Tag: initial conditions

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 14, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, arguments, authority, bioscientists, cosmic fine-tuning, discoveries, evidence, ID the Future, initial conditions, intelligent design, life, materialism, materialistic mindset, methodological naturalism, Michael Kent, natural constants, naturalism, origin of life, podcast, scientific authorities, truth, unguided process, universe, worldview}

Don’t Let Scientific Elites Settle the Question of Design in Nature for You

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 14, 2025

Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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When it comes to science, many people don’t take the time to learn the evidence and arguments directly. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
February 27, 2025

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Albuquerque, Cambrian Explosion, Center for Science and Culture, DNA, Energy, enzymes, evolution, fossil record, genes, information, initial conditions, intelligent design, junk DNA, life, matter, mutations, natural selection, non-coding DNA, overlapping codes, physical constants, proteins, space-time, spliceosome, universe, University of New Mexico, video}

Michael Kent: “12 Discoveries That Have Changed the Debate about Design”

_{Granville Sewell
February 27, 2025

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Michael Kent is a Fellow with the Center for Science and Culture and a recently retired bio-scientist from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 6, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, Brian Miller, Elie Feder, ID the Future, initial conditions, intelligent cause, intelligent design, mathematician, multiverse, physicists, Physics to God, podcast, science fiction, universe}

Rejecting the Multiverse: Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 6, 2025

Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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It can be tempting to dismiss the idea of the multiverse as unobservable fantasy. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
September 5, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, anthropic fine-tuning, creation, creator, entropy, fine structure constant, initial conditions, John Templeton Foundation, particle physics, Robin Collins, signal, The Privileged Planet, Yale University}

Robin Collins’s “Fine-Tuning for Discoverability” Argument

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
September 5, 2024

Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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In November 2000 we each presented at the “Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe” symposium at Yale University. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, analogy, bacterial flagellum, complexity, Design Inference, evolution, evolutionary theory, gambling, initial conditions, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, jackpot, laws of nature, living systems, molecular machines, natural processes, natural selection, protein evolution, proteins, Rope Kojonen, serendipity, Stephen Dilley, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), theist on the street, universe, University of Helsinki}

Intelligently Designed Evolution? Sorry, Wrong Universe

_{Casey Luskin
February 15, 2024

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Many in the intelligent design camp have considered the possibility that the evolutionary process was designed. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, California, information, initial conditions, intelligent design, laws of nature, molecular biology, molecules, pool (game), preconditions, Religions (journal), Return of the God Hypothesis, Rope Kojonen, Stephen Meyer, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), University of Southern California}

Could Finely Tuned Initial Conditions Create Biological Organisms?

_{Emily Reeves
January 3, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Theologian Rope Kojonen, in an attempt to wed design and evolution, allows for this interpretation in his recent book. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 2, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, behavior, Big Bang, biological complexity, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, convergence, death, diversity, Douglas Axe, environmental conditions, enzymes, equilibrium, evolution, evolutionary algorithms, George Ellis, gravity, initial conditions, intelligent design, laws of nature, leaves, mass-energy, material mechanisms, natural selection, Nature (journal), nucleotide sequences, periodic table of elements, phenotypic plasticity, proteins, quantum physics, Rope Kojonen, Second Law of Thermodynamics, stem cells, Stephen Dilley, structuralism, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series), theistic evolution, thermodynamics}

Physics and Chemistry Could Not Give Rise to Biology

_{Emily Reeves
January 2, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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The laws of nature provide stable conditions and physical boundaries within which biological outcomes are possible. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 26, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
Physics
Science
Tagged
, Big Bang, CERN, cosmic microwave background, God Hypothesis, initial conditions, intelligent design, Large Hadron Collider, mass-energy, quantum gravity, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roger Penrose, Sabine Hossenfelder, Stephen Hawking, universe}

Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder on the Deficiency of Alternative Models to Big Bang Cosmology

_{Brian Miller
September 26, 2022

Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences, Physics, Science

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Hossenfelder concludes that “we are facing the limits of science itself.” And the question of the universe’s origin “we’ll never be able to answer.” Read More ›

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post

Date
December 7, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, biophysicists, Cornelius Hunter, David Hume, determinism, free will, ID the Future, initial conditions, Ludwig van Beethoven, Mike Keas, natural law, podcast, Sabine Hossenfelder, Science, universe, William Shakespeare}

Determinism: A “Bizarre Position” Held by Scientists “with Great Confidence”

_{Science and Culture
December 7, 2020

Physical Sciences, Physics

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If it’s true, then all one says or thinks — right or wrong, true or false — was determined some 13.8 billion years ago. Read More ›