Tag: natural forces

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Historical Sciences
Tagged
, chance, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Curtis Johnson, Darwin’s Dice, domestication, French Academy of Sciences, Geological Society of Dublin, John Herschel, Joseph Hooker, Linnean Society, natural forces, natural law, On the Genesis of Species, Origin of Species, post hoc ergo propter hoc, predictability, quantum mechanics, Quarterly Review, Queen Victoria, randomness, regularity, Samuel Haughton, St. George Mivart, The Natural History Review, trompe-l’oeil, University of Dublin, Victorian England, Whitwell Elwin, William Whewell}

A Matter of Insinuation: Chance in Darwin’s Theory

_{Neil Thomas
November 10, 2025

Evolution, Historical Sciences

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Think of a rock dislodged by happenstance, tumbling down a mountain, and coming to rest in some particular spot. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 14, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Big Bang, children, earth, electromagnetic force, family, galaxies, helium, humans, hydrogen, life, natural forces, organisms, parents, photons, planets, stars, strong nuclear force, universe, weak nuclear force}

What Can We Infer About the Source of Life?

_{Eric Hedin
August 14, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

6}

If I may, I would submit that a familial relationship exists between the author of life and what has been made. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 20, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, active transport, aquaporins, cell membrane, concentration gradient, death, disease, entropy, ion channels, life, Maxwell’s demon, natural forces, Nobel Prize, non-life, osmosis, PNAS, potassium channels, Roderick MacKinnon, Second Law of Thermodynamics, selectivity filters, sodium channels, unnatural selection}

Secrets of Active Transport Become Visible

_{David Coppedge
March 20, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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TSA workers at airports could never boast of this much quality control in their authentication protocols. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
March 1, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, Biological Information: New Perspectives, civilization, compensation, Darwinists, disorder, entropy, human intelligence, Mathematical Intelligencer, Moon, multiverse, natural forces, open system, order, physical constants, Physics Essays, probability, Second Law of Thermodynamics, specified complexity, sun, tautology, temperature, The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, William A. Dembski}

Life and the Underlying Principle Behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics

_{Granville Sewell
March 1, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics, Technology

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This seem to be extremely improbable: “From a lifeless planet, there arose spaceships capable of flying to its moon and back safely.” Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
November 21, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antarctica, arson, carbon dioxide, Dead Sea Scrolls, design detection, intelligence, intelligent agency, magnetic field, Michael Egnor, minds, natural forces, Paul Nelson, probability, water, William A. Dembski}

Design: A Scientific Proxy for Intelligence

_{Eric Hedin
November 21, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

The Dead Sea Scrolls are an example of a design artifact for which intelligence is inferred as the source. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, determinism, droughts, earthquakes, human bodies, Hurricanes, ID the Future, intelligent design, molecules, moral responsibility, natural disasters, natural forces, naturalism, Robert Sapolsky, Second Law of Thermodynamics, sickness, suffering, theism, tragedies}

Eric Hedin on Suffering in a Designed World

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 24, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

First, Dr. Hedin discusses the problem of natural evils like earthquakes, hurricanes, droughts, and other natural disasters. Read More ›

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Date
May 18, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Brian Miller, creativity, entropy, Eric Anderson, evolution, hype, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Tour, laboratory, living cells, molecular machines, natural forces, Nature Communications, podcast, Robert Shapiro, scientists, Steven Novella, University of Tokyo}

Brian Miller: From Non-Life to Life via Natural Forces Alone? Nope

_{Science and Culture
May 18, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

1}

Steven Novella, a scientist committed to puncturing science hype, seems to have fallen for the hype surrounding this laboratory work. 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

10}

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

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
November 5, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physics
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, __k-review, airplanes, Alexander Tsiaras, cars, computers, Darwinists, encyclopedia, entropy, evolution, gravity, iPhone, Irreducible Complexity, natural forces, oocyte, Physics Essays, Sarah Chaffee, Second Law of Thermodynamics, TED talk, The American Spectator, thermodynamics}

Why Evolution and Reproduction Are Unnatural

_{Granville Sewell
November 5, 2018

Intelligent Design, Physics, Reproductive Science

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Reproduction is the most fundamental characteristic of life. We see it happen everywhere, so we may feel there is nothing “unnatural” about it. Read More ›