Tag: evidence

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 26, 2026

Categories
Political Science
Science Reporting
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, decolonization, Emmet Fraizer, evidence, Jerry Coyne, LabX Media Group, legends, materialism, Michael Shermer, psychology, Scientific American, scientists, Smithsonian Magazine, Springer Nature, Steven Pinker, The Nation, truth, Why Evolution Is True, wokeness}

“Decolonize” Science? Wokeness Scrambles Scientific Journals and Writers

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 26, 2026

Political Science, Science Reporting, Scientific Reasoning

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Yes, “decolonization” does mean accepting legends in place of evidence, in order to show respect for the legends’ tellers and believers. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 17, 2026

Categories
Chemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, advanced life, Andromeda, chemistry, Children of Light, coincidences, compounds, comprehension, cosmos, Darwinism, density, earth, evidence, hydrological cycle, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, land, Michael Denton, oxygen, photochemistry, photosynthesis, playing cards, The Wonder of Water, transparency, viscosity, water}

The Remarkable Life-Friendly Properties of Sunlight and Water

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 17, 2026

Chemistry, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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“The right light,” says Dr. McLatchie, would be like the thickness of “a few playing cards in a stack stretching beyond the galaxy of Andromeda.” Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arguments, causal adequacy, cosmic fine-tuning, digital information, DNA, evidence, explanations, God of the gaps, ignorance, information, intelligent cause, intelligent design, materialistic processes, mind, origin of life, Richard Dawkins, specified information, Stephen Meyer, The God Delusion, understanding}

Return of the God-of-the-Gaps Objection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
October 6, 2026

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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True, our ID argument does depend in part upon critical assessments of the causal adequacy of materialistic explanations for the origin of DNA information. Read More ›

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Date
August 14, 2026

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt change, Albert Einstein, anatomical gap, anatomy, ape-like creatures, biological beginning, biological history, biology, Casey Luskin, contradictionss, Ella Al-Shamahi, evidence, gradualism, Homo erectus, human evolution, human origins, Lucy, Matthew Haber, New Scientist, paleoanthropologists, paleontology, philosophers, rainbows, Science and Human Origins, Science Uprising, syllogism, universal common descent, University of Utah}

Study of Biological Origins Is Entering a Surreal State

_{Science & Culture
August 14, 2026

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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No biological history and no biological beginning: are you seeing the trend? Both seem to be responses to being battered by the evidence. Read More ›

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Date
August 13, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, backstory, biological history, biology, common descent, evidence, history of life, incomprehension, Matthew Haber, Maureen Kearney, non-fiction, phylogenetic hypotheses, phylogeny, prose, timescales, Tree of Life, University of Utah}

Common Descent on the Road to Incomprehension

_{Science & Culture
August 13, 2026

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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In 2025, Haber proposed that there JUST IS NO “true history of life.” Don’t look for it, as if one could actually find it, because it doesn’t exist. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 24, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, brain, Bruce Greyson, cardiac arrest, Charlotte Martial, coma, dying brain, emergency room, evidence, evolution, evolutionary psychology, explainaway, Galileo Galilei, geocentric cosmology, Kristin French, Marieta Pehlivanova, Mark Johnson, Messiah University, Michael Egnor, Michael Zignarelli, Nautilus, near-death experiences, Netherlands, neuroscience, opossum, optical illusions, possum, Real Clear Science, stereotypical behavior, thanatosis, Venus, Washington Post}

What’s an Explainaway? Here Is an Example from the Debate on Near-Death Experiences

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 24, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Explainaways, whether possum tales or optical illusions, exist to protect a system from unwanted evidence by ignoring or dismissing it. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 21, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon, Amazon Prime, blind processes, common sense, digital code, DNA, evidence, fine-tuning, intelligent design, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, podcast, purposeless processes, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, universe}

Stephen Meyer and Piers Morgan: The Design of the Cosmos

_{David Klinghoffer
July 21, 2026

Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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Is there clear and present scientific evidence that life and the universe were purposefully designed? Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
July 15, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon Prime, astrophysicists, Bible, Big Bang, birth defects, Carl Sagan, Chelsea Handler Show, churches, community centers, cosmology, Cosmos (series), documentary, evidence, faith, First Cause, human inquiry, ID the Future, Impaulsive, Judeo-Christian tradition, Logan Paul, Mike Majlak, natural disasters, Neil deGrasse Tyson, pestilence, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rotten Tomatoes, schools, scientific community, Stephen Meyer, suffering, The Story of Everything, universe}

Who Pushed the Button? A Question at the Frontier of Human Inquiry

_{Terrell Clemmons
July 15, 2026

Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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While answers may venture beyond the limits of the empirical sciences, that doesn’t mean the sciences don’t offer meaningful information to bear on them. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
May 26, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, abiogenesis, assumptions, asteroids, bias, confidence, evidence, experiments, Gerald Joyce, investigator intervention, James Tour, Long Story Short, meteors, methodological naturalism, Miller-Urey experiment, murder, natural causes, natural processes, naturalism, origin of life, polymerase, repeatability, researchers, ribozyme, RNA, Science and Culture Today, scientists, self-replicating molecules, Sol Spiegelman, suicide, tabloids, water droplets}

Applying Scientific Method to the Origin of Life Yields Shaky Results

_{Rob Stadler
May 26, 2026

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Scientific Reasoning

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Scientists are not, or should not be, tabloid headline writers. They should only make claims that are strongly supported by evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
May 11, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Manual for Creating Atheists, addiction treatment, atheism, cinematography, clinicians, criminology, designing intelligence, epidemiology, evidence, faith, interventions, Judeo-Christian tradition, materialism, materialistic paradigm, mental illness, Michael Shermer, Peter Boghossian, philosophy, Portland State University, Socratic inquiry, Street Epistemology, TechSpective, The Story of Everything, theaters, Timothy McGrew, Tony Bradley, treatments, virus}

Science Liberated from Dogma: Story of Everything Offers a Journey for Creating Freethinkers

_{Terrell Clemmons
May 11, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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A 2013 book is a training manual for talking people who profess a religious faith, mostly Christian students on college campuses, out of their faith. Read More ›