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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 17, 2022

Categories
Biology
Culture
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Christianity, creation, demiurge, Discovery Institute, Early Church, evolution, gnosticism, God and Evolution, Gospel of John, history, intelligent design, Jay Richards, John West, Judaism, Lucretius, materialists, Richard Dawkins, Talmud, theism, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith}

West: Theistic Evolution and the Gnostic Heresy

_{David Klinghoffer
August 17, 2022

Biology, Culture, Faith & Science

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Friendliness to a design perspective might seem to be natural for any theist. Yet a prickly disdain is strangely common, especially among religious academics. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 27, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, ADP, ATP, ATP synthase, coincidences, Energy, gradual development, hydrothermal vents, intelligent design, materialists, miracle, nanomachines, Nick Lane, nonlife}

Origin of Life without Intelligent Design? Long Story Short Tackles the “Energy Harnessing” Problem

_{David Klinghoffer
July 27, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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“Life’s energy harnessing process is one big paradox. You need it before you can have it, and you can’t make it until you’ve already made it." Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 26, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adrenaline, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Blake Lemoine, computer science, DNA, emotions, engineers, feelings, free will, Google, human cells, imagination, Isaac Asimov, LaMDA, Language Model for Dialogue Applications, life, love, machines, materialists, René Descartes, self-awareness, sentience, software, soul, Stanford University, toaster, Washington Post, William Hurlbut}

Five Reasons Why AI Programs Are Not “Human”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 26, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, mistakenly designated one AI program "sentient." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 4, 2022

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, cell membranes, chemical evolution, conflicting requirements, design constraint, evolution, first cell, homeostasis, intelligent design, Long Story Short, materialists, microbiology, protocells, protons}

Origin of Life: The Problem of Cell Membranes

_{David Klinghoffer
April 4, 2022

Biochemistry, Biology, Origin of Life

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Wow, the new Long Story Short video is out now, and I think it’s the best one yet — it’s amazingly clear and quite funny. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 5, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Augustus, beliefs, determinism, free will, John Bell, laws of nature, materialists, nature, physicists, quantum mechanics, Sabine Hossenfelder, Superdeterminism, universe}

Does Superdeterminism Resolve Dilemmas Around Free Will?

_{Michael Egnor
January 5, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences

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The conventional view of nature held by materialists is that all acts are wholly determined by the laws of nature. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 4, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, atoms, Benedict Cumberbatch, Boltzmann brains, Brian Miller, Bruce Gordon, complex and specified information, cosmic fine-tuning, George Ellis, Joe Silk, Leonard Susskind, materialists, movies, multiverse, Nature (journal), New Scientist, Newspeak, Ockham’s razor, Paul Davies, proton, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sabine Hossenfelder, specified complexity, Spider-Man, Stephen Meyer, universe, William A. Dembski}

Spider-Man, the Multiverse, and Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
January 4, 2022

Bioethics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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In the new Spider-Man movie, the multiverse not only makes an appearance but plays a crucial role in the plot. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
January 4, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, American Journal of Physics, atoms, automobiles, BIO-Complexity, Biological Information: New Perspectives, civilization, coins, computers, duplication errors, earth, events, evolution, intelligent design, materialists, natural forces, open system, Physics Essays, Second Law of Thermodynamics, self-replicator, sun, The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, tornado, William A. Dembski}

The Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law

_{Granville Sewell
January 4, 2022

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Extremely improbable events must be macroscopically (simply) describable to be forbidden. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 7, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Arjuna, Christianity, evolution, faith, Hinduism, intelligent design, materialists, Popperian falsification, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science, Stephen Meyer, Theology Unleashed}

Stephen Meyer, Seth Hart: Answering Philosophical Objections to Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
December 7, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Think of it: a Hindu moderating a conversation between two Christian philosophers about science and faith — fascinating. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 8, 2021

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Asa Gray, Charles Darwin, cognitive dissonance, evolution, Fred Hoyle, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), intelligent design, materialists, Neal Gillespie, On the Origin of Species, public opinion, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker}

Darwin’s Many Doubts

_{Neil Thomas
November 8, 2021

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Did the admirably candid Charles Darwin himself really believe all that he wrote about evolution? Read More ›

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Date
November 7, 2021

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, aneurysm, Arjuna, atheism, brain, cerebral cortex, Mark Solms, materialists, medical school, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, Napoleon, neuroanatomy, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, Rosetta Stone, Sigmund Freud, surgery, The Hidden Spring, Theology Unleashed}

Neurosurgeon and Neuropsychologist Agree: The Brain Is Not the Mind

_{Science and Culture
November 7, 2021

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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"I had to understand what people were and what the mind was in order to make sense of neuroscience! And I still find that." Read More ›