Tag: Holy Grail

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Author
Kyle Dillon

Date
July 21, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaequatio intellectus ad pulchrum, adaequatio intellectus ad rem, Alvin Plantinga, Artemis II, astronomers, astronomy, beauty, Emmanuel Kant, First Law of Planetary Motion, geocentric model, Harmonice Mundi, Harmonies of the World, heliocentric model, Henri Poincaré, Holy Grail, Johannes Kepler, Justice Potter Stewart, mathematical formulas, Mortimer Adler, NASA, Nicolaus Copernicus, science, Science and Beauty (series), scientific revolution, Supreme Court, theology, Thomas Aquinas, universe, Where the Conflict Really Lies}

Beauty and Science: Canvas of the Great Creator

_{Rev. Kyle A. Dillon
July 21, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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When Johannes Kepler discovered that his mathematical formula perfectly matched his experimental observations, he was euphoric. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 13, 2025

Categories
Origin of Life
Planetology
Rare Earth
Tagged
, algae, aliens, astrobiologists, bacteria, C.S. Lewis, chance, Christianity, European Space Agency, extraterrestrial life, Guillermo Gonzalez, Holy Grail, intelligent design, Jay Richards, materialists, methodological materialism, Milky Way, NASA, natural laws, natural selection, space exploration, The Privileged Planet}

God and the Odds of ET

_{Jonathan Witt
January 13, 2025

Origin of Life, Planetology, Rare Earth

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There is a rational and intellectually defensible strategy for maintaining a measure of optimism about the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, David Barash, dehumanization, evolutionary theory, Holy Grail, humans, humanzee, Nautilus, pain, Rob Sheldon, Soviet Union, Templeton Foundation, University of Washington, worms}

Return (Yet Again) of the Humanzee

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 14, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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So it comes down to a war on the human soul. Now, here’s the interesting part: Humans are self-evidently unique. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
November 30, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, biopolymers, chirality, DNA, glycans, Holy Grail, homochirality, intelligent design, Le Chatelier’s principle, lipids, Long Story Short, monomers, natural processes, nucleotides, Occam's Razor, polymerization, proteins, RNA, sugars, YouTube videos}

Long Story Short — Did Purely Natural Processes Produce Biopolymers?

_{Rob Stadler
November 30, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Science provides a clear expectation of what natural processes produce, and what we observe in the biopolymers of life is dramatically unexpected. Read More ›

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Date
June 15, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, Charles Darwin, Discovery Institute Press, early Earth, Eric Anderson, Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell, Holy Grail, ID the Future, perpetual motion machine, Richard Dawkins}

New ID Book Zeroes in on Evolution’s Zero-Probability Problem

_{Science & Culture
June 15, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Eric Anderson explores the challenges of building a self-replicating 3-D printer, and the light this sheds on the origin-of-life community’s search for their Holy Grail. Read More ›

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Author
Eric H. Anderson

Date
May 19, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, abiogenesis, bacteria, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, early Earth, factories, Harvard University, Holy Grail, Jack Szostak, Joseph Hooker, metabolic pathways, molecules, National Public Radio, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Oxford University, protoplasm, random mutations, Richard Dawkins, self-replication, The Selfish Gene}

Book Excerpt: A Factory That Builds Factories That Build Factories That…

_{Eric H. Anderson
May 19, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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“How close are we to understanding the origin of life?” a radio moderator asked atheist biologist Richard Dawkins. Read More ›