Tag: historians

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
August 12, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, augustine, Basil Willey, Christianity, Church Fathers, computer scientists, Copernican Revolution, creationists, Darwinian evolution, evolution, faith and science, historians, intelligent design, Scripture, The Heavens the Waters and the Partridge, theologians, theology, Thomas Aquinas, universal common ancestry, Winston Ewert}

What’s Bothering Augustine?

_{Winston Ewert
August 12, 2025

Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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I began to understand that there was a rich history of the interaction between the Church and premodern science, but not one that is widely known. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 18, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Psychology
Tagged
, biology, Charles Darwin, evolution, historians, natural, Nature, nihilism, purpose, sexuality, transphobia, unnatural, Wikipedia, Yuval Noah Harari}

Harari: “Darwin Is the Prophet”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 18, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Psychology

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I’ve never heard evolution and nihilism connected so clearly and concisely, and the implications vastly exceed sexuality. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
December 16, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptations, Asa Gray, biologists, butterflies, Cambridge University Press, Darwin Mythology, final cause, Friedrich Engels, Harvard University, historians, Karl Marx, mimicry, purpose, teleology, William Graham}

Did Darwin Banish Teleology from Nature or Not?

_{Richard Weikart
December 16, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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James G. Lennox quotes from an 1862 essay, where Darwin wrote that “the final cause of all this mimicry” among butterflies is evading predation. Read More ›

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Date
December 12, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, bias, Big Bang, Durham University, goal-directedness, Goldilocks, historians, multiverse, particles, Philip Goff, thought, universe}

Why the Multiverse Theory Can’t Explain Away Cosmic Fine-Tuning

_{Science & Culture
December 12, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

3}

Many thoughtful people in science today would see the goal of science as explaining away both goal-directedness and thought. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 28, 2024

Categories
Archaeology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, algorithms, anthropologists, archaeologists, design detection, design filter, graffiti, historians, history, intelligent design, New Scientist, Peru, PNAS, UNESCO}

Using AI to Discover Intelligent Design

_{David Coppedge
October 28, 2024

Archaeology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

7}

Hundreds of faint archaeological geoglyphs were found by training AI on aerial photographs of the Nazca plain in Peru. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 17, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, China, Christianity, Egypt, Europe, Galileo Galilei, historians, history, Isaac Newton, James Tour, Johannes Kepler, pyramids, Robert Boyle, Rome, scientific revolution, Stephen Meyer}

Stephen Meyer and James Tour on Isaac Newton: “Why There, Why Then?”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 17, 2024

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

2}

"Why did science arise in its modern form with its distinctive systematic methods of investigating nature in 16th- and 17th-century Europe?" Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 17, 2023

Categories
Biology
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academia, administrators, Andrew McDiarmid, CNN, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), gender, genocide, Harvard University, historians, humanities, ID the Future, intelligent causes, methodological naturalism, methodological pluralism, Michael Keas, MIT, natural causes, Peggy Noonan, podcast, professors, race, scholars, tenure, universities, University of Pennsylvania, Wall Street Journal, woke ideology, worldview}

Recognizing the Scandal in the Universities — Will It Extend to Origins Science?

_{David Klinghoffer
December 17, 2023

Biology, Science Education, Scientific Freedom

4}

The regime of methodological naturalism is affirmative action for scientific ideas. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 25, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Science Reporting
Tagged
, autistism, Christianity, Christmas, Christmas Eve, faith, historians, intelligent design, magic wand, mathematician, miracles, New Testament, New York Times, suffering, University of Chicago, University of North Carolina, William A. Dembski}

Dembski and the Miraculous

_{David Klinghoffer
December 25, 2022

Bioethics, Culture, Faith & Science, Philosophy, Science Reporting

2}

"Dr. Dembski’s family has learned to look for the miraculous in everyday loving encounters." Read More ›

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Date
March 27, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, birds, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian evolution, diversification, historians, humans, hummingbird, intelligent design, journalists, Michael Behe, ostrich, PLOS Biology, scientists, theropod}

How the Raven Said “Nevermore”

_{Science & Culture
March 27, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Watch how easy it is to tell a Darwinian story. If something exists and looks advantageous, it evolved. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
January 21, 2019

Categories
Astronomy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Aristotle, Christianity, earth, Flat Earth myth, geocentrism, heliocentrism, historians, Indiana, lunar eclipse, Michael Keas, Moon, Myth of the Dark Ages, Ptolemy, Romans, Unbelievable}

Of Lunar Eclipses and the Dark Ages Myth

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
January 21, 2019

Astronomy, Physical Sciences

2}

Last night Americans across the continent were treated to a most beautiful and informative natural phenomenon. Read More ›