Tag: Francis Crick

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 26, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon Prime, Aristotle, Asa Gray, beauty, beauty problem, Charles Darwin, consciousness, cosmos, David Berlinski, Design Inference, documentary, Douglas Axe, flowers, Francis Crick, George MacDonald, George Steiner, Heraclitus, materialism, ocellus, Parts of Animals, peacock, peacock’s tail, peahen, planets, Richard Sternberg, Robert Sheldon, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sarah Salviander, sexual selection, solar system, stars, Stephen Meyer, Stratford Caldecott, The Descent of Man, The Flower-Angels, The Story of Everything, Timothy McGrew}

The Beauty Enigma: It “Seems to Be Reaching Out to Us”

_{David Klinghoffer
June 26, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The beauty of the cosmos and of nature generally can't be explained in materialist terms. Or more positively, they prompt an inference to design. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 22, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon Prime, artificial intelligence, atheists, beauty, Canada, car crash, Catholic Herald, certainty, Christians, DNA, documentary, double helix, earth, faith and science, Francis Crick, Great Britain, human beings, Iain McGilchrist, intelligent design, James Watson, Mexico, Peter Stanford, Pope Leo XIV, psychiatrists, religion, scientists, Spain, survival, The Story of Everything, The Telegraph, United Kingdom, United States}

An Unusual Story of Everything Review from the UK

_{David Klinghoffer
June 22, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Senior features writer Peter Stanford at The Telegraph seems excited about the documentary almost despite himself. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 16, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, aliens, Ancient Aliens, Bible, Big Bang, Christianity, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, convergent evolution, Darwinian evolution, Disclosure Day, Discovery Institute, E.T. the Extraterrestrial, Edward Snowden, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, extraterrestrials, fine-tuning, First Cause, Francis Crick, gray aliens, History Channel, intelligent design, L. A. Marzulli, media, Michael Knowles, Nerdrotic, Richard Dawkins, Science and Culture Today, Singularity, spoilers, Steven Spielberg, storytelling, sunshine laws, Ufologists, UFOs, universe, War of the Worlds, whistleblower, YouTubers}

Disclosure Day Is Fun, But It Didn’t Rock My Faith

_{Casey Luskin
June 16, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Spielberg's message is not only that aliens are real but also that they’re good and they’re our friends. I find that very curious: How is he so sure? 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

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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
Walter Myers III

Date
April 30, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aristotle, automobiles, beauty, biology, Cambrian Explosion, Darwinian theory, DNA, documentary, double helix, embryonic development, fossil record, Francis Crick, gibberish, gratuitous beauty, human beings, information, intelligent design, intention, living cell, Michael Behe, mind, mutations, peacock, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Sternberg, scholarship, science, skyscrapers, smartphones, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, undirected processes}

The Story to Which Biology, Considered Honestly, Must Lead

_{Walter Myers III
April 30, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

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Perhaps the most arresting challenge to the materialist account of life is one that cannot be quantified at all. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
April 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, acyl transfer, aldehydes, alphabet, amino acids, anhydrides, atoms, biosynthetic cost, codons, cyclisation, decomposition, DNA replication, esters, Francis Crick, hydrolysis, hydrophobicity, ketones, nitriles, polypeptides, protein core, proteins, purposeful selection, racemisation, side chains, solubility, stability, surface, teleology, The FEBS Journal, tRNAs}

The Set of Amino Acids Used in Life Is No “Frozen Accident”

_{Jonathan McLatchie
April 28, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Significantly, these data indicate that the space of usable amino acids is severely constrained. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
April 16, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alien intelligence, alphabetic letters, amino acids, coded instructions, Contact (movie), DNA, Ellie Arroway, evolution, extraterrestrial life, Francis Crick, information, information enigma, intelligent agent, intelligent design, James Tour, James Watson, material universe, molecular biology, molecules, prime numbers, protein synthesis, scientific community, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything}

The Living Nano-Factory: Darwinists Ignore the Ultimate Information Enigma

_{Terrell Clemmons
April 16, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

4}

Information and orderly processes don’t happen by accident any more than a factory production line organizes itself out of unassembled constituent parts. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 1, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, bacteria, biological engineering, Boris Zinshteyn, codons, combinations, degeneracy, dormancy, Francis Crick, function, genes, genetic code, hypoxia, intelligent design, mismatch, MIT, Mycobacterium bovis, oxygen, Peter Dedon, PNAS, predictions, proteins, Rachel Green, redundancy, Science (journal), Scripps Research Institute, transfer RNA}

A Method in the Madness of “Degeneracy”: Here Is Another Genetic Code

_{David Coppedge
April 1, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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The report from MIT doesn’t hesitate to call this a “newly discovered genetic code” or “alternate genetic code” with functional significance. Read More ›

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Date
March 23, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, beauty, biologists, bit string, cellular life, Charles Darwin, cosmos, David Berlinski, digital information, DNA, Eric Esau, Fathom Entertainment, fine-tuning, Francis Crick, human interference, intelligent design, James Watson, laboratory equipment, living cell, mid-century modern, miracle, molecular machines, New York Times, origin of life, philosophers, proteins, Rice University, Richard Sternberg, scientific discoveries, scientists, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, theaters, tickets, Timothy McGrew, truth, universe, wonder}

The Information Enigma and Gratuitous Beauty: In Theaters on April 30

_{Science & Culture
March 23, 2026

Faith & Science, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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It's intelligent design as you've never seen it before. Find inspiration, and share it with friends and family. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 27, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, Cambridge University, Cavendish Laboratory, DNA, faith and science, Francis Crick, history of science, intelligent design, James Clerk Maxwell, James Watson, Latin, physicists, pleasure, Presbyterians, Psalms, scientists, Stephen Meyer, theology}

Watch: Stephen Meyer in Cambridge, at the Doors of the Cavendish Lab

_{David Klinghoffer
January 27, 2026

Faith & Science, History of Science

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Even these atheist scientists recognized that beauty was a marker that pointed to truth in their field, in which they too could take pleasure. Read More ›