Tag: metaphor

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 20, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, adolescence, adulthood, Charles Krauthammer, Charles Murray, chess club, consciousness, evidence, faith and science, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy, law of free fall, mathematics, maturing, metaphor, New York Post, nothing, parents, Proof of God in 3 Minutes, second law of motion, something, soul, Stephen Meyer, The Free Press, theology, universe}

Maturing Toward God: Update from Charles Murray

_{David Klinghoffer
October 20, 2025

Faith & Science, Physics

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Why there is something rather than nothing is the question posed in our video, "Proof of God in 3 Minutes," about the law of conservation of matter and energy. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 29, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brain damage, chess, computer, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, knowledge, Ludwig Wittgenstein, M. R. Bennett, memories, memory, metaphor, mind, neuroscience, P. M. S. Hacker, philosophers, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, storage}

Memories Are Not “Stored” in the Brain; Here’s Why

_{Michael Egnor
February 29, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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It doesn’t make any sense to talk about the “storage” of non-physical entities. Philosophers like to call that a "category error." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 17, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Energy, fear, heart, human life, humans, intelligent design, invention, light, medicine, metaphor, Michael Denton, oxygen, predators, prior fitness, red blood cells, The Miracle of Man, transition metals, water}

Michael Denton Explains the Miracle of Your Heart

_{David Klinghoffer
August 17, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

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There is more that most people – probably most scientists – have never even considered, and that seals the case for the heart’s intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 14, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, agriculturalists, Basil Willey, breeders, Charles Darwin, Emma Darwin, faith, Gaia, George Levine, goddess, Janet Browne, literature, metaphor, Mother Nature, natural preservation, nature, On the Origin of Species, paganism, Robert J. Richards, Stephen Jay Gould}

Darwin’s Goddess: Natural Selection as “Divine Surrogate”

_{Neil Thomas
July 14, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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When parsed carefully, the metaphorical structure of Darwin’s argumentation emerges as little less than a periphrastic description of the goddess Natura. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 11, 2019

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Darwin Devolves, Darwinists, debate, Devil, foresight, genes, insults, intelligent design, metaphor, Michael Behe, Nathan Lents, polar bear, Richard Lenski, Seattle}

Marcos Eberlin on Debating Evolutionists

_{David Klinghoffer
June 11, 2019

Chemistry, Intelligent Design

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As Eberlin observes, for Darwinists, the “devil is in the details” and they fear the devil. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 5, 2019

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, biological adaptation, disorder, entropy, evolution, Fifth Way, form, ignorance, information, knowledge, medicine, metaphor, mind, neuroscience, quantum physics, Scrabble, teleology, Thomas Aquinas, Universal Darwinism}

On Universal Darwinism

_{Michael Egnor
April 5, 2019

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Physics

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Universal Darwinism is the belief that Darwin’s theory can be applied fruitfully to many scientific disciplines, not just to biology. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 11, 2018

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, BioLogos, Darrel Falk, Dave Rubin, Disney, father, Geppetto, intelligent design, Jordan Peterson, metaphor, Middle East, Pinocchio, theistic evolution, whale}

Pinocchio and Geppetto: A Puppet Postscript

_{David Klinghoffer
May 11, 2018

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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This, from a critic seeking to dissuade viewers from the intelligent design position, is the carefully selected metaphor for casting ID as emotionally cold and remote? Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
November 29, 2017

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, abiogenesis, Ann Gauger, astrobiology, bootstrap, Caleb Scharf, chicken-and-egg problem, Columbia University, computer code, DNA, evolution, intelligent design, matter, metaphor, molecular machines, NASA, npr, universe}

“The Ultimate Bootstrap”

_{Sarah Chaffee
November 29, 2017

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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Caleb Scharf explores the degrees of magnitude separating the immensity of the universe from the smallest particle of matter. Read More ›