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Author
Melissa Cain Travis

Date
January 18, 2024

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, cosmos, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, intellectual history, intelligent design, intelligibility, Johannes Kepler, natural theology, nature, transparency}

In Dallas, Learn About Uncanny Synchronicity Behind the Comprehensibility of the Cosmos

_{Melissa Cain Travis
January 18, 2024

Astronomy, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The idea that the rational transparency of our cosmos has design implications came to fruition with the natural theology and astronomy of Johannes Kepler. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alexander Fleming, Alfred Russel Wallace, Archimedes, Arthur Koestler, Charles Darwin, creationism, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Edinburgh University, evolution, history, intelligent evolution, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, penicillin, R.H. Barfield, Sherrie Lyons, socialism, South America, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Kuhn, Victorians, William Paley}

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Greatest Journey

_{Michael Flannery
November 22, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Alfred Russel Wallace took a journey Darwin could not follow. He went from natural selection to natural theology. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abrahamic religions, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, brain, Charles Darwin, Corinthians, Darwinism (book), Edinburgh, Ernst Haeckel, frenemies, Genesis, George Romanes, Harvard University, historiography, human consciousness, Jacques Barzun, John Lukacs, Man’s Place in the Universe, materialism, natural theology, Nature's Prophet, Notebook C, Phillip E. Johnson, Plinian Society, Psalms, Romans, Scripture, Social Environment and Moral Progress, teleology, The American Scholar, The Wedge of Truth, The World of Life}

Wallace’s Frenemies: A Lesson from Phillip Johnson

_{Michael Flannery
October 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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We can add Andrew Berry to the list of those quick to praise Alfred Wallace on certain matters but equally quick to condemn him on others. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 13, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Andrew McDiarmid, archetype, artificial intelligence, Center for Science and Culture, Colorado Christian University, copy, cosmic comprehensibility, Discovery Institute, image, Johannes Kepler, materialists, Melissa Cain Travis, multiverse, natural theology, Paul Davies, rationality, Roger Penrose, Thinking God’s Thoughts, transhumanism}

Uncovering the Hidden Mathematical Structure of the Universe

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 13, 2023

Astronomy, Mathematics, Physical Sciences

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Genuine human rationality would not exist if a naturalistic account of the human mind were correct. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 7, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Philosophy of Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, archetype, Center for Science and Culture, Colorado Christian University, copy, Discovery Institute, human mind, ID the Future, image, intelligent design, Johannes Kepler, Melissa Cain Travis, Middle Ages, natural theology, podcast, science history, Thinking God’s Thoughts}

Thinking God’s Thoughts: Kepler and Cosmic Comprehensibility

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 7, 2023

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Philosophy of Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Melissa Cain Travis traces the intellectual pedigree of Johannes Kepler’s ideas all the way back to the ancients. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 28, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, chemicals, Energy, entropy, evolutionary theory, God's Grandeur, ID the Future, intelligent design, materialism, materialists, multiverse, natural processes, natural theology, order, Pat Flynn, philosophers, Philosophy for the People, podcast}

The Return of Natural Theology

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 28, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Scientific Reasoning

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Influenced by a long line of materialist thinkers, Charles Darwin proposed the mechanism of natural selection as a substitute for God. Read More ›

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Author
Melissa Cain Travis

Date
February 8, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astronomers, Christianity, cosmos, creator, crocodiles, earth, elephants, faith, Galileo Galilei, heliocentrism, Herwart von Hohenburg, history, intelligent design, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Mysterium Cosmographicum, natural theology, Nicolaus Copernicus, prayer, Saturn, sun}

Johannes Kepler on the Holy Work of Astronomy

_{Melissa Cain Travis
February 8, 2023

Astronomy, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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Kepler rejected the idea that the enormous scale of the cosmos suggested that mankind is less important than in the cozier Aristotelian-Ptolemaic model. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 3, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, England, epiphany, France, French Revolution, Lake District, Mircea Eliade, natural theology, Natural Theology (book), nature, soul, spirituality, William Paley, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Darwin, Wordsworth, and Natural Theology

_{Neil Thomas
November 3, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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I give here a short sample of just one of the passages in “Tintern Abbey” where Wordsworth reports undergoing what might be described as a moment of epiphany. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 2, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwinian theory, Great Britain, HMS Beagle, natural theology, Natural Theology (book), nature, spirituality, William Paley, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Natural Revelation and Natural Selection: Wordsworth versus Darwin

_{Neil Thomas
November 2, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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It has long been recognized that the many hymns to Nature in the poetic works of William Wordsworth (1770-1850) convey an implicit belief in natural theology. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Europe, faith, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Levine, goddess, Lucretius, Mother Earth, Mother Nature, natural selection, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, Ovid, paganism, Plato, Robert J. Richards, Samuel Wilberforce, Victorian England, William Paley}

Nature Divinized: Darwin’s Goddess for All Seasons

_{Neil Thomas
July 15, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Some modern archaeologists have even gone so far as to claim that the archetype of the Great Mother has been a mythic universal. Read More ›