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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 21, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, atheism, behaviors, brain, C. elegans, chaos, directed evolution, Eric Cassell, human brain, intelligence, Irreducible Complexity, Journal of Neurochemistry, natural selection, order, origin of life, random mutation, Richard Dawkins, simplicity, specified complexity}

Origin of Life: A “Simple” Worm’s Challenge

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 21, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Were there ever life forms that were so simple that they could merely self-assemble, as our official doctrine of the origin of life proposes? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 13, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animals, arXiv, astrobiology, biosphere, earth, elephants, floods, habitability, ice, intelligent design, livestock, Mars, materialists, Michael Denton, Michael Marshall, natural selection, New Scientist, PNAS, sauropods, vitalism, W. Ford Doolittle, water}

Life as a Habitability Requirement

_{David Coppedge
March 13, 2025

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Astrobiologists often speak of a planet’s requirements for life, but can we turn that around? Is life a requirement for a planet’s habitability? Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
February 27, 2025

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Albuquerque, Cambrian Explosion, Center for Science and Culture, DNA, Energy, enzymes, evolution, fossil record, genes, information, initial conditions, intelligent design, junk DNA, life, matter, mutations, natural selection, non-coding DNA, overlapping codes, physical constants, proteins, space-time, spliceosome, universe, University of New Mexico, video}

Michael Kent: “12 Discoveries That Have Changed the Debate about Design”

_{Granville Sewell
February 27, 2025

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Michael Kent is a Fellow with the Center for Science and Culture and a recently retired bio-scientist from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 20, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwin on Trial, Darwinism, Denis Diderot, England, Ernst Mayr, Establishment Clause, First Amendment, Harrisburg, Judge John E. Jones, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, Karl Popper, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, L’Homme Machine, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, natural selection, Norman Macbeth, Of Pandas and People, Pennsylvania, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, United States}

Teaching Darwin: A Hypothetical Program

_{Neil Thomas
February 20, 2025

Evolution, Science Education

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Charles Darwin himself contemplated being mistaken, writing “I have asked myself whether I may not have devoted my life to a fantasy.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 12, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological information, Bret Weinstein, Casey Luskin, Darwin Day, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionary mechanism, ID the Future, intelligent design, Joana Xavier, mutations, natural selection, podcast, scientists, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Joe Rogan Experience, University College London}

Celebrate Darwin Day, and Darwin’s Broken Theory!

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 12, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein summed up this way: “[In my opinion,] the mainstream Darwinists are telling a kind of lie about how much we know." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bret Weinstein, Darwinism, designer, epigenetic information, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionists, Günter Bechly, immaterial genome, intelligent design, Joe Rogan, morphological change, natural selection, parsimony, Platonists, random mutation, Richard Sternberg, Stephen Meyer, tiger, USAID}

Bret Weinstein on the Joe Rogan Podcast: Darwinism Is “Broken,” Intelligent Design Is “Catching Up”

_{David Klinghoffer
February 10, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Weinstein alludes to another Darwinian mechanism operating on top of the standard one of random mutation and natural selection. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 3, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Mathematics
Tagged
, calculations, chatbot, chimpanzees, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, earth, Gemini, genetic diversity, Google, human origins, humans, logic, myths, natural selection, numbers}

Human Evolution by the Numbers: Chatbot Weighs In

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 3, 2025

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology, Mathematics

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The Darwinian story of human evolution from an ape-like creature is probably the most powerful modern secular myth. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
January 16, 2025

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Technology
Tagged
, Bruce Gordon, Center for Science and Culture, Douglas Axe, natural selection, natural theology, San Diego, specified complexity, The Design Inference, universe, William A. Dembski}

Design Writ Large: CSC Fellows on “Science, Mathematics, and Technology”

_{Stephen Dilley
January 16, 2025

Biology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Technology

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Bill Dembski led by explaining rigorous means to detect design, including a refined understanding of specified complexity. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
January 13, 2025

Categories
Origin of Life
Planetology
Rare Earth
Tagged
, algae, aliens, astrobiologists, bacteria, C.S. Lewis, chance, Christianity, European Space Agency, extraterrestrial life, Guillermo Gonzalez, Holy Grail, intelligent design, Jay Richards, materialists, methodological materialism, Milky Way, NASA, natural laws, natural selection, space exploration, The Privileged Planet}

God and the Odds of ET

_{Jonathan Witt
January 13, 2025

Origin of Life, Planetology, Rare Earth

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There is a rational and intellectually defensible strategy for maintaining a measure of optimism about the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alister McGrath, Annabel Lustig, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Darwinism, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Douglas Axe, evolution, Flower Power, Great Britain, Honest to God, John Robinson, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Michael Behe, mount improbable, natural selection, Richard Dawkins, Rudolf Bultmann, The Selfish Gene}

How Darwinism Dodges the Iceberg

_{Neil Thomas
January 10, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

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When I viewed the stranded vessel in 1992 it looked remarkably well preserved, but of course functionally it was a mere “zombie” craft. Read More ›