Tag: ice

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 19, 2025

Categories
Environment & Climate
Geology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, ant navigation, archaeology, barnacle waterproof glue, Biomimetics, blowholes, butterfly colors, California, cryptology, crystallography, Death Valley, design filter, fine-tuning, forensic science, geomimetics, geophysics, geysers, ice, ice sheets, ID in Action, intelligent design, Jonathan Boreyko, lightning, magnets, mantis shrimp hammers, Oklo reactor, optimization, Racetrack Playa, Racetrack Valley, rocks, sailing stones, Smithsonian Magazine, snowflakes, spider webs, Virginia Tech, volcanoes}

Is Geomimetics an Intelligent Design Science? Well, Yes and No

_{David Coppedge
August 19, 2025

Environment & Climate, Geology, Intelligent Design

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Biomimetics, the imitation of nature’s designs, clearly qualifies as an ID science. What about “geomimetics” — the imitation of geophysics? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 13, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animals, arXiv, astrobiology, bioconstruction, bioerosion, biosphere, bioturbation, earth, elephants, Eörs Szathmáry, floods, habitability, ice, inhabitation, intelligent design, Jorge I. Zuluaga, livestock, Mars, materialists, Michael Denton, Michael Marshall, Montana State University, natural selection, New Scientist, PNAS, sauropods, The Planetary Society, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, vitalism, W. Ford Doolittle, water}

Life as a Habitability Requirement

_{David Coppedge
March 13, 2025

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

9}

Astrobiologists often speak of a planet’s requirements for life, but can we turn that around? Is life a requirement for a planet’s habitability? Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
December 3, 2024

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, ambient temperature, amino acids, bones, breast milk, butterflies, campfire, Carl Jung, clouds, coincidences, Discovery Institute, Doctor's Diary (series), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, enzyme, femur, Florence, glucose, Harvest House, humerus, ice, iron, Michael Denton, moths, Mount Rushmore, nucleotide, Oregon, oxygen, Pacific Northwest, potassium, sodium, synchronicity, The Design Inference, vitamin B12, water, What Darwin Didn’t Know, William A. Dembski}

Doctor’s Diary: No Such Thing as a Coincidence

_{Geoffrey Simmons
December 3, 2024

Botany, Life Sciences, Medicine

11}

I find coincidences everywhere I look, all the time. Consider a simple blade of grass. One could write a long treatise about the simultaneous goings-on therein. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 18, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, biological systems, blood, capillaries, carbon dioxide, cells, chloroplasts, complex life, Fred Hoyle, hydrological cycle, ice, intelligent design, Michael Denton, minerals, oceans, photosynthesis, prior probability, surface tension, The Wonder of Water, universal solvent, viscosity, water, weathering}

The Properties of Water Point to Intelligent Design

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 18, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

7}

It becomes increasingly difficult to deny what Fred Hoyle called a “common sense interpretation of the facts.” Read More ›

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Date
December 23, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antarctica, calcium, cobalt, Communications Earth & Environment, Design of Life, enzymes, Flight: The Genius of Birds, Freeman Dyson, Freshwater, Geophysical Research Letters, glaciers, Greenland, ice, Illustra Media, iron, krill, magnesium, manganese, materialists, metals, Michael Denton, molybdenum, PNAS, potassium, Privileged Species, rivers, sodium, The Wonder of Water, trace elements, vitamin B12}

Glaciers Enhance the Biosphere — By Design

_{Science and Culture
December 23, 2020

Intelligent Design

7}

Glacial meltwater performs unexpected and surprising roles that benefit life on earth. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 4, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Brian Miller, building blocks, Discovery Institute, entropy, ice, James Tour, Rice University, thermodynamics}

Preview: James Tour Asks Brian Miller About Ice, Entropy, and the Origin of Life

_{David Klinghoffer
December 4, 2020

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

3}

Dr. Tour wants to know: "This is the origin of life. How did that first living system form?" Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 25, 2019

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, earth, foresight, ice, intelligent design, lakes, life, Marcos Eberlin, Seattle, supernatural, water}

Watch: Chemist Marcos Eberlin on Water as a “Supernatural Liquid”

_{David Klinghoffer
June 25, 2019

Chemistry, Intelligent Design

2}

A humble glass of water out of the kitchen faucet — nothing special there, right? Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
January 30, 2018

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, ambient temperature, freezing, hydrological cycle, ice, intelligent design, life, Michael Denton, minerals, mountains, ocean, Paul Davies, rocks, Seattle, soil, surface tension, The Wonder of Water}

Behind Water’s Beauty, Wondrous Utility

_{Sarah Chaffee
January 30, 2018

Botany, Intelligent Design

4}

"The hydrological cycle has reliably delivered water to the terrestrial ecosystems of planet Earth for millions of years." Read More ›

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Date
December 21, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, ATP, biophysics, earth, electrical power, hydrogen, hydrophobic, ice, information, Michael Denton, Nanoscale, Philip Ball, PNAS, proteins, temperature, The Wonder of Water, Velcro, viscosity, water}

The Wonder of Water at the Nanoscale

_{Science and Culture
December 21, 2017

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

10}

More detail has come out on the fascinating role of water in cellular dynamics, touched on by Denton in his book, The Wonder of Water. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 17, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, body heat, circulatory system, evaporation, fire, Fire-Maker, flooding, hurricane, ice, intelligent design, mammals, Michael Denton, Privileged Species, The Wonder of Water, universal solvent, viscosity, water, water cycle}

Water, Ultimate Giver of Life, Points to Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
October 17, 2017

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

3}

Fire and water — could there be a more iconic dual symbol of the way our world, or its designer, saw us coming and carefully prepared the way? Read More ›