Tag: Goldilocks Zone

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 12, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, advanced life, Ball State University, coincidence, crust, Darwinian process, earth, Eric Hedin, Goldilocks Zone, humans, ID the Future, living things, mantle, metals, mining, podcast, temperature}

Eric Hedin: The Miracle(s) of Metal

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 12, 2024

Biochemistry, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Humans have successfully utilized metals for millennia, and trace amounts of metals are crucial to our survival. Is that coincidence or something more? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 7, 2024

Categories
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, bacteria, biological forms, carbon, cells, Eric Anderson, foresight, Goldilocks Zone, intelligence, life, Michael Denton, The Miracle of the Cell, trees, vitalism, water}

Michael Denton on Nature’s Fitness for Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 7, 2024

Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Carbon’s suite of life-friendly features is foundational to the cell’s peerless ability to build sophisticated biological forms. Read More ›

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Author
Jay W. Richards

Date
April 10, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, americans, astronomers, corona, discovery, earth, eclipse, gas, General Theory of Relativity, Genesis, Goldilocks Zone, Guillermo Gonzalez, hydrogen, Isaac Newton, Jupiter, Mars, Mexico, Moon, penumbra, plasma, signs, solar eclipse, spectroscopes, starlight, sun, Texas, The Privileged Planet, umbra, universe}

To Understand the Meaning of a Solar Eclipse

_{Jay W. Richards
April 10, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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The rare places where observers can exist are also the best places for observing. The universe seems to be designed not just for life but also for discovery. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 12, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, A. N. Wilson, abiogenesis, Anaximander, Anaximenes, apologetics, Arthur Eddington, atheism, Big Bang, Charles Bradlaugh, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Goldilocks Zone, Karl Popper, Lucretius, Melanie Phillips, natural preservation, natural selection, New Atheists, New Synthesis, randomness, Richard Dawkins, spontaneous generation, teleology, The Descent of Man, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Malthus, Victorian period, Werner Heisenberg}

Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences

_{Neil Thomas
February 12, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Faith & Science

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The New Atheists’ failure to understand the nuanced way that “ordinary people” think was a profound strategic error. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, argument from analogy, Barry Gale, biblical flood, Brandon Carter, Carl Sagan, category error, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Copernican principle, coral reefs, epiphenomenon, evolution, Frank Drake, gemmules, Georges Cuvier, Glen Roy, Goldilocks Zone, HMS Beagle, James Hutton, Louis Agassiz, Mendelian genetics, Natural Theology (book), On the Origin of Species, Principles of Geology, Robert Shedinger, Royal Society, Scotland, South America, Theory of the Earth, uniformitarianism, William Paley}

Darwin’s Category Errors and Their Consequences

_{Neil Thomas
February 1, 2023

Evolution, Geology, Intelligent Design, Science

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Charles Darwin indiscriminately lumped together the organic and inorganic spheres — a grand category error. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 19, 2022

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Rare Earth
Tagged
, A Fortunate Universe, astrobiology, California, Dead Sea, earth, Enceladus, freezing, Goldilocks Zone, Jupiter, Michael Denton, NASA, Neptune, Purdue University, salinity, salt, Saturn, The Miracle of Man, The Privileged Planet, The Wonder of Water, University of Copenhagen, water}

Salt of the Earth Regulates Habitability

_{David Coppedge
December 19, 2022

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Rare Earth

10}

A planet needs more than location in a habitable zone. It needs the right ingredients, and salt has a surprising role. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 7, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, agriculturalists, Amazonia, biosphere, Cambrian Explosion, carbon, Charles University, chlorophyll, Goldilocks Zone, Hunga-Tonga volcano, intelligent design, Johannes Gutenberg, Michael Denton, Nature (journal), Nature Scientific Reports, nitrogen, oxygen theory, Paleozoic, phosphorus, phytoplankton, prior fitness, supply chain, vertebrates, volcanoes}

Is There Enough Phosphorus for Us?

_{David Coppedge
September 7, 2022

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

10}

The element phosphorus, on which life heavily depends for its codes and metabolic processes, is a limiting factor for complex beings on habitable planets. Read More ›

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post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 27, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, biological systems, co-option, coevolution, Darwinian mechanism, Darwinists, Douglas Axe, evolution, evolutionary pathways, Goldilocks Zone, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, mathematician, Michael Behe, No Free Lunch, probabilities, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism}

Jason Rosenhouse and “Mathematical Proof”

_{William A. Dembski
June 27, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Darwinists have always hidden behind the complexities of biological systems. As always, they assume no burden of proof. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
December 10, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Anthony Flew, Arthur Eddington, atheism, Carlo Rovelli, Christian de Duve, Eric Metaxas, Goldilocks Zone, intelligent design, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Nobel laureates, quantum physics, The Return to the God Paradigm (series), theism, Uncertainty Principle, Werner Heisenberg}

The Tip of a Larger Iceberg

_{Neil Thomas
December 10, 2021

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Our profound ignorance of what Lucretius termed the nature of things has been revealed by the work of Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Heisenberg. Read More ›

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Date
October 28, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP synthase, cellular functions, chemical bonds, enzymes, Eric Anderson, Goldilocks Zone, ID the Future, Michael Denton}

Finely Tuned Chemistry and ATP Synthase

_{Science and Culture
October 28, 2020

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Cellular life would be impossible if strong bonds weren’t just so for some cellular functions, and if weak bonds weren’t just so for others. Read More ›