Tag: intention

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Author
Walter Myers III

Date
April 30, 2026

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aristotle, automobiles, beauty, biology, Cambrian Explosion, Darwinian theory, DNA, documentary, double helix, embryonic development, fossil record, Francis Crick, gibberish, gratuitous beauty, human beings, information, intelligent design, intention, living cell, Michael Behe, mind, mutations, peacock, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Sternberg, scholarship, science, skyscrapers, smartphones, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, undirected processes}

The Story to Which Biology, Considered Honestly, Must Lead

_{Walter Myers III
April 30, 2026

Biology, Intelligent Design

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Perhaps the most arresting challenge to the materialist account of life is one that cannot be quantified at all. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 8, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, biology, Casey Luskin, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Denis Noble, Discovery Institute, engineering, engineers, function, ID 3.0, information, intelligent design, intention, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, Perry Marshall, purpose, random mutation, randomness, teleology, Third Way of Evolution, Venn diagram}

Here’s the Venn Diagram from My Conversation with Denis Noble

_{Casey Luskin
August 8, 2025

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

While preparing for the conversation, I created the diagram comparing the similarities and differences among three viewpoints. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 5, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Medicine
Tagged
, bioethicists, brain, brain death, cardiac arrest, circulation, comatose, consciousness, equality, health care, heart, human life, intention, medicine, memory, New York Times, organ donors, organ-harvesting, organs, patients, trust}

Killing for Organs — Who Could Possibly Object?

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 5, 2025

Bioethics, Biology, Medicine

4}

Three doctors promote the idea of “redefining death” to allow patients to be killed for their organs. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 22, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, Antony Flew, central dogma, Chance & Necessity, Charles Darwin, Daniel Witt, Design Inference, Erwin Schrödinger, Eugene Wigner, Francis Crick, God Hypothesis, intention, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Jaques Monod, Life Itself, materialism, Michael Levin, molecular biology, natural law, physicalism, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, scientific atheism, scientism, specified complexity, telos, theologians, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Kuhn}

Life Itself: In Michael Levin’s Platonism, Teleology Advances

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 22, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

11}

This is a huge step by a leading contemporary academic scientist away from pure physicalism. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 11, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Anton Zeilinger, atoms, Canceled Science, electromagnetic radiation, Energy, Genesis, Gospel of John, helium, hydrogen, information, intelligent design, intention, matter, Max Planck, mind, Niels Bohr, nuclear fusion, particles, Planck’s constant, protons, quantum effects, quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, sun, universe}

Thank God for Quantum Mechanics

_{Eric Hedin
May 11, 2023

Chemistry, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

7}

An example of how quantum effects permit life as we know it operates in the nuclear furnace of the Sun. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 30, 2022

Categories
Planetology
Rare Earth
Tagged
, biosignatures, birds, cosmos, dolphins, extraterrestrial life, Forensics, intelligence, intelligent life, intention, National Geographic, space aliens}

The Silence of the Space Aliens

_{David Coppedge
August 30, 2022

Planetology, Rare Earth

5}

The SEETI thinkers are looking for signs of intention. Even in global death, they believe they could separate natural causes from intelligent causes. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 26, 2020

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, agency, bacteria, illusion, intention, life, Michael Denton, neutrophils, physiology, Purpose and Desire, Robert Crowther, Scott Turner, The Miracle of the Cell}

Intention, Agency, Even in “Simple” Life Is No Illusion

_{David Klinghoffer
September 26, 2020

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

2}

As biologist Scott Turner explains, the appearance is not false but very real, a fact from whose profound implications most scientists veil their eyes. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
March 19, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, __k-review, addiction, determinism, health, intelligent design, intention, learning, Mount Rainier, music, musicians, randomness, running, specified complexity, William A. Dembski}

Specified Complexity Is All Around Us

_{Sarah Chaffee
March 19, 2019

Intelligent Design, Linguistics

4}

A key idea in the theory of ID is specification, or matching a pattern. Specified, complex information is a hallmark of intelligent activity. Read More ›