Tag: intelligent cause

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
June 26, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, aeons, assumptions, Bars-Steinhardt-Turok model, black holes, Boltzmann brain, bouncing cosmologies, concentric low-variance circles, conformal cyclic cosmology, consciousness, cosmic microwave background, cyclic cosmologies, dark matter, de Sitter horizon entropy, disorder, Douglas Scott, Edward Tryon, entropy, erebon, fine-tuning, gravitational wave epoch, Hawking radiation, intelligent cause, Mount Everest, Phil Halper, physicists, physics, Roger Penrose, Sean McDowell, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, Tod equations, trilemma, universe, Weyl Curvature Hypothesis}

Fantasy in Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

_{Bruce Gordon
June 26, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

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Penrose was right, then, that fashion, faith, and fantasy have led much of modern cosmology astray. He was more right than he knew. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
March 11, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, Aristotelian cosmos, Copernican displacement, cosmic enormity, cosmic scale, cosmology, Dante, demotion, divine hiddenness, fine-tuning, fine-tuning argument, Hell, human centrality, intelligent cause, intelligibility, methodology, motivation, natural philosophy, naturalism, posteriors, priors, promotion, Psalms, Robert B. Stewart, Satan, scientific revolution, Scripture, Sean Carroll, Stephen Meyer, The Blackwell Companion to Christian Apologetics, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism, theology, Timothy McGrew, universe}

Sean Carroll and the Counter-Evidence Considered

_{Bruce Gordon
March 11, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

9}

My present concern is to articulate and confront Carroll's charge that the fine-tuning argument engages in some evidential shenanigans. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 11, 2026

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological complexity, designers, designs, engineering, engineers, evolution, evolutionary theory, human body, ID the Future, intelligent cause, intelligent design, mindless processes, naturalism, optimal engineering, podcast, researchers, scientific evidence, Stuart Burgess, trade-offs, Ultimate Engineering, University of Bristol}

Introducing Ultimate Engineering: A Conversation with Stuart Burgess

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 11, 2026

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

Evolutionary theory, unlike intelligent design, predicts a living world crowded with substandard designs. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 1, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, biology, cells, chemical balance, chemicals, Darwinian theory, Energy, engineering, Eric Anderson, friction, heat transfer, Howard Glicksman, human body, ID the Future, intelligent cause, matter, organisms, physicians, podcast, Steve Laufmann, system of systems, systems engineers, Your Designed Body}

The Ingenious Cellular Structure that Keeps Us Alive

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 1, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

2}

In the “just so” stories of the Darwinian narrative, these engineering solutions simply evolved. They emerged and got conserved. Voila! Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 3, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, asymmetry, Brian Miller, Ellie Feder, ID the Future, intelligent cause, laws of nature, math, mathematics, Max Tegmark, multiverse, physics, Physics to God, podcasts, Science Uprising, selection, Stephen Meyer, universe}

Examining Max Tegmark’s Mathematical Universe Hypothesis

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 3, 2025

Cosmology, Physics

3}

According to this theory, every possible set of laws governs a universe, and our existence is simply explained by observer bias. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 23, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, Brian Miller, constants, Elie Feder, ID the Future, intelligent cause, mathematics, numbers, philosophy, physics, Physics to God, podcast, psychology, Richard Feynman}

Physics to God: Rational Arguments for Design in the Universe

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 23, 2025

Cosmology, Physics

3}

Do you recognize the number 1/137.035999206? It might seem arbitrary, but if the fine structure constant were any higher or lower, you might not exist! Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 26, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, anaphase, biology, cancer, cells, chromatids, chromosome, DNA, eukaryotic cell cycle, intelligent cause, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, kinetochore, mitotic cell division, mitotic spindle, oocytes, spindle assembly checkpoint, tumors}

How Do Mitotic Errors Affect Cell Proliferation?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 26, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

12}

This review furthers the argument that I have developed elsewhere that the eukaryotic cell division cycle is elegantly engineered and irreducibly complex. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 13, 2025

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemistry, biology, Charles Darwin, Clockwork, Darwin's Black Box, designer, DNA replication, Douglas Axe, evolution, hearing, intelligent cause, intelligent design, mechanics, Michael Behe, mind, Undeniable (book)}

Molecular Animations Reveal Exquisite Design

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 13, 2025

Biochemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

It is hard to watch these animations and not come away with the strong sense that these systems are the product of a conscious mind. Read More ›

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Author
Aaron Zimmer

Date
May 8, 2025

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, atoms, electron, fine-tuning, galaxies, intelligent cause, life, molecules, multiverse, natural constants, planets, scientists, stars, universe}

The Purpose of Cosmic Fine-Tuning

_{Aaron Zimmer
May 8, 2025

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics

2}

True, without fine-tuning there would be no life, but that’s only because life depends on everything else, like atoms and stars. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
April 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, agency, archaeology, Big Bang, biology, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, cells, complex and specified information, DNA, embryo, evolutionary, evolutionism, genes, heresy, historical sciences, history, immaterial genome, intelligent cause, intelligent design, J. Scott Turner, National Museum of Natural History, peer-reviewed literature, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonism, purpose, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Wall Street Journal}

Plato’s Revenge: Intelligent Design in Real Time

_{Emily Sandico
April 28, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

5}

David Klinghoffer engages Richard Sternberg’s big questions, and a number of his own, on philosophical, scientific, and even highly personal planes. Read More ›