Tag: materialists

Old abandoned white wooden chapel on prairie at sunset with clou

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Author
John G. West

Date
September 4, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academic fabrication, ACLU, atheists, Brian Josephson, C. W. Howell, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Christian magazines, Christianity Today, Christians, Darwinian theory, Denis Noble, Designer Science, Discovery Institute, Dover School District, Edward Larson, evolution, intelligent design, materialists, Michael Behe, misinformation, New York University Press, Oxford University, Pulitzer Prize, Ronald Numbers, Scopes trial, secular voices, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, Summer for the Gods, William Jennings Bryan}

How a Christian Magazine and a Christian Scholar Boosted a Book with a Fabricated Quote

_{John G. West
September 4, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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As you might have noticed, the critics of intelligent design I’m discussing here aren’t atheists or materialists. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, Augustan age, Before Philosophy, Charles Darwin, Christianity, creation stories, D’Alembert’s Dream, Denis Diderot, Erasmus Darwin, France, Genesis, Great Britain, Henri Frankfort, Higher Criticism, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, lion, Marcion of Sinope, Mary Midgley, materialists, metaphors, mythographers, natural philosophers, natural selection, oak tree, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, parchment, petroglyphs, religion, Sir Charles Lyell, The Origin of Society, The Temple of Nature, transmutation, Victorian England, whale}

Genesis Rescripted: Erasmus and Charles Darwin’s Biblical Indebtedness

_{Neil Thomas
July 6, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science

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One may argue that myth still informs the metaphors underlying the formulation of some present-day scientific theories. Read More ›

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Date
July 2, 2026

Categories
Biology
Origin of Life
Tagged
, bacteria, cells, clueless, control, E. coli, genes, guidance, James Tour, Kate Adamala, materialists, minimal cell, New York Times, origin of life, plagiarism, proteins, ribosomes, RNA, SpudCell, University of Minnesota}

We Created Life! Er, Wait a Minute…

_{Science & Culture
July 2, 2026

Biology, Origin of Life

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A synthetic cell lineage contrived by humans will (necessarily) need to copy what Nature has already done, or fail. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
June 30, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", agency, Aristotle, biologists, Charles Darwin, chemistry, complexity, emergence, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, flowers, function, G. H. Lewes, ime's Second Arrow, improbability, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, language, Life Itself, machines, materialists, mechanism, metaphysics, Michael Behe, Michael Polanyi, Michael Wong, natural selection, naturalism, organisms, physics, probability, purpose, RNA, Robert Hazen, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, Second Law of Thermodynamics, specified irreducible complexity, telos, Thomas Jefferson, Time's Second Arrow}

Misinterpreting Teleology: Another Attempt to Salvage Materialism

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 30, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It’s a “self-evident truth,” as Thomas Jefferson, an early ID proponent himself, might have put it: organisms necessarily exist by virtue of purpose. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 22, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Dean Rickles, dual aspect monism, fine-tuning, Graham Phillips, illusion, John Archibald Wheeler, Leonard Susskind, many universes, materialism, materialists, multiverse, Paul Davies, Princeton University, quantum mechanics, Sydney University, Templeton Ideas, theoretical physicists, universe}

Quantum Mechanics Has Destroyed Classical Materialism

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 22, 2026

Cosmology, Physics, Scientific Reasoning

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Whatever this fundamental level of reality that combines mind and matter is, it is — by definition — deeper than human thought can reach. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 16, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physics
Tagged
, apology, Applied Mathematics Letters, compensation argument, errors, humans, humor, intelligent design, Kirk Sewell, laymen, life, materialists, mathematics, natural causes, peer-reviewed literature, Physics Essays, Rick Romager, sarcasm, Science and Culture Today, scientific rigor, Second Law of Thermodynamics, YouTube videos}

A Note on the “Compensation” Argument

_{Granville Sewell
June 16, 2026

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physics

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This debate is not really too complicated for the layman to understand, though it seems to be too simple for many scientists. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 11, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Political Science
Tagged
, belief, China, creator, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Declaration of Independence, endowed by our creator, equality, Founders, Founding, ink, John West, Mao Zedong, materialists, National Archives, nations, natural science, nature, rights, sentiment, Soviet Union, sunlight, tombs, United States, V.I. Lenin}

John West: The Science of the American Founding Has Been Vindicated

_{David Klinghoffer
May 11, 2026

Intelligent Design, Political Science

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On display at the National Archives, the Declaration’s ink has faded from past exposure to sunlight. But its truths haven’t faded. 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

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

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 12, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Caltech, carbon-silicon bonds, cells, cytochrome c, directed evolution, enzyme, Frances Arnold, Hendrik F. T. Klare, homochirality, Iceland, intelligent design, Martin Oestreich, materialists, microbes, molecules, natural, New Scientist, pharmaceuticals, polymers, rational thought, Science (journal), semiconductors, silicon, unnatural}

Clarity, Please: If Scientists Repurpose an Enzyme, Is It Intelligent Design?

_{David Coppedge
February 12, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Four Caltech scientists taught “nature” to do the “unnatural” by first isolating a microbe that lives in the hot springs of Iceland. Read More ›

A group of monkeys on a raft in a river, carrying bunches of bananas.

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 13, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Africa, Atlantic Ocean, biogeography, biological information, biology, Brandon McGuire, cosmic fine-tuning, Daily Dose of Wisdom, Denyse O’Leary, evolution, fossils, information, materialist paradigm, materialists, mind, monkeys, multiverse, near-death experiences, New World, origin of life, origin of the universe, punctuated equilibrium, quantum fluctuation, South America, species, universe}

In Evolution, Explaining vs. Explaining Away: Rafting Monkeys and More

_{David Klinghoffer
November 13, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Says Casey Luskin, "If you're an evolutionist, you have a serious problem. Where do South American monkeys come from?" Read More ›