Tag: First Cause

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Date
October 16, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, A Universe from Nothing, atheism, black hole, cosmic microwave background radiation, creator, electromagnetic energy, empirical observation, Energy, fine-tuning, First Cause, first law of thermodynamics, gamma ray photons, Hawking radiation, Higgs Boson, Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy, Lawrence Krauss, mass-energy, matter, natural law, nothingness, physicists, physics, quantum fields, supernatural, universe, WMAP}

New Video: “Proof of God in 3 Minutes” — Really? Here Are the Details

_{Science and Culture
October 16, 2025

Faith & Science, Physics

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We will demonstrate that the video is accurate, well supported, and there is truly no serious argument against its conclusions. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 12, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, butterfly, Chelsea Flower Show, Christianity, eliminative materialism, fine-tuning, First Cause, France, Garden of Eden, God the Science the Evidence, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Hercule Poirot, Kathleen Stock, Liz Truss, materialism, Michael Egnor, Michel-Yves Bolloré, Olivier Bonnassies, philosophers, Roman Catholic Church, Sunday Times, The Spiritual Brain, UnHerd, universes}

Why Can’t We Just Go Back to Unprovable Faith?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 12, 2025

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physics

6}

Kathleen Stock’s witty effort to blunt the force of the evidence presented in that new French book raises a stark question. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 4, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, chickens, eggs, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, First Cause, intelligent design, living systems, Michael Behe, MIT Press, natural genetic engineering, Peter Corning, Platonic forms, purposiveness, symbiogenesis, teleonomy, William A. Dembski}

Design Without a Designer? New Book Says Yes!

_{Daniel Witt
April 4, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

So, does the teleonomic explanation hold up? Well, we have to ask: where does “teleonomy” come from? Why does it exist? Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Asia, atheism, Charles Lyell, Christianity, Daniel Dennett, E Conchis Omnia, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, First Cause, fundamentalism, Garden of Eden, God Hypothesis, Higher Criticism, Lamarckian theory, literalism, Louis Agassiz, Nick Spencer, Noah’s Ark, Noah’s Flood, On the Origin of Species, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Pierre-Simon Laplace, quantum weirdness, Richard Dawkins, Richard Swinburne, The Necessity of Atheism, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Uncertainty Principle, Victorian England, William James, William Lane Craig}

Shelley, Darwin, and the 19th-Century God Debate

_{Neil Thomas
March 13, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

19}

The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley threw down the gauntlet for what was effectively to become the great Victorian dispute about religious faith. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 22, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", ad hoc hypotheses, Big Think, Dartmouth College, David Klinghoffer, Eugene Koonin, Evolution News, First Cause, Gottfried Leibniz, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Kirk Durston, Marcello Gleiser, multiverse, universe}

Physicist: “The Multiverse Is a Lot Like God”

_{David Klinghoffer
August 22, 2022

Faith & Science, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

4}

I have to admit it makes me smile to think Professor Gleiser’s thoughts ahead of him. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Charles Darwin, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), evolution, faith, First Cause, Flower Power, Germany, Higher Criticism, information, Roman Catholic, secularism, Victorian England}

Darwin and the Swinging 1860s

_{Neil Thomas
March 5, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

3}

The threat which such thinking posed to theistic beliefs was not lost on the Roman Catholic Church when Pope Pius IX convened the First Vatican Council of 1869. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
December 9, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Anthony Flew, Aristotle, atheism, British Rationalist Association, Cicero, Cristian Bandea, DNA, electron microscope, Epicurus, Eric Metaxas, First Cause, Galen, god of the details, intellectual history, Irreducible Complexity, Is Atheism Dead?, Lucretius, Paul Davies, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Plato, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, The Mind of God, The Necessity of Atheism, The Return to the God Paradigm (series)}

Nothing New Under the Sun

_{Neil Thomas
December 9, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

7}

The inference to a First Cause has begun to percolate down to people who hold no prior allegiance to any of the world’s accredited religions. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 19, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Africans, atheism, causal circularity, Charles Murray, computer code, DNA, Douglas Murray, faith, First Cause, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jerusalem Post, Jordan Peterson, molecular machines, New Atheists, New New Atheists, Return of the God Hypothesis, South Africa, Stephen Meyer, Steven Weinberg, supernatural, The Privileged Planet, Tom Holland}

Meyer in the Jerusalem Post: Farewell to the Purposeless Cosmos

_{Casey Luskin
August 19, 2021

Faith & Science

6}

From living in South Africa for more than four years, I got a good sense of African perspectives on atheism. Read More ›

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Author
Elizabeth Whately

Date
August 9, 2021

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Geology
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Charles Lyell, earthquakes, evolution, First Cause, floods, God Hypothesis, intelligent design, James Croft, mind, naturalism, omnipotence, Prime Mover, programming, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, uniformitarianism}

Meyer vs. Croft: Vying for the Lyellian Mantle

_{Elizabeth Whately
August 9, 2021

Biology, Faith & Science, Geology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

5}

Stephen Meyer has aligned himself in spirit with the geologist Charles Lyell, who explained geological features “by reference to causes now in operation." Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
October 28, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, A Brief History of Time, Apple iPhones, Big Bang, children, computers, consciousness, designer, earth, Energy, evolution, fire, Fire-Maker, First Cause, intelligent design, materialists, matter, metals, Michael Denton, multiverse, Paul Davies, physical laws, Robin Collins, science fiction, Science Uprising, scientific discovery, self-replicating machine, Stephen Hawking, The Problems of Physics, water, Why Evolution Is Different}

Top Six Evidences for Intelligent Design

_{Granville Sewell
October 28, 2020

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology

10}

Here is a modest attempt to summarize the main scientific evidences for design in our world, for those who have been told that such evidence does not exist. Read More ›