Tag: “God of the gaps”

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
May 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Technology
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Bremermann’s limit, Christians, computer scientists, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, DNA, elevator pitch, epigenetics, Günter Bechly, Hans-Joachim Bremermann, Harvard University, idealists, immaterial genome, intelligent design, John Zmirak, kabbalists, logos, materialists, mathematicians, Michael Levin, neo-Platonists, Plato, Plato's Revenge, proteins, Proverbs, Richard Sternberg, RNA, Stephen Meyer, The Stream, Tufts University}

Sternberg’s Immaterial Genome: Intelligent Design in the Present Tense

_{John Zmirak
May 21, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Paleontology, Technology

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"Various scientists have sought to define the 'physical limits to computation,' and the information processing in the nucleus of a cell breaks that." Read More ›

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Author
Larry Sanger

Date
February 11, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Technology
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Albert Einstein, argument from ignorance, benevolence, Big Bang, Christianity, complexity, constants, David Hume, designer, faith, intelligent design, logos, matter, natural laws, philosophers, Stephen Meyer, universe, William Lane Craig}

Re-Examining the Arguments for the Existence of God

_{Larry Sanger
February 11, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Technology

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I was impressed by a lecture by philosopher of science and well-known apologist Stephen Meyer. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
January 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Denis Noble, Discovery Institute, George Church, information, intelligent design, intelligent designer, Michael Ruse, money, Moon, Perry Marshall, phlogiston, phrenology, Richard Dawkins, rockets, Silicon Valley, Stephen Meyer, William A. Dembski}

Origin of Life Challenge: $10 Million, Just Lying Around

_{Daniel Witt
January 27, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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This is an obvious way to judge such theories. If someone claims to know how to make something, the natural response is, “Let’s see it, then.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 27, 2024

Categories
Origin of Life
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", coacervates, code, evolution, George Washington Carver, hydrothermal vents, James Joule, James Simpson, James Tour, Joana Xavier, metabolism, Michael Faraday, Nick Lane, Paul Nelson, Perry Marshall, primordial soup, Professor Dave, proteinoid microspheres, publish or perish, RNA world, Robert Boyle, spark-discharge tubes, Stephen Meyer, Susan Mazur, target of selection}

No. 6 Story of 2024: Devastating Critique of Origin-of-Life Research

_{David Coppedge
December 27, 2024

Origin of Life

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The magazine started by Norman Lockyer in 1869 to promote Darwin’s naturalistic views has had to face judgment day. Read More ›

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Author
Martin Hilbert

Date
December 16, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", analogy, Aquinas’ Fifth Way, Bernard Carr, DNA, genetic mutations, Gospels, information, intelligent agents, jesus, John Paul II, Michael Chaberek, molecular biology, natural selection, praying mantis, Roman Catholic, sparrows, specified complexity, Thomas Aquinas}

Intelligent Design and Aquinas’ Fifth Way

_{Fr. Martin Hilbert, C.O.
December 16, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Saint Thomas did not have examples of specified complexity as in molecular biology, but it is possible to find a text that suggests he would favor of ID. Read More ›

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Author
Martin Hilbert

Date
December 9, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Alfred North Whitehead, Apostle Paul, Christians, Darwinian paradigm, Darwinism, earthquakes, Europe, evolution, faith and science, Greek philosophers, human soul, intelligent agents, intelligent design, john lennox, lightning, New Testament, Nobel laureates, Robert Laughlin, Roman Catholic, Zeus}

Natural Selection: The God that Failed

_{Fr. Martin Hilbert, C.O.
December 9, 2024

Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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The god-of-the-gaps objection does have some merit to it, but it does not rule out ID. The progress of science has dethroned a multitude of false gods. Read More ›

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Author
Elie Feder

Date
August 21, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", atoms, galaxies, intelligence, intelligent cause, life, molecules, multiverse, mystery, natural constants, physicists, Physics to God, planets, Richard Feynman, scientific knowledge, stars, universe}

Fine-Tuning Is the Solution to the Mystery of the Constants

_{Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
August 21, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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In his discussion of the constants in 1985, physicist Richard Feynman described the great challenge and mystery the constants pose to a final theory, Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 21, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Andrea Roli, argument from ignorance, blacks, élan vital, Ernst Mayr, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, Huffington Post, intelligent design, Jacques Monod, James Barham, James Shapiro, Peter Corning, Racism, Stuart A. Kauffman, University of Chicago, vital force, vitalism}

Is Vitalism Making a Comeback?

_{Daniel Witt
May 21, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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For proponents of ID, there is a natural temptation to respond to this sort of explanation with derision. I suspect this reaction may be short-sighted. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Paleontology
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", abduction, anomalies, artifacts, Avalon explosion, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, Carboniferous Insect Explosion, Charles Darwin, Climbing Mount Improbable, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Doubt, Devonian Nekton Revolution, explosions, Fossil Friday (series), George Gaylord Simpson, GOBE, gradualism, great Ordovician biodiversification event, Lower Cambrian, molecular biology, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, paleontology, photosynthesis, population genetics, predictions, random mutations, revolutions, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, specified complexity, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Greatest Show on Earth}

Fossil Friday: Discontinuities in the Fossil Record — A Problem for Neo-Darwinism

_{Günter Bechly
May 10, 2024

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Paleontology

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The fossil record generally documents a discontinuous history of life with sudden appearances of new body plans and new forms of life in saltational events. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 28, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Ecology
Evolution
Geology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", anesthesia, arteries, astrobiology, autocatalysis, Biomimetics, blood, blood vessels, circulation, coacervates, confession, conservation, genes, George Washington Carver, heart, hydrothermal vents, intelligent design, James Joule, James Simpson, James Tour, Joana Xavier, Johannes Kepler, Leslie Orgel, memory, methodological naturalism, Michael Faraday, mRNA vaccines, Murchison meteorite, Nick Lane, paradigm shift, Paul Nelson, proteinoid microspheres, proteins, reverse-engineering, RNA world, Robert Boyle, Robert Shapiro, scientific revolution, Signature in the Cell, spark-discharge tubes, Stephen Meyer, Susan Mazur, Systems Biology, target of selection, The Origin of Life Circus, University College London, veins, William Harvey}

From Nature, a Devastating Critique of Origin-of-Life Research

_{David Coppedge
February 28, 2024

Biochemistry, Ecology, Evolution, Geology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Philosophy of Science

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The magazine started by Norman Lockyer in 1869 to promote Darwin’s naturalistic views has had to face judgment day. Read More ›