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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 18, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, abiogenesis, aliens, Avi Loeb, Big Bang, Carl Sagan, Center for Science and Culture, Francis Crick, Harvard University, intelligence, James Watson, New York Post, Nobel Prize, panspermia, Prometheus, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, UFOs}

Stephen Meyer: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and the God Hypothesis

_{David Klinghoffer
July 18, 2021

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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Mainstream scientists have been speculating about other-than-earthly intelligence for decades. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 12, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, accident, atheism, Casey Luskin, colleagues, creation myth, culture, Darwinism, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary biology, faith, Harvard University, human existence, intelligent design, Richard Lewontin}

Remembering a Biologist’s Remarkable Confession of Faith

_{Michael Egnor
July 12, 2021

Faith & Science

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I am not of the opinion that we should speak only good of the dead. The passing of a public figure is a good time to consider his impact. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, empirical science, evolution, Harvard University, Herbert Spencer, historical sciences, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jerry Fodor, just-so stories, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, methodological naturalism, On the Origin of Species, Richard Lewontin, Stephen Jay Gould, The New York Review of Books, What Darwin Got Wrong, William A. Dembski, zoologists}

Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field

_{Casey Luskin
July 6, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
July 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Science
Tagged
, ad hoc hypotheses, Darwinian theory, data, David Berlinski, fitness, genetics, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Marxism, Minnesota, Richard Lewontin, systematics, wisdom, Yiddish}

Richard Lewontin (1929-2021), Mensch

_{Paul Nelson
July 6, 2021

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Science

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As I stood by the lab doorway, Lewontin — who was sitting right down front — looked back towards the door and caught my eye. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 24, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abduction, babies, computers, Erik Larson, Go (game), Harvard University, humans, inference to the best explanation, Noam Chomsky, philosophers, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence}

Why Computers Will Likely Never Perform Abductive Inferences

_{William A. Dembski
April 24, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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If you are going to get a computer to achieve anything like understanding in some subject area, it needs a lot of knowledge. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 14, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, blood flow, brain, brain activity, fMRI, Harvard University, materialism, mind, neurons, neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, researchers}

Why a “Budding” Neuroscientist Is Skeptical of Brain Scans

_{Michael Egnor
April 14, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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A major thrust of neuroscience has been the use of fMRI to correlate brain activity with thinking and to draw conclusions about the physical basis of the mind. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 15, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, chemists, Denis Lamoureux, DNA, Goldilocks, Harvard University, heat, hydrothermal vents, James Tour, Jeffrey Bada, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, John Sutherland, Lawrence Krauss, monomers, Nature (journal), nucleotides, Peter Ward, polymers, RNA, Stanley Miller, Stephen Meyer, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, UV radiation, water}

Nature Article Admits Unanswered Origin-of-Life Questions, Exposing Broken Promises of ID Critics

_{Casey Luskin
February 15, 2021

Evolution, Origin of Life

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In 2016, physicist Lawrence Krauss promised, “We’re coming very close” to explaining the origin of life via chemical evolutionary models. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 8, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Harvard University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Paul Ashby, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer}

Paul Ashby — “Meyer Skewers Materialism”

_{David Klinghoffer
February 8, 2021

Faith & Science, Philosophy of Science

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Another stellar endorsement for Stephen Meyer's latest. Paul Ashby is a Harvard-trained physical chemist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 3, 2021

Categories
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Alice in Wonderland, Avi Loeb, black hole, earth, evolution, Harvard University, intelligent design, intelligent designer, Mars, Milky Way, Nobel Prize, Singularity, solar system, supernatural}

Is the Designer a Black Hole?

_{Michael Egnor
February 3, 2021

Mathematics, Physical Sciences

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Supernatural agents that exert natural effects are perfectly valid objects of scientific inquiry. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
January 28, 2021

Categories
Archaeology
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, 'Oumuamua, Avi Loeb, cosmic inflation, design detection, Design Inference, explanatory filter, extraterrestrial intelligence, Harvard University, Homo sapiens, intelligent design, philosophical naturalism, Principle of Mediocrity, Sean Carroll, technosignatures, William A. Dembski}

More on Avi Loeb’s Approach to Design Inferences

_{Paul Nelson
January 28, 2021

Archaeology, Physical Sciences

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Loeb’s argument represents the most salient example of risky intelligent design reasoning in mainstream science. Read More ›