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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
February 27, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, Andrew Loke, Bayesian reasoning, Boltzmann brains, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, chemistry, Chris Smeenk, cosmology, fine-tuning, fine-tuning argument, Ian Hacking, Ken Olum, Kenny Boyce, loop quantum cosmology, Luke Barnes, naturalism, nuclear physics, Philip Swenson, philosophers, Porter Williams, quantum mechanics, Roger White, Sean Carroll, stellar structure, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism}

Fine-Tuning and the Infinite Multiverse

_{Bruce Gordon
February 27, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

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An endless multiverse is a context in which every outcome occurs infinitely many times, rendering calculations of probability ill-defined. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
February 18, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, Bayesian reasoning, cosmology, fine-tuning, Hans Halvorson, Humean probabilities, likelihood ratio, Luke Barnes, mathematicians, metaphysics, monotheistic tradition, multiverse, Ned Hall, Nevin Climenhaga, personal beliefs, philosophers, philosophy, plausibility, podcasters, Presbyterians, priors, probability, psychological states, Robin Collins, Sean Carroll, spacetime, subjective inclinations, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series), theism, theology, theoretical physicists, Thomas Bayes}

Framing a Finely Tuned Response to a Chorus of Critical “Carrollers”

_{Bruce Gordon
February 18, 2026

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Using Sean Carroll’s criticisms of the fine-tuning argument as a general guide, I propose to address objections to that argument. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 14, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, beta-lactamase, Cambridge, Casey Luskin, cookies, design intuition, Douglas Axe, dragonflies, England, enzymes, ID the Future, mutation, peer-reviewed research, philosophers, podcasts, protein scientists, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, theophobes, Undeniable (book)}

Axe and Luskin on the Design Intuition and Its Critics

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 14, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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The numbers don’t lie. So why do so many academic biologists and other scholars resist the design implications of Axe’s research? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 28, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological systems, building blocks, designed reality, finite universe, ID the Future, improbability, information, irreducible intelligence, Law of Conservation of Information, materialist process, mathematicians, matter, philosophers, podcast, probability amplifier, selection process, William Dembski}

Irreducible Intelligence: The Ultimate Origin of Biological Information

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 28, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The more an environment is tuned to amplify probability, the more improbable that environment becomes, requiring further explanation. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 21, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Ada Lovelace, artificial inteligence, Conservation of Information, ID the Future, information, intelligence, Law of Conservation of Information, law of formation, Leon Brillouin, machines, mathematicians, nature, order, perpetual motion machines, philosophers, physical systems, reductionist biology, Second Law of Thermodynamics, William Dembski}

Why Intelligence Is Necessary to Explain Nature’s Functional Information

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 21, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The law of conservation of information shows that intelligence is a necessary requirement for the complex functional information found in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 20, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Aubrey, Conservation of Information, Darwinian evolution, designer substitute, environmental pressure, hereditary variability, ID the Future, information, intelligence, inter lego, intervention, knowledge, Law of Conservation of Information, mathematicians, monograph, philosophers, podcast, specified complexity, Texas, unguided mechanism, United States, William Dembski}

Bill Dembski Reveals the Hidden Cost of Information

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 20, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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When the law of conservation of information is applied properly to evolutionary claims, the reality is sobering. Read More ›

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Author
Thomas E. Woodward

Date
January 19, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, appendix, atoms, C.S. Lewis, Creative Evolution, Darwinism, faith and science, George Wald, Henri Bergson, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, Life-Force, Mere Christianity, mind, Mind and Cosmos, monotheism, morality, panpsychism, philosophers, religion, super-intellect, Thomas Nagel, universe, Wald-Nagelanity}

C. S. Lewis on “Creative Evolution,” or the “Life-Force”

_{Thomas E. Woodward
January 19, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science

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"The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you." Read More ›

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Author
Larry Sanger

Date
December 23, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Albert Einstein, argument from ignorance, benevolence, Big Bang, Christianity, complexity, constants, David Hume, designer, faith, intelligent design, logos, matter, natural laws, philosophers, Stephen Meyer, universe, William Lane Craig}

No. 10 Story for 2025: Wikipedia Co-Founder on Arguments for God

_{Larry Sanger
December 23, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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I was impressed by a lecture by philosopher of science Stephen Meyer, who presented versions of the cosmological argument and the fine-tuning argument. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 18, 2025

Categories
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Tagged
, American Scientist, avida, Caucasians, creationists, Dover trial, education, Edwards v. Aguillard, Ethiopian, Eugenie Scott, genetic algorithms, intelligent design, iron ore, Jay Wexler, Kitzmiller v. Dover, law, methodological naturalism, Michigan State University, natural, NOMA, Of Pandas and People, philosophers, Robert Pennock, Scopes trial, Stephen Jay Gould, supernatural, Supreme Court, terminology, Winston Ewert, Young Earth Creationism}

On Scopes and Dover Trials, Philosopher Robert Pennock Twists History and Science

_{Casey Luskin and John Bloom
December 18, 2025

History of Science, Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence)

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There is no reason for Pennock’s rule other than to short-circuit the origins debate and rule intelligent design out-of-court without addressing the evidence. Read More ›

Face in a PCB printed circuit board, transhumanism, singularity, universe simulation hypothesis, AI artificial intelligence

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 19, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, eliminative materialism, ideas, information, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Kurt Gödel, Lawrence Krauss, logical positivism, materialist atheism, Michelle Starr, philosophers, physics, Plato, Platonic forms, Skynet, Terminator, universe, University of British Columbia}

Calm Down, the Universe as a Simulation Is Mathematically Impossible

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 19, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

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The idea that information underlies the universe is compatible with the very intelligent design theory that Lawrence Krauss has opposed in the past. Read More ›