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Author
Elie Feder

Date
April 24, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cosmological constant, cosmologists, cosmology, fine-tuning, fluctuations, intelligent cause, laws of nature, Lucretius, Ludwig Boltzmann, Marvel Cinematic Universe, measure problem, multiverse, parallel universes, philosophers, physical constants, physicists, thermal equilibrium}

Is the Multiverse Real?

_{Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
April 24, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Despite its various iterations, few philosophers or scientists had taken the multiverse seriously — until 1998. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
February 25, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, belief, Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, carbon dioxide, Christianity, consciousness, disenchantment, freedom, Hamlet, intelligence, intelligent design, multiverse, New York Times, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roman Catholic, Stephen Meyer, telescope, universe, water}

Pointing to Design, Ross Douthat Makes the Case that Religious Belief Is Rational

_{Peter Biles
February 25, 2025

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Physical Sciences, Technology

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He kicks off the book by talking about the evident design in nature and the fine-tuning of the universe. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 9, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, Boltzmann brain, Brian Miller, Elie Feder, faith and science, ID the Future, intelligent design, Judaism, measure problem, multiverse, Physics to God, podcast, Talmud}

Feder, Zimmer on the Boltzmann Brain Problem and the Measure Problem

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 9, 2025

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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If a grand multiverse contains everything that’s possible, it ends up explaining nothing. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 6, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, Brian Miller, Elie Feder, ID the Future, initial conditions, intelligent cause, intelligent design, mathematician, multiverse, physicists, Physics to God, podcast, science fiction, universe}

Rejecting the Multiverse: Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 6, 2025

Cosmology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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It can be tempting to dismiss the idea of the multiverse as unobservable fantasy. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 16, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, DNA, Doug Monroe, evolution, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, multiverse, podcast, Praxis Circle, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science, Theory of Everything, universe}

Meyer: Can There Be a Theory of Everything?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 16, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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Philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer discusses two of the crucial arguments of his latest book. Read More ›

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Date
December 12, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, bias, Big Bang, Durham University, goal-directedness, Goldilocks, historians, multiverse, particles, Philip Goff, thought, universe}

Why the Multiverse Theory Can’t Explain Away Cosmic Fine-Tuning

_{Science & Culture
December 12, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Many thoughtful people in science today would see the goal of science as explaining away both goal-directedness and thought. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 4, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alice in Wonderland, atheism, behaviorism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, cosmogony, David Berlinski, Freudianism, Marxism, multiverse, On the Origin of Species, quantum fluctuation, Richard Dawkins, theistic Darwinism, Theory of Everything, Tom Wolfe, Universal Darwinism, Victorians}

Existentialist Science: Darwin as Proto-Absurdist

_{Neil Thomas
November 4, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution

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The existentialist story might arguably start with Charles Darwin and his conception of the chance evolution of life. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 18, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Ben Shapiro, Darwin's Doubt, ID the Future, information, intelligent design, James Tour, methodological naturalism, multiverse, Peter Robinson, podcast, Rice University, RNA world, Stephen Meyer, The Daily Wire, Uncommon Knowledge}

Stephen Meyer and Ben Shapiro on the Origin of Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 18, 2024

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Dr. Meyer explains how the OOL field reached an impasse by the 1980s as chemists learned just how thorny the origin of life problem really was. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 22, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atheism, Brian Keating, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmologists, God Hypothesis, Jay Richards, Luke Barnes, materialism, materialists, multiverse, Peter Robinson, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, The Privileged Planet, Uncommon Knowledge, universe}

Jay Richards: The 1890s Were a Much Better Time to Be an Atheist

_{David Klinghoffer
August 22, 2024

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences

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Yes, ideas of a multiverse are taken “extremely seriously.” And those are obviously intended to counter the theistic implications of the familiar cosmology. Read More ›

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Author
Elie Feder

Date
August 21, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", atoms, galaxies, intelligence, intelligent cause, life, molecules, multiverse, mystery, natural constants, physicists, Physics to God, planets, Richard Feynman, scientific knowledge, stars, universe}

Fine-Tuning Is the Solution to the Mystery of the Constants

_{Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
August 21, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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In his discussion of the constants in 1985, physicist Richard Feynman described the great challenge and mystery the constants pose to a final theory, Read More ›