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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
August 14, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, A Brief History of Time, alpha male, Baylor University, Bruce Gordon, cosmological constant, cosmos, Francis Crick, insanity, intelligent design, John Barrow, John Horgan, Nobel laureates, Paul Davies, Peter Atkins, physicists, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Steven Weinberg, Texas, The Nature of Nature, William A. Dembski}

John Horgan on the Madness of “Scientific Omniscience”

_{Paul Nelson
August 14, 2023

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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“As for life, Dawkins’s claim that it is no longer a mystery is absurd. We still don’t have a clue how life began." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 12, 2023

Categories
Geology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Andrew Klavan, biologists, Casey Luskin, Daily Wire, DNA, evolution, Francis Crick, historical sciences, humility, intelligent design, probability}

Science Versus Certainty: Casey Luskin Talks with Andrew Klavan About Intelligent Design and More

_{David Klinghoffer
July 12, 2023

Geology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Science is not about granting certainty. Dr. Luskin gives as an illustration his own field, geology. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Arthur S. Reber, cells, central dogma, consciousness, DNA, Francis Crick, František Baluška, James Shapiro, materialism, neurons, Nobel Prize, nucleic acids, Oxford University, panpsychism, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, RNA, Scientific American, The Scientist, UCLA, University of Bonn, University of British Columbia, University of Chicago, William B. Miller Jr.}

Cognitive Cells? A Newer Challenge to Neo-Darwinism

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 11, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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The origin of self-referential cognition is unknown, say a trio of researchers who call it “biology’s most profound enigma.” Read More ›

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Date
January 2, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, brain, calculus, consciousness, cortex, Francis Crick, human brain, mice, neuroscience, wheels}

Mice Can’t Do Calculus but Their Brains Can

_{Science and Culture
January 2, 2023

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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Neuroimaging and mathematics showed that a simple Stop! signal in the brain would not allow a mouse to stop as quickly as it in fact did. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 28, 2022

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Canada, early Earth, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), Francis Crick, George Wald, habitability, hero, materialists, microfossils, miracle, Nobel Prize, Quebec, Scientific American}

Origin of Life: Saved by Time?

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 28, 2022

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Many materialists believe that the severe unlikelihood of the series of events required for the origin of life is not a serious problem. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 28, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithmic information theory, arrow, Cambridge University Press, coin toss, complexity, complexity theory, Darwinists, dissertation, evolution, fair coin, Francis Crick, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, John Maynard Smith, Leo Kadanoff, Leslie Orgel, natural selection, Paul Davies, Philosophia Christi, poker, probabilistic complexity, probability, Richard Dawkins, Robert J. Marks II, royal flush, Skeptical Inquirer, specification, specified complexity, target, The Blind Watchmaker, The Design Inference, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, UC Irvine, University of Notre Dame, Wikipedia, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Jason Rosenhouse and Specified Complexity

_{William A. Dembski
June 28, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Not all patterns eliminate chance in the presence of improbability. Take an arrow shot at a target. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Animal Liberation, Anthony Flew, consciousness, Darwin, David Bentley Hart, David Hume, deism, Donald Hoffman, Erasmus Darwin, Europeans, evolution, Francis Crick, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lawrence Krauss, Lucretius, materialism, Michael Ruse, mind, natural selection, natural theology, neuroscience, On the Origin of Species, Peter Singer, Racism, rationalism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Rorty, Richard Spilsbury, Stephen Hawking, Ternate letter, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe}

How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind

_{Neil Thomas
June 13, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 12, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Carl Sagan, DNA, double helix, early Earth, Francis Crick, Harold Urey, James Watson, materialism, Miller-Urey experiment, Nobel Prize, proteins, Richard Dawkins, Stanley Miller, University of Chicago, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Imagining “Abiogenesis”: Crick, Watson, and Franklin

_{Neil Thomas
April 12, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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There are some biologists, such as Richard Dawkins, who still pin their faith in ideas which have resulted only in blankly negative experimental results. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
March 29, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, biological information, cosmic fine-tuning, designing intelligence, faith, Francis Crick, Fred Hoyle, intelligent design, panspermia, religion, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, theism, universe, What Is the Evidence for Intelligent Design? (series)}

Intelligent Design: Theistic Implications?

_{Stephen C. Meyer
March 29, 2022

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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Although the case for intelligent design depends upon scientific evidence and methods of reasoning, it may well have larger theistic implications. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
January 21, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, cookbook, early Earth, evolution, Francis Crick, intelligent design, James Tour, metabolism, primordial soup, recipe}

Prebiotic Muffins and an Air of Unreality

_{Paul Nelson
January 21, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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There is a cookbook being proposed for “prebiotic soup recipes” — that is, combinations of non-living chemicals plausibly present on the early Earth. Read More ›