Tag: Michael Ruse

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
July 23, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Baylor University, Brian Miller, Charles Thaxton, Christianity Today, coconuts, Dallas, David Klinghoffer, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, James Tour, Jon Buell, Jonathan Wells, Michael Ruse, origin of life, Phillip E. Johnson, professors, Richard Dawkins, Robert J. Marks II, Robert Shapiro, Roger Olsen, Southern Methodist University, Stephen Meyer, Texas, Texas A&M, The Blind Watchmaker, They Mystery of Life's Origin, University of Washington, Walter Bradley, Washington University}

Remembering Walter Bradley (1943–2025)

_{William A. Dembski
July 23, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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I’m going to describe some of my personal encounters with Walter that are not in his biography. These I hope will bring to light the man in a fresh way. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
January 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Denis Noble, Discovery Institute, George Church, information, intelligent design, intelligent designer, Michael Ruse, money, Moon, Perry Marshall, phlogiston, phrenology, Richard Dawkins, rockets, Silicon Valley, Stephen Meyer, William A. Dembski}

Origin of Life Challenge: $10 Million, Just Lying Around

_{Daniel Witt
January 27, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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This is an obvious way to judge such theories. If someone claims to know how to make something, the natural response is, “Let’s see it, then.” Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
December 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Asa Gray, cats, Charles Lyell, Darwin Mythology, deism, designer, history, mice, Michael Ruse, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, variations}

Is It a Myth That Darwin Rejected Design?

_{Richard Weikart
December 12, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Deism is the idea that God created the cosmos and its natural laws, but thereafter did not intervene with miraculous events. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
December 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, August Weismann, Cambridge University Press, Darwin Mythology, group selection, John Hedley Brooke, Michael Ruse, mythology, On the Origin of Species, Samuel Wilberforce, The Descent of Man, Thomas Henry Huxley}

A New Scholarly Book Trying to Debunk Myths about Charles Darwin and His Theory

_{Richard Weikart
December 11, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Some debunkers need to be debunked themselves, because instead of correcting falsehoods, they end up creating or perpetuating falsehoods. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 6, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arkansas, Cambridge University Press, Christianity, Dallas, Darwinism, Debating Design, evolution, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, intelligent design, Jon Buell, Michael Ruse, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Subboor Ahmad, The God Delusion}

Remembering Michael Ruse

_{William A. Dembski
November 6, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

21}

Paradoxically, he was ardent in his Darwinism, mild in his atheism, and fair-minded to intelligent design. Read More ›

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Date
October 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alister McGrath, Christianity, faith and science, Judaism, Michael Ruse, New Atheism, Sam Harris, Sy Garte}

Richard Dawkins, the Unlikely Evangelist

_{Science & Culture
October 23, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

5}

As a recent book of essays demonstrates, the once much-vaunted new atheism spurred many thinking people to become Christians. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 28, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Carl Sagan, Communism, Contact (novel), Darwinism, En Arche Foundation, evolution, Grzegorz Malec, intelligence, intelligent design, Michael Behe, Michael Ruse, Nazism, Nicolaus Copernicus, Poland, Polish, pride, progressivism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Sternberg, SETI, Stephen Jay Gould, Western civilization}

Poland’s Intelligent Design Revolution

_{William A. Dembski
May 28, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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While Isaac Newton is universally regarded as the greatest physicist of all time, it is to the Pole Copernicus that we credit the rise of modern science. Read More ›

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Author
Subboor Ahmad

Date
January 30, 2024

Categories
Biology
Ecology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Social Sciences
Tagged
, 9/11 attack, agnostics, Angus Menuge, Christians, Darwinism, Debating Design, Elliott Sober, epigenetics, evolution, genomics, intelligent design, John Polkinghorne, Kenneth Miller, Michael Ruse, Muslims, neo-Darwinian mechanisms, New Atheism, Paul Davies, podcast, problems, puzzles, Richard Swinburne, Robert Pennock, self-organization, Stuart Kauffman, theistic evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Walter Bradley, William A. Dembski}

Dembski and Ruse Look Back on 20 Years of Debate — And a Special Anniversary

_{Subboor Ahmad
January 30, 2024

Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Social Sciences

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The protest about the “spectre of intelligent design” was telling. When critics start talking that way, you can’t help wondering if ID is onto something. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 22, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Faith & Science
History of Science
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, atheism, Bernard Acworth, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Christianity, evolution, faith and science, fantasy, four-bar linkage, Francis Collins, hubris, Jesus Christ, junk DNA, knuckle-walkers, Lehigh University, London, Michael Behe, Michael Ruse, Richard Dawkins, scientific revolution, Stuart Burgess, theistic evolutionists, William Shakespeare}

In the Scientific Enterprise, the Wildness of Aslan Counsels Humility

_{Jonathan Witt
January 22, 2024

Engineering, Faith & Science, History of Science, Scientific Trustworthiness

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Science has made many of its grandest leaps in the face of a mainstream of scientists stubbornly defending a dominant but misguided paradigm. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Auschwitz, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Darwinism, eugenics, Francis Galton, Fred Hoyle, Hitler’s Ethic, intelligent evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, Joseph Hooker, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, Nazis, Richard Owen, Social Darwinism, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, William James}

Correcting a Cartoon Version of Alfred Russel Wallace

_{Michael Flannery
October 2, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Was Darwin a Nazi? Of course not. But did his ideas form a causal nexus via Galton to ideas that would be integrated into Nazi policy? Yes. Read More ›