Tag: lightning

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 19, 2025

Categories
Environment & Climate
Geology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, ant navigation, archaeology, barnacle waterproof glue, Biomimetics, blowholes, butterfly colors, California, cryptology, crystallography, Death Valley, design filter, fine-tuning, forensic science, geomimetics, geophysics, geysers, ice, ice sheets, ID in Action, intelligent design, Jonathan Boreyko, lightning, magnets, mantis shrimp hammers, Oklo reactor, optimization, Racetrack Playa, Racetrack Valley, rocks, sailing stones, Smithsonian Magazine, snowflakes, spider webs, Virginia Tech, volcanoes}

Is Geomimetics an Intelligent Design Science? Well, Yes and No

_{David Coppedge
August 19, 2025

Environment & Climate, Geology, Intelligent Design

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Biomimetics, the imitation of nature’s designs, clearly qualifies as an ID science. What about “geomimetics” — the imitation of geophysics? Read More ›

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Author
Martin Hilbert

Date
December 9, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Alfred North Whitehead, Apostle Paul, Christians, Darwinian paradigm, Darwinism, earthquakes, Europe, evolution, faith and science, Greek philosophers, human soul, intelligent agents, intelligent design, john lennox, lightning, New Testament, Nobel laureates, Robert Laughlin, Roman Catholic, Zeus}

Natural Selection: The God that Failed

_{Fr. Martin Hilbert, C.O.
December 9, 2024

Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design

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The god-of-the-gaps objection does have some merit to it, but it does not rule out ID. The progress of science has dethroned a multitude of false gods. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Stadler

Date
July 27, 2022

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, ADP, ATP, ATP synthase, batteries, biopolymers, chemiosmotic coupling, Energy, energy harnessing, evolution, gasoline, homeostasis, hydrothermal vents, intelligent design, lightning, Long Story Short, membranes, natural selection, promissory note, proton gradients, protons, regulators, RNA, self-replication, solar panels, sun, sunlight, transformers, volcanoes}

High Energy: Long Story Short Addresses “Energy Harnessing” and Life’s Origin

_{Rob Stadler
July 27, 2022

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Everyone knows that maintaining life requires energy, but most do not appreciate the intricate steps required to harness it. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, American Geophysical Union, biochemists, Charles Thaxton, computer model, electrons, evolution, flasks, Geophysical Research Letters, Harold Urey, Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells, lightning, Miller-Urey experiment, Signature in the Cell, Stanley Miller, Stephen Meyer, Zombie Science (book)}

Zombie Science: Miller-Urey Experiment Is Back from the Dead, Barely

_{David Coppedge
March 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

6}

Scientifically speaking, the Miller experiment was a non-starter. Then when the atmosphere they used was called into question, the icon was doubly dead. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 4, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, author, Bible, biological information, books, carvings, clay, Darwinists, Eric Holloway, evolution, information, intelligent design, letters, lightning, Mind Matters, nature, punctuation, toothpicks}

Is Information a Naturally Occurring Phenomenon?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 4, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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"Consider the toothpicks. If we drop them on the ground and let them scatter randomly, they will have no shape and will thus be uninformative." Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 24, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, ceramics, charcoal, civilization, computers, earth, fire, Fire-Maker, humans, kilns, lightning, metallurgy, volcanoes}

The Path to Technology Was Built into Nature

_{Michael Denton
July 24, 2020

Intelligent Design

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All these elements of fitness in nature for the development of technology, crucial to mankind’s rise to civilization, long preceded man’s arrival on Earth. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
July 23, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, accident, antibodies, Billions of Missing Links, cells, Charles Darwin, chromosomes, clotting factors, coincidence, Doctor's Diary (series), enzymes, evolution, Geoffrey Simmons, hormones, human body, intelligent design, lightning, Mars, Modernizing Darwin (series), nerve conduction, slaves, spontaneous generation, What Darwin Didn’t Know}

Doctor’s Diary: Is Darwin Still Relevant?

_{Geoffrey Simmons
July 23, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

There was a lot of mysticism and far too many guesses in 19th century. The time has come to modernize his views. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 4, 2016

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __tedited, atmospheric gases, combustion, comparative anatomy, environmental conditions, environmental fitness, fire, fire use, Fire-Maker, fire-making, fitness of nature, human development, human exceptionalism, human intelligence, lightning, planetary design, preconditions, prior fitness, scientific discovery, society, technological advancement}

A Reasonable, but Incomplete, Account of How Humans Mastered Fire

_{Michael Denton
August 4, 2016

Human Origins and Anthropology

13}

The coincidences are so extraordinary that the inference to design is surely worthy of serious consideration. Read More ›