Tag: extraterrestrial life

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
August 20, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, advice, Alexander Oparin, amino acids, Baltimore, biopolymers, building blocks, chemistry, computer languages, Dave Keeling, Deep Ocean Raman In Situ Spectrometer, DNA, education, Edward Anders, Edward T. Peltzer, extraterrestrial life, geology, Gustaf Arrhenius, Harold Urey, homochirality, hydrothermal vents, Jeffrey Bada, Klingons, lipid world, Mars, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, ocean chemistry, oceanography, organic chemistry, origin of life, Pope, prebiotic conditions, prebiotic soup, proteins, public school, racemization, RNA, RNA world, Roman Catholicism, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, solar system, Stanley Miller, starches, sugars, surface-based chemistry, theistic evolution, UC San Diego, University of Chicago, University of Heidelberg, Vulcans}

Interview with Edward Peltzer on the Origin of Life

_{William A. Dembski
August 20, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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A student of Stanley Miller and Jeffrey Bada explains the failure of materialistic origin-of-life scenarios. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
April 30, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atoms, biomolecular activities, biosignature, Brian Miller, cells, choices, chromosomes, cognition, dance, David Coppedge, decision-making, DNA, enzymes, extraterrestrial life, information, information processing, limbic system, living systems, natural processes, primitive, response, senses, unnatural}

Information Processing: An Unnatural Attribute of Life

_{Eric Hedin
April 30, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The purpose-driven responsiveness of living systems to information appears as a truly confounding enigma for naturalistic explanations Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, cabbage, carrots, Charles Darwin, civilizations, Copernican moment, earth, evolution, extraterrestrial life, Francis Crick, genes, history, human beings, human exceptionalism, Human Genome Project, intelligent design, life, machinery, Matt Ridley, music, natural selection, Nicolaus Copernicus, planets, sun}

Extraterrestrial Life Would Demonstrate Human Exceptionalism

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Planetology

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I hope we do find life elsewhere. It would be another step in our advancement as a species. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 13, 2025

Categories
Origin of Life
Planetology
Rare Earth
Tagged
, algae, aliens, astrobiologists, bacteria, C.S. Lewis, chance, Christianity, European Space Agency, extraterrestrial life, Guillermo Gonzalez, Holy Grail, intelligent design, Jay Richards, materialists, methodological materialism, Milky Way, NASA, natural laws, natural selection, space exploration, The Privileged Planet}

God and the Odds of ET

_{Jonathan Witt
January 13, 2025

Origin of Life, Planetology, Rare Earth

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There is a rational and intellectually defensible strategy for maintaining a measure of optimism about the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 10, 2024

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, attorneys, Casey Luskin, evolution, extraterrestrial life, Forensics, ID the Future, ID theorists, intelligent design, podcast}

How to Defend Intelligent Design Like a Boss

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 10, 2024

Archaeology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

How much do you know about intelligent design? How would you define the term? And are you prepared to defend it? Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
September 17, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, brainstem, cell membrane, cells, chemicals, death, diffusion, evolutionary biologists, extracellular fluid, extraterrestrial life, Günter Bechly, hospice, information, just-so stories, liquid water, molecular machines, multicellular organism, neurons, osmosis, proteins, sodium, sodium ions, sodium-potassium pump, Steve Laufmann, The Extracellular Space (series), The Wonder of Water, water, Your Designed Body}

Water Is a Problem, and Your Body Has an Ingenious Solution

_{Howard Glicksman
September 17, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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The sodium-potassium pump is an innovation that allows your cells to combat the forces of nature and in doing so, prevents disaster. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 28, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, black hole, Children of Light, earth, Energy, Ephesians, extraterrestrial life, Mass, Milky Way, red dwarf star, science fiction, spacecraft, stars, United States, universe, wormholes}

Interstellar Travel: Fantasy or Destiny?

_{Eric Hedin
May 28, 2024

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

10}

Borrowing from science fiction, one of the more intriguing possibilities for interstellar travel involves nullifying the inertia of the entire spaceship. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 1, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, aliens, artificial intelligence, Biola University, consciousness, culture, dating, extraterrestrial life, friendship, Internet, J.P. Moreland, marriage, philosophy of mind, Sean McDowell, sexuality, William Lane Craig, worship}

Craig, Moreland: Two Philosophers Discuss Aliens and Artificial Intelligence

_{Peter Biles
August 1, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

3}

As an old professor of mine told me in an email recently: “Long live visceral proximity!” Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
November 30, 2022

Categories
Astronomy
Physical Sciences
Science
Tagged
, aesthetics, extraterrestrial life, Galileo Galilei, Harvard University, heliocentric model, intelligent design, James Ferguson, Luther College, Nicolaus Copernicus, Owen Gingerich, physicists, Ptolemaic system, religion, solar system, telescope, University of Wisconsin}

Religious Intuition Can Lead to Scientific Discovery: The Cases of Copernicus and Ferguson

_{Robert Shedinger
November 30, 2022

Astronomy, Physical Sciences, Science

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ID is not religion. But even if we were to concede falsely that it is, such a characterization is irrelevant to the question of whether it is true. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 30, 2022

Categories
Planetology
Rare Earth
Tagged
, biosignatures, birds, cosmos, dolphins, extraterrestrial life, Forensics, intelligence, intelligent life, intention, lion, National Geographic, space aliens, wildebeest}

The Silence of the Space Aliens

_{David Coppedge
August 30, 2022

Planetology, Rare Earth

5}

The SEETI thinkers are looking for signs of intention. Even in global death, they believe they could separate natural causes from intelligent causes. Read More ›