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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 5, 2024

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, apologetics, evidence, intelligent activity, intelligent design, methodological naturalism, Reasons to Believe, scientific evidence, scientific method}

Luskin: Why Intelligent Design Is the Truly Scientific Method

_{David Klinghoffer
June 5, 2024

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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That codicil, a matter of personal or philosophical preference, binds and blinds the scientist in a way that is NOT scientific. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 22, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bioluminescence, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, cnidarians, comedy, corals, credulity, entertainment, enzymes, evolution, intelligent design, just-so stories, light, Live Science, marine biology, materialists, methodological naturalism, Nature (journal), Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Smithsonian Institution}

Let There Be Bioluminescence

_{David Coppedge
May 22, 2024

Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Biological light switched on in the Cambrian — for what reason, evolutionists are not sure. It just happened, like all the other natural miracles. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biogeography, complementarity, Douglas Futuyma, dysteleology, embryology, evolution, Evolution News, faith and science, Francis Collins, Francisco Ayala, George Williams, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, marsupials, methodological naturalism, Niles Eldredge, NOMA, paleontology, Panda's Thumb, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, textbooks, theistic evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, theology}

Does the Panda Argument Hurt the Case for Evolution?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 10, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Gould cannot have it both ways: either theology-laden arguments are legitimate within scientific discourse or not. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 28, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Ecology
Evolution
Geology
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", anesthesia, astrobiology, Biomimetics, blood, blood vessels, circulation, coacervates, conservation, genes, George Washington Carver, heart, hydrothermal vents, intelligent design, James Tour, Joana Xavier, Johannes Kepler, Leslie Orgel, memory, methodological naturalism, Michael Faraday, mRNA vaccines, Murchison meteorite, Nick Lane, paradigm shift, Paul Nelson, proteins, reverse-engineering, RNA world, Robert Boyle, Robert Shapiro, scientific revolution, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, Susan Mazur, Systems Biology, University College London, veins, William Harvey}

From Nature, a Devastating Critique of Origin-of-Life Research

_{David Coppedge
February 28, 2024

Biochemistry, Ecology, Evolution, Geology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Philosophy of Science

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The magazine started by Norman Lockyer in 1869 to promote Darwin’s naturalistic views has had to face judgment day. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
January 5, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheism, biologists, chemists, faith and science, intelligent design, metaphysical naturalism, methodological naturalism, physicists, psychologists, religious beliefs}

In Science, How “Assumed Atheism” Harms Religious Students

_{Robert Shedinger
January 5, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science

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For all practical purposes, there seems to be little daylight today between methodological and metaphysical naturalism, at least in graduate science classes. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 17, 2023

Categories
Biology
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academia, administrators, Andrew McDiarmid, CNN, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), gender, genocide, Harvard University, historians, humanities, ID the Future, intelligent causes, methodological naturalism, methodological pluralism, Michael Keas, MIT, natural causes, Peggy Noonan, podcast, professors, race, scholars, tenure, universities, University of Pennsylvania, Wall Street Journal, woke ideology, worldview}

Recognizing the Scandal in the Universities — Will It Extend to Origins Science?

_{David Klinghoffer
December 17, 2023

Biology, Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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The regime of methodological naturalism is affirmative action for scientific ideas. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 7, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Christianity, ID the Future, intelligent design, methodological naturalism, methodological pluralism, Michael Keas, podcast, scientific inquiry, William Whewell}

William Whewell: Statesman of Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 7, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Are there natural limits to biological change? Is the evidence for design in nature well founded? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 6, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Christianity, history, humanity, ID the Future, intelligent agents, knowledge, Medieval Europe, methodological naturalism, methodological pluralism, Michael Keas, natural causes, nature, podcast, scientism, scientists, universe}

When Natural and Super-Natural Explanations Work Hand in Hand

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 6, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Methodological naturalism is the idea that scientists may only invoke unintelligent causes for nature’s history. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 6, 2023

Categories
Biochemistry
Chemistry
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Assembly Theory, chemical evolution, Clockwork, complexity, consciousness, Elon Musk, fallacy, Harvard University, information theory, intelligent design, James Tour, Justin Brierley, Lee Cronin, materialism, methodological naturalism, molecular biology, naturalism, Nature (journal), ontology, Oxford University, phase transition, quantum entanglement, Reductionism, Rice University, saltation, scientific method, theoretical physics, Unbelievable, worldview}

A Few Thoughts on the Cronin-Tour Debate

_{Günter Bechly
December 6, 2023

Biochemistry, Chemistry, Origin of Life

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Under the theory of an unguided process of chemical and biological evolution, should a threshold of complexity, clearly identifying life, be expected? Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 20, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", abiogenesis, argument from ignorance, artificial intelligence, biases, ChatGPT, chemical evolution, comets, complexity, cosmic fine-tuning, early Earth, higher intelligence, inference to the best explanation, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, meteorites, methodological naturalism, multiverse, natural selection, Occam's Razor, panpsychism, panspermia, physical constants, physical laws, primordial soup, self-organization, testability, thermodynamics}

Chatting with ChatGPT about Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life

_{William A. Dembski
September 20, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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This study raises the interesting question of the interplay between trained biases in ChatGPT and the ability to coax this AI to transcend those biases. Read More ›