Tag: intelligent causation

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 27, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aquinas’ Fifth Way, Aristotle, C. W. Howell, capitalism, Casey Luskin, Christianity, Daniel Kuebler, Darwin and Doctrine, Designer Science, Edward Feser, faith and science, Fr. Michael Chaberek, Franciscan University of Steubenville, intelligence, intelligent causation, intelligent design, James R. Hofmann, Jerry Coyne, Karl Marx, Logan Gage, metaphysics, Michael Behe, philosophers, poor design, purpose, Robert Koons, theologians, theology, Thomas Aquinas, unintelligent entities, William Dembski}

Designer Science Repeats Common Misunderstandings of Thomas Aquinas

_{Brian Miller
May 27, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Aquinas argues that intelligence is recognized precisely because unintelligent entities achieve purposeful ends only when directed by an intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 18, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, alternative splicing, amino acids, animation, complexity, development, DNA, eukaryotes, evolution, exons, Francis Crick, genes, intelligent causation, intelligent design, introns, junk DNA, MicroRNAs, mRNA, proteins, Ribosome, spliceosome, splicing}

Evolutionary Obstacles to the Origin of Introns

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 18, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The only type of explanation that adequately accounts for this type of phenomenon is a goal-directed, or intelligent, cause. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 16, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, Brian Miller, carpenter, cosmic fine-tuning, Elie Feder, foresight, ID the Future, intelligent causation, Physics to God, podcast, purpose, rabbis, teleology, universe}

How Modern Physics Reveals Purpose in the Universe

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 16, 2023

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Scientists agree that our universe is finely tuned for the existence of life. But is the fine-tuning a happy accident or the result of foresight? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 12, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, CELS, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, earth, Eric Anderson, fossil record, ID the Future, intelligent causation, intelligent design, paleomagnetism, paleontology, podcast, punctuated equilibrium, stasis, Stephen Meyer, Theistic Evolution (book), University of Johannesburg}

Why Intelligent Design Best Explains the Fossil Record Data

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 12, 2023

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The fossil record is consistent with the engineering-based theory of bounded adaptation Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
March 30, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, aliens, astronomers, atheism, Avi Loeb, evidence, Harvard University, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Jonah Goldberg, methodological naturalism, rocks, science stopper, Twitter}

Avi Loeb Bumps Up Against Methodological Naturalism

_{Paul Nelson
March 30, 2023

Astronomy, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Planetology

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Jonah Goldberg talked with Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb about “Oumuamua, Alien Life & Fighting the Mainstream Science Community.” Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 6, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Columbia University, David Kipping, design detection, Illinois, intelligence, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Lex Fridman, universe}

Watch: Here Are Several Minutes of Design-Detection Brainstorming with Lex Fridman

_{Paul Nelson
February 6, 2023

Astronomy, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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I’ve never heard such a concise account of the principal methodological difficulties of inferring an unconstrained intelligence as a TESTABLE cause. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
November 3, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Assembly Theory, bacteria, Cambridge University Press, design detection, Elisabeth Bik, fraud, intelligence, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Lee Cronin, New York Times, pattern, probability, Retraction Crisis, Sara Walker, specification, Twitter, William A. Dembski}

Design Detection in the New York Times — The Issue of Science Fraud

_{Paul Nelson
November 3, 2022

Intelligent Design, Science

3}

When the pincer closes around a pattern, intelligent causation is uniquely implicated. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 11, 2021

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Design Inference, human origins, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Neanderthals, ochre, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Spain, water}

Painting by Neanderthals? Study Makes a Design Inference

_{Casey Luskin
August 11, 2021

Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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An observation that supports a non-natural origin is that the pigment appears only in a small, conspicuous location. 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
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 5, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, Dallas Science and Faith Conference, earth, ignorance, intelligent causation, intelligent design, James Tour, malpractice, mystery, nanotechnology, Rice University, science media, Science Uprising, spontaneous generation, Stephen Hawking, synthetic organic chemistry}

Chemist James Tour: The Unacknowledged Mystery of Life’s Origin

_{David Klinghoffer
July 5, 2019

Evolution, Origin of Life

3}

The problem isn’t that “We have no idea” how life originated. Admitting ignorance is a good thing! Read More ›