Tag: Jonathan Witt

Women, man and hospital bed in motion blur of emergency surgery, healthcare wellness or risk condition operation. Doctors, nurses and medical workers with patient in busy er, theatre room or teamwork

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 3, 2026

Categories
History of Science
Medicine
Tagged
, Chicago, deaths, demon core, disaster preparedness, disasters, Discovery Institute Press, Geoffrey Simmons, Hurricane Rita, Jonathan Witt, medicine, neighborhood, novels, prepping, Ready.gov, Robert Oppenheimer, thrillers}

The Real-Life Medicine and Science Behind Oppenheimer’s Demon

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 3, 2026

History of Science, Medicine

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Novelist Geoffrey Simmons explains how he drew on his background as an ER doctor and disaster preparedness expert to make his story real and plausible. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 28, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, academic freedom, characters, Chicago, Community Emergency Response Team, Darwinists, demon core, disaster medicine, Discovery Institute Press, district attorney, FEMA, Geoffrey Simmons, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, Manhattan Project, neurosurgeons, nuclear terrorist, plot}

Geoffrey Simmons: Man’s Beginning — And His End?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 28, 2026

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Technology

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Have you ever read a book in which both the origin and end of man hang in the balance? That’s a rare combination that comes together in a new thriller novel. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 24, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, academic freedom, adults, African-Americans, American Prometheus, bacterial flagellum, bio-warfare, Blue Angels, British Museum, Chicago, Christians, complex specified information, Dan Brown, Discovery Institute Press, emergency preparedness, fiction, Geoffrey Simmons, Hiroshima, intelligent design, Jews, Jonathan Witt, Kai Bird, Marcel Proust, Martin Sherwin, medicine, Michael Behe, Michael Crichton, Microsoft, Midwest, Mount Rushmore, Nagasaki, Neil deGrasse Tyson, neurosurgeons, novelists, Oppenheimer’s Demon, physicians, Redmond, Richard Dawkins, Robert Oppenheimer, Rosetta Stone, Seattle, Stephen Meyer, thrillers}

New Thriller Tackles Intelligent Design and Robert Oppenheimer

_{David Klinghoffer
August 24, 2026

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The pivotal ID element comes in because a beautiful African-American neurosurgeon is testing the limits of academic freedom. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
July 29, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, apes, biomechanics, bipedal walking, birth canal, BMXing, childbirth, Christians, Discovery Institute Press, evolution, eyes, feet, human body, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, Judeo-Christian tradition, Lucy Hyde, mountain, optimization, pain, pelvis, pregnancy, quadrupeds, Responding to Lucy Hyde (series), running, skateboarding, skiing, Sports, Stuart Burgess, theology, Ultimate Engineering}

Multi-Objective Optimization: Empty Criticism of Birth Biomechanics

_{Terrell Clemmons
July 29, 2026

Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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An engineer would say that the female pelvis is the perfect compromise, the perfect size. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
February 11, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Social Sciences
Tagged
, biologists, Charles Darwin, Christianity, creativity, creator, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian narrative, Darwinian theory, designer, evolution, human beings, intelligent design, Islam, Jonathan Witt, Judaism, Judeo-Christian tradition, materialism, mind, monkeys, moral order, random mutations, rationality, Religions (journal), theists, universal acid}

Jonathan Witt: Darwinism and Its “Pernicious Cultural Implications”

_{Emily Sandico
February 11, 2026

Ethics, Social Sciences

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What are we to make of rationality and creativity, of our awareness of the moral order? In the Judeo-Christian tradition, these markers are elevated. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 15, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antony Flew, Barbara Forrest, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Cicero, creationism, creator, David dewolf, Edwards v. Aguillard, Eugenie Scott, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Fred Hoyle, intelligent agent, intelligent causes, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John E. Jones, John Haught, John West, Jonathan Witt, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Polanyi, molecular machines, New York Times, Of Pandas and People, Pennsylvania, philosophy, religion, Richard Dawkins, scientific method, Scott Minnich, Supreme Court, Ten Myths About Dover, textbooks, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Thomas Aquinas, William Dembski, William Paley}

Ten Myths About Dover: No. 7, “Showed ID Is ‘Religious’ and a Form of ‘Creationism’”

_{Casey Luskin
December 15, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Is intelligent design actually religious? Is it a form of Christianity? We can immediately see that it is not. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
December 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Zoology
Tagged
, computer scientists, evolution, giraffe’s neck, giraffes, Giraffidae, Jonathan Witt, mathematicians, mathematics, missing links, mosaic, okapi, Science and Culture Today}

A Link Between the Okapi and the Giraffe? It Seems Not

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
December 9, 2025

Evolution, Zoology

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The question of how the giraffe’s extremely long neck originated remains entirely unresolved within an evolutionary framework. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 12, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon, Christianity for Doubters, Christians, Denyse O'Leary, doubt, faith and science, Granville Sewell, grief, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, laws of nature, mathematicians, Robert J. Marks II, Science and Culture, suffering, theology}

A New Second Edition of Mathematician Granville Sewell’s Book Is Out Now

_{David Klinghoffer
September 12, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Sewell wrote perhaps the most moving essay we've ever published here, under the title, "The Biggest Theological Objection to Design." Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 14, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atoms, cancer, chemicals, Darwinism, devolution, eugenics, evil, function, Guillermo Gonzalez, history, human dignity, human life, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, life, materialism, podcast, problem of evil, Return of the God Hypothesis, Social Darwinism, struggle for existence, suffering, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, Tova Forman}

Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evil

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 14, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The presence of evil and suffering calls for justification. But which scientific view of life is better placed to help us address these issues? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 8, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptations, bacteria, biology, Carolyn Hovde, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Dustin Van Hofwegen, E. coli, engineering, evolution, ID the Future, innovation, Jonathan Witt, Journal of Bacteriology, microbes, podcast, Scott Minnich, University of Idaho}

Engineered Complexity in the Microbial World

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 8, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Many biological “adaptations” may involve the use of innate abilities or the disruption of existing functions, rather than the creation of entirely new ones. Read More ›