Tag: fine-tuning

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
May 29, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, agnostics, atheists, beetles, beginning, Bible, Big Bang, biochemistry, biological origins, biology, butterflies, Christians, creation, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian selection, evolution, fine-tuning, geneticists, Grand Canyon, humans, intelligent design, J. B. S. Haldane, Jews, molecular machines, natural selection, Noah, physics, protoplasm, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science and Culture Today, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, universes, University of Texas at Austin, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

In Fifty Years, How the Discussion About Science and Faith Has Changed

_{Granville Sewell
May 29, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Decades ago, as I can recall from personal experience, there seemed to be only two choices. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 24, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, articles, books, chemistry, fine-tuning, Geraint F. Lewis, ID the Future, information processing, intelligent design, Luke Barnes, multiverse, Peter S. Williams, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roberto Fumagalli, Stephen Meyer, universe, videos}

Defending Fine-Tuning: How to Respond to 20 Common Objections

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 24, 2026

Cosmology, Intelligent Design

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Scientists have discovered a whole suite of parameters and initial conditions appear to be exquisitely tuned to allow for complex life to exist. Read More ›

Two dice bouncing with sparks. Concept for probability and random choice. Casino gambling and gaming.

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
May 19, 2026

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Anthony Aguirre, Battle of the Big Bang, beans, Caltech, Christopher Hitchcock, cosmos, Daniel Díaz-Pachón, debates, dice, dimensional analysis, fine-tuning, Frank Wilczek, Fred Adams, general relativity, intelligent design, Justin Brierley, Luke Barnes, Martin Rees, Max Tegmark, normalizability, Ola Hössjer, parameter space, Phil Halper, physics, Planck scale, posterior probability, prior probability, probability, Robert Marks, Robin Collins, Standard Model, Stephen Meyer, theism}

Halper and Meyer on Inscrutable Dice and Cosmological Fine-Tuning

_{Bruce Gordon
May 19, 2026

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Phil Halper has argued against a position that no one holds, and his argument as a whole lays claim to the very capacity his objection denies. Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
May 13, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheists, beauty, Chartres Cathedral, Christians, Christopher Hitchens, creator, David Berlinski, Discovery Institute, DNA, fine-tuning, fish, Francis Crick, God Is Not Great, gratuitous beauty, humans, intelligent design, James Joyce, ocean, philosophers, photography, quietness, religious believers, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Sternberg, Rod Dreher, Stephen Meyer, survival, The Story of Everything, theaters, universe, Whittaker Chambers, womb}

Under Aesthetic Arrest: Even an Atheist Might Stop and Think

_{Bethel McGrew
May 13, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

5}

Humans are the only creatures with a capacity for appreciating beauty beyond a rudimentary attraction to something eye-catching, shiny, or colorful. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
May 8, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, archeology, arrow, bullseye, carbon-12 resonance, cosmology, creator, debates, explorer, fine-tuning, God Hypothesis, heliocentric model, Judeo-Christian tradition, jungle, Justin Brierley, natural philosophy, Occam’s razor, Phil Halper, physics, predictions, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Stone Age, Stonehenge, target, The Story of Everything, Thomas Kuhn}

Extraordinary: Stephen Meyer and Phil Halper Debate the God Hypothesis

_{Jonathan Witt
May 8, 2026

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics

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I could say more on the subject, but much of it is in this fantastic conversation — "the toughest debate I've ever had," as Halper graciously says at the end. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 7, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, agnostics, americans, Big Bang, Big Bangs, Catholics, Christianity, Christians, creator, Deity, Discovery Institute, documentary, faith and science, fine-tuning, Gilead, history of science, intelligence, Israel, Jeremiah, Jewish Journal, Jews, media, monotheism, nature, physicists, Protestants, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientific discoveries, Seattle, Singularity, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, United States, universe, weekend}

The Science of Theism as a Healing Salve

_{David Klinghoffer
May 7, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

3}

One reason I’m grateful for it is that the film makes a scientific case for theism of a kind that unites. It comes at an important moment for that. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 7, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, aliens, astrophysicists, blueprint, cosmic design, cosmos, creation, disclosure, DNA, environment, evolution, extraterrestrials, fine-tuning, fire, fitness, Homo sapiens, humanoids, humans, intelligent design, jellyfish, life-forms, media, metallurgy, Michael Denton, nature, Neil deGrasse Tyson, New York Times, physiology, planets, predictions, privilege, reality, scientific atheists, technology, termites, The Miracle of Man, UFOs, universe, vertebrates}

What Would Aliens, if They Exist, Look Like? Like Us, or Like Jellyfish?

_{David Klinghoffer
May 7, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design, Planetology

4}

According to celebrity scientific atheist Neil deGrass Tyson, ETs would look nothing like us, because there is no reason they would. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 7, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, Artem Novozhilov, codon mapping, codons, combinatorial space, conscious intent, Eugene Koonin, evolution, fine-tuning, frozen accident, genetic code, intelligent creator, intelligent design, natural selection, optimality, prebiotic selection, proteins, standard code, trial and error, tRNAs}

The Combinatorial Abyss: Why the Genetic Code Defies Chance

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 7, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

6}

It is highly improbable that the genetic code could have evolved by gradual trial and error. Read More ›

Sanger Sequencing. 3D illustration of a method of DNA sequencing.

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 6, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alternative reading frames, coding-sequence overlaps, codon-anticodon duplex formation, codons, constraints, DNA, fine-tuning, frameshifts, frozen accident, genetic code, Genome Research, hydrogen bond, hydrophobicity, mistranslation, nucleosomes, point mutations, protein sequences, purine, pyrimidines, random codes, RNA, specificity, splicing signals, translation, translation errors, tRNA, wobble position}

The Genetic Code: Two More Levels of Optimization

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 6, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design

5}

We have surveyed multiple levels at which the genetic code, far from a “frozen accident,” appears highly optimized across multiple independent constraints. Read More ›

DNA sequencing result, visualisation. Researches in genetics

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 4, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, anti-codon, BioSystems, codons, constraints, cysteine, degeneracy, error-impact, fine-tuning, frameshift mutations, genetic code, intelligent design, leucine, mutations, optimization, overlapping coding sequences, proteins, redundancy, Ribosome, RNA, triplets, tryptophan, tyrosine, wobble position}

Introducing the Remarkable Genetic Code

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 4, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design

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The optimization of the genetic code for error minimization is made possible by the redundancy of the code. What is meant by redundancy? Read More ›