Tag: J. Budziszewski

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
April 10, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, coherence theory of truth, consensus, consensus theory of truth, consequences, correspondence view of truth, Darwinism, Darwinists, evolution, intelligent design, J. Budziszewski, Napoleon, Pandemic of Lunacy, poached eggs, pragmatism, pragmatist philosophers, reality, schizophrenics, scientific controversy, snow, status signaling, truth, white}

What’s So Hard About Scientific Controversy? Addressing Bad Theories of Truth

_{Terrell Clemmons
April 10, 2026

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

5}

The consensus theory says that truth is whatever we all agree about. Needless to say, that fits right into what we were saying about status signaling. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
April 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Blaise Pascal, COVID-19, Darwinism, epidemiologists, experts, global cooling, global warming, Great Barrington Declaration, House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, intelligent design, J. Budziszewski, Jonathan Haidt, journalists, medical professionals, Pandemic of Lunacy, People for the American Way, political debates, psychologist, schools, scientists, University of Texas at Austin, workplaces}

Questioning the Science Experts: Is It Even Permitted?

_{Terrell Clemmons
April 9, 2026

Evolution, Medicine, Scientific Reasoning

9}

If you're trying to do ID science, it's a little bit easier to be intellectually honest, because you have to work harder to make the case for your claim. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
April 7, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, Bible, biology, chemists, Darwinism, intelligent design, J. Budziszewski, jobs, materialistic paradigm, meaning, media, morality, natural law theory, Pandemic of Lunacy, peer pressure, Phillip Johnson, promotion, snake handlers, social status, status signaling, University of Texas at Austin, yahoos}

Status Signaling in the Herd: Why Otherwise Good Scientists Sneer at Intelligent Design

_{Terrell Clemmons
April 7, 2026

Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

7}

"Here is Johnson, giving a very studious argument for ID, and the other fellow thinks it’s sufficient to say, 'I know it's wrong because my friend told me.'" Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
March 24, 2026

Categories
Political Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alexis de Tocqueville, anarchists, authority, birds, capitalists, Christianity, Christians, conformism, Congress, Dorothy Sayers, England, ethics, evil, faith and reason, food, good, intellectual authority, J. Budziszewski, Jews, Karl Marx, laboratory animals, libertarians, murmurations, mysteries, nonbelievers, Pandemic of Lunacy, Politics, pro-choice, public opinion, right, sanity, socialists, souls, status, status signaling, virtue signaling, wokeness, wrong}

The Flocking of Crowds: The Secular University and Unstable Mass Conformism

_{Terrell Clemmons
March 24, 2026

Political Science, Scientific Reasoning

10}

A bird sees another bird next to him fluttering, and he wants to flutter that way, too. Read More ›

Close up of mouth and red lips swallowing white capsule medecine pill

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
March 23, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, abortion, atheists, Aztecs, Baal, biologists, boyfriend, Center for Science and Culture, deception, epiphany, feminists, Gone with the Wind, habitual knowledge, intelligent design, irrationality, J. Budziszewski, knowledge, libido, lightness, lunacy, materialists, motivated irrationality, Pandemic of Lunacy, particles, purity, rational minds, rationalizations, reconciliatory urge, Richard Lewontin, Romans, Scarlett O'Hara, scientific knowledge, sexual drive, Sigmund Freud, truth}

Motivated Irrationality: Why Even Smart People Swallow Crackpot Ideas

_{Terrell Clemmons
March 23, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

11}

A critic will just fling out an objection, intelligent design thinkers will reply, and the reply is totally ignored. Read More ›

Out of the Loop. Abstract illustration. Man stands in a post-apocalyptic wasteland city near a giant concrete circle portal.

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
March 20, 2026

Categories
Culture
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, adulthood, angels, atheists, C. S. Lewis, children, Christianity, Dante Alighieri, evil, faith, grown children, Heaven, J. Budziszewski, Jesus Christ, materialism, natural law, New Deal, nihilism, Politics, pride, privation theory of evil, radicalism, scholarship, sin, Socialist Party, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, teaching, truth, University of Texas, Young People's Socialist League}

Back from the Wasteland: J. Budziszewski on His Intellectual and Spiritual Journey

_{Terrell Clemmons
March 20, 2026

Culture, Ethics, Faith & Science

8}

"In the reconstruction period, it was as though I had been living in a dark attic, but now the shutters were being thrown back." Read More ›

Lonely Poor Boy Facing Backward Against Black

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
March 19, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Philosophy
Tagged
, after-birth abortion, authoritarianism, bathrooms, Christian apologetics, Creed & Culture, experts, family, government, happiness, J. Budziszewski, lunacy, medical ethics, neutrality, pandemic, Pandemic of Lunacy, partisanship, philosophy, Politics, religion, sanity, sexuality, study groups, tampons, University of Texas, virtue}

Why Are We Going Crazy? New Book Has a Diagnosis

_{Terrell Clemmons
March 19, 2026

Ethics, Medicine, Philosophy

4}

“So-called neutrality is really bad-faith authoritarianism. Whatever view succeeds in passing itself off as neutral wins without making a case for itself.” Read More ›

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Date
November 25, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design, Brian Miller, creator, death, Discovery Institute Press, disease, evolutionary theory, Father Martin Hilbert, Father Michael Chaberek, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, J. Budziszewski, Jay W. Richards, Roman Catholic, suffering, theistic evolution, theology}

New Book Makes the Catholic Case for Intelligent Design

_{Science & Culture
November 25, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

5}

Fr. Martin Hilbert explains why the theory of intelligent design, rightly understood, harmonizes perfectly with the Catholic theological tradition. Read More ›

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Date
April 21, 2023

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Aquinas and Evolution, Christianity, Dante, evolution, evolutionary theory, faith and science, Father Michael Chaberek, God's Grandeur, Günter Bechly, human race, ID the Future, intelligent design, J. Budziszewski, Jay Richards, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, philosophers, podcast, Roman Catholic, scientists, theologians, universe}

Grand Design: Biologist Ann Gauger Discusses the Catholic Case for ID

_{Science & Culture
April 21, 2023

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

2}

Gauger gives a summary of the book’, tells how she found her way into the intelligent design fold, and explains why Catholics should reject evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Date
April 17, 2023

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Anthony Esolen, Benjamin Wiker, Bruce Chapman, Cambridge University Press, Darwin Devolves, Darwin's Black Box, Discovery Institute, evolution, faith and science, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, J. Budziszewski, Jay Richards, Michael Behe, Michael Chaberek, Michael Egnor, philosophers, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic, theology, Thomas Aquinas}

New Book Offers the CATHOLIC Case for Intelligent Design

_{Science & Culture
April 17, 2023

Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

5}

The world — indeed, the universe — is charged with grandeur. Everything speaks of its beauty, power, and purpose — of its exquisite and intelligent design. Read More ›