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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 16, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, atheism, bias, Christianity, creativity, Darwinian mechanism, evolutionary biologists, faith and science, geneticists, ID the Future, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, materialists, plants, podcast, religion, Richard Buggs, rigor, Robert Boyle, science, science stopper, scientific process, scientific revolution, scientists, Stephen Meyer}

In Science, Faith Can Improve Rigor and Creativity

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 16, 2025

Faith & Science, Genetics, Scientific Reasoning

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Contrary to the prevailing view, plant geneticist Richard Buggs says his Christian faith motivates his research. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 11, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, asteroids, coincidences, comets, earth, fine-tuning, geocentric model, Golden Ratio, Guillermo Gonzalez, heliocentric model, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Jay Richards, kinetic energy, Mars, Mercury, moons, NASA, physics, planets, quantum effects, solar system, sun, The Privileged Planet, Venus}

Geometric Design in the Solar System

_{Eric Hedin
August 11, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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My favorite example of such geometric design arises from the mean orbits of our innermost two planets, Mercury and Venus. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 20, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, aborigines, Africans, Alfred Russel Wallace, apes, Asia, Australia, Charles Darwin, HMS Beagle, Indonesia, Isaac Newton, Lord Monboddo, man, Racism, scientific racism, The Descent of Man, Tierra del Fuego, William Shakespeare}

How Darwin Recruited Racism to His Theory

_{Daniel Witt
June 20, 2025

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution

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Charles Darwin formulated his theory at a time when it was commonly assumed that different races of humans had different natural levels of intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
May 31, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, anticipation, August Weismann, Bible, biosphere, building blocks, causation, Chance and Necessity, cognition, Design Inference, DNA, electromagnetism, Ferrari, final cause, flowering plants, Francis Crick, grizzly bear, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Jaques Monod, natural selection, natural theology, necessity, nectar, pollinators, purpose, science of purpose, telos, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, tuna, William A. Dembski, wolf}

Teleology: Anticipation and Necessity

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
May 31, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Imagine a primordial grizzly bear on the northern edge of the forest adjacent to the Arctic. His soma senses the differences of the new environment. 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

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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
January 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Linguistics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, beauty, brain, choice, consciousness, creativity, death, Denyse O'Leary, Emily Reeves, engineers, functional complexity, harmony, human being, immaterial genome, intelligence, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, life after death, living things, meaning, Mind Matters, nature, near-death experiences, Philip Ball, physicists, proportion, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Sternberg, Stephen Meyer}

What Lies Beyond Death? A Physicist’s Take

_{Eric Hedin
January 28, 2025

Biology, Faith & Science, Linguistics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The very existence of life — the fact that we are here at all to the pose the question — calls for something more than physical nature. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
September 26, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, American Astronomical Society, Darwinism, defining id, defining science, defining terms, definist fallacy, Enlightenment, evolution, fear mongering, gravity, intelligent design, Is Darwinism a Theory in Crisis? (tribute series), Isaac Newton, materialism, Myth of the Dark Ages, naturalism, Nature (journal), peer review, pseudoscience, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn}

Theory in Crisis? Redefining Science

_{Jonathan Wells
September 26, 2024

Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Scientific revolutions are often marked by disputes over the “standard that distinguishes a real scientific solution from a mere metaphysical speculation.” Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
September 25, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antoine Lavoisier, Darwinism, evolution, Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, gravity, Is Darwinism a Theory in Crisis? (tribute series), Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Michael Denton, oxygen, paradigms, textbooks, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, theology, Thomas Kuhn}

Is Darwinism a Theory in Crisis?

_{Jonathan Wells
September 25, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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What does it mean to say that a theory is “in crisis”? It’s not enough to point out that a theory is inconsistent with evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
August 27, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Alaska, atmosphere, beauty, clouds, comets, earth, Isaac Newton, Jay Richards, Melissa Cain Travis, Museum of the Bible, nebulae, rainbows, scientific knowledge, solar system, stars, telescopes, The Privileged Planet, water cycle}

Beauty and Our Privileged Planet

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
August 27, 2024

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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As Jay Richards and I argue in our book, nature seems designed in such a way that the most habitable places are the best places to do science. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 12, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astrobiologists, astrobiology, atmosphere, Cassini mission, Enceladus, Eric Hedin, geysers, habitability, intelligent design, iron, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, magnetic field, Mars, Michael Denton, Saturn, Science Advances, temperature, Titan, Voyager spacecraft, Yellowstone}

Enceladus as a Habitability Test

_{David Coppedge
August 12, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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High up on the astrobiologists’ bucket list for further exploration is a little moon of Saturn. How lively could it be at Enceladus? Read More ›