Tag: Newtonian mechanics

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Against the Professors, Albert Einstein, ancient Greece, aphasia, arithmeticians, Arthur Eddington, Arthur Koestler, astrologers, ataraxia, Carlo Rovelli, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Chrysippus, Das Wesen des Christentums, David Hume, epistemology, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Friedrich Nietzsche, geometers, grammarians, J. B. Bury, J. B. S. Haldane, James Moore, Jerry Coyne, John Dewey, Ludwig Feuerbach, Marcus du Sautoy, Max Planck, musicians, natural preservation, natural selection, Neal Gillespie, New Atheists, Newtonian mechanics, Niels Bohr, Origin of Species, philosophy, Pierre Bayle, Pons Malleus, Pyrrho, revisions, rhetors, Sanford G. Etheridge, Sextus Empiricus, Sir Charles Lyell, Steve Taylor, The Descent of Man, Werner Heisenberg, Why Evolution Is True, William James, William Shakespeare}

Darwin’s Doubts, and Their Philosophical Implications

_{Neil Thomas
March 16, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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Charles Darwin thus appears to us more modern than his present-day disciples, whose unbending materialism comes closer to that of Erasmus Darwin. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
November 24, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, atoms, beauty, biochemistry, cells, chlorophyll, electromagnetic force, electromagnetic radiation, electrons, fundamental forces (series), gravity, intelligent design, light, matter, Michael Faraday, Newtonian mechanics, physics, Schrödinger equation, steel, strong nuclear force, symmetry, universe, water}

A Thing of Beauty — The Electromagnetic Force

_{Eric Hedin
November 24, 2025

Intelligent Design, Physics

5}

As a physicist and someone with a vested interest in being alive, I stand positively in awe of the deeply designed nature of the electromagnetic force. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
July 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biosphere, copper, insulin, intentionality, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, life, Newtonian mechanics, oxygen, purpose, science of purpose, thermodynamics}

Illuminating the Power of Life

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
July 1, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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That which is unique to life alone, which offers the only valid explanation of irreducible complexity, is the manifestation of goal-directed functional logic. Read More ›

Golden Sunset Reflecting On A Breaking Ocean Wave

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 3, 2018

Categories
Epistemology
History of Science
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, Alvin Plantinga, Aristotelianism, Big Bang, causation, Ed Feser, Enlightenment, Francis Bacon, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Isaac Newton, knowledge, Maimonides, materialism, nature, New Atheists, Newtonian mechanics, philosophers, power, René Descartes, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, scientific revolution, scientists, Steven Pinker, Thomas Aquinas}

Knowledge, Power, and the Scientific Enlightenment

_{Michael Egnor
October 3, 2018

Epistemology, History of Science, Metaphysics

8}

A focus on power, to the neglect of wisdom, is fine, as long as it is recognized that mechanical philosophy is incomplete. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 1, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Albert Einstein, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, Ethan Siegel, evolution, Forbes, general relativity, inheritance, intelligent design, Michael Flannery, Newtonian mechanics, predictions, Royal Society, Sarah Chaffee, selection, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, Third Way of Evolution}

For This Physicist, “Overthrowing” Darwinism Is on the Table

_{David Klinghoffer
August 1, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

ID is a rival theory, a scientific theory, doing the normal work that scientific ideas must do to supplant a currently dominant idea. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
May 16, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, “consensus science”, Archaeopteryx, Charles Darwin, Cornelius Hunter, Darwinian theory, empirical science, Ernst Haeckel, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Gerd Müller, macroevolution, materialism, methodological naturalism, microevolution, Miller-Urey experiment, natural selection, Newtonian mechanics, On the Origin of Species, peppered moths, Royal Society, Stephen Jay Gould, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Zombie Science (book)}

Zombie Science: Darwin’s Theory Feeds on Raw Materialism

_{Jonathan Wells
May 16, 2018

Evolution

9}

Most of us think of science as the enterprise of seeking truth by formulating hypotheses and testing them against the evidence. This is empirical science. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 1, 2018

Categories
Engineering
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, calculus, Christianity, design, gravitation, Isaac Newton, Newtonian mechanics, prophecy, science, scientism}

Newton Understood that Nature Manifests Design of the Highest Order

_{Michael Egnor
January 1, 2018

Engineering, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Some atheists have implicitly claimed Newton as their own. They woefully misunderstand Newton and the Scientific Enlightenment. Read More ›