water, William Nicholson}

Weird Water and Its Role in the Rise of Chemistry

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
September 10, 2024

Chemistry, Intelligent Design

7}

Water has been crucial in the transition from alchemy to the science of chemistry. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 24, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Environment & Climate
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Rare Earth
Tagged
, agnostics, blood, capillaries, cells, Charles Tanford, circulation, criminology, earth, elements, endothermy, evaporation, extraterrestrial intelligence, fitness, fluids, gas, heat, hydrogen, hydrological cycle, hydrophobic force, intelligent design, liquid, microbiology, oxygen, skin, solid, solvents, temperature, The Wonder of Water, tissues, viscosity, water}

In the Case of Water, an Inference to Intelligent Design Is Independent of Any Religious Claim

_{Michael Denton
July 24, 2024

Biochemistry, Environment & Climate, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Rare Earth

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In this article I will explain why, as someone who is agnostic about many religious claims, I find the inference to intelligent design impossible to refuse. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 10, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Antarctic, atmosphere, Children of Light, chloroplasts, earth, electromagnetic spectrum, elements, Michael Denton, naturalism, Periodic Table, photosynthesis, radiation, stars, sun, theism, visual light, water}

The Wonder of Sunlight: Appreciating the Remarkable Coincidences that Make Life Possible

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 10, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences

6}

It is easy to imagine a plethora of scenarios where, if our universe were just slightly different, photosynthesis could not take place. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 19, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, carbon, elements, Fred Hoyle, Geraint Lewis, helium, hydrogen, hydrophobic force, life, Luke Barnes, macromolecules, neutrons, nitrogen, organic molecules, oxygen, protons, silicon, universe}

The Remarkable Carbon Atom

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 19, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

6}

This is another one of many countless features of our universe that have to be “just right” for life — in particular, advanced life — to exist. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 21, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, bronze, Bronze Age, civilization, copper, earth, Earth’s crust, elements, humans, intelligent design, Iron Age, metals, Michael Denton, microbial life, Middle East, Native Americans, oxygen, theism, warfare, weapons, Wisconsin, wood}

The Discovery of Metals — A Double-Edged Sword

_{Eric Hedin
May 21, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology

9}

Why should the melting points of common metals be attainable in furnaces heated by burning carbon-based organic matter? Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, carbon, cosmic inflation, Durham University, elements, Goldilocks, information theory, intelligent design, inverse gambler’s fallacy, multiverse, Phillip Goff, philosophers, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, universe}

A Philosopher Rejects the Multiverse but Embraces Mythology

_{Eric Hedin
November 27, 2023

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics

7}

Ascribing sentience or cosmic purpose to forces or the particles on which they act is to step out of the realm of science into the realm of myth-making. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 30, 2023

Categories
Arts
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, astronomers, black holes, civilization, creativity, dark energy, dark matter, electromagnetic force, electrons, elementary particles, elements, gravity, human beings, humanity, image of God, James Webb Space Telescope, Judeo-Christian tradition, laws of nature, literature, nebulae, neutrons, planets, protons, spectroscopy, stars, sunset, universe}

Intelligence Is Unnatural, and Why That Matters

_{Eric Hedin
June 30, 2023

Arts, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics, Technology

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One of the advantages we have in our study of nature is our ability to observe an entire “unpolluted” universe. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 8, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, archaea, boron, cabbage, Casey Luskin, chocolate, cobalt, coffee, coins, copper, corn, Dartmouth College, elements, Harvard School of Public Health, hemoglobin, human body, intelligent design, iron, manganese, Michael Denton, milk, mushrooms, nickel, nuts, onions, organs, oysters, peas, phosphorus, PNAS, potassium, Privileged Species, protein science, rhubarb, The Miracle of the Cell, thyroid gland, tissues, tomatoes, Uppsala University, urine, zinc}

Brother, Can You Spare a Nickel? It’s Essential for Life, and Likely an Indicator of Intelligent Design

_{David Coppedge
June 8, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Nickel is an essential element in the human body, but too much is toxic. Here’s another element our planet had to provide. Read More ›