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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 28, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, biology, Birkbeck College, C. W. Howell, causation, Christian teaching, Christians, David Bentley Hart, demiurge, Designer Science, Edward Feser, formal cause, formal principle, gnosticism, God's Grandeur, history, intelligent design, intrinsic purpose, logos, materialism, metaphysics, natural processes, natural selection, philosophy, physics, Plato, primary sources, Queen Mary University of London, Richard Sternberg, scholars, Socrates, Sophia Connell, teleology, theistic evolution, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism}

Designer Science Misrepresents Aristotle and Ignores Church History

_{Brian Miller
May 28, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics

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C. W. Howell contrasts intelligent design with what he believes is Aquinas’ and Aristotle’s understanding of teleology (purpose) in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
May 26, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, abductive reasoning, Alexander Vilenkin, Anthony Aguirre, Aron Wall, Audrey Mithani, Big Bang, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, bounce-free cyclic model, causal horizon, conformal cyclic cosmology, conformal frame, cosmic beginning, cosmology, cyclic bounce model, David Klinghoffer, deductive logic, Emma Chapman, entropy, Generalized Second Law, geodesic, Itzhak Bars, Justin Brierley, naturalism, Neil Turok, Paul Steinhardt, Phil Halper, philosophy, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Tolman, Roger Penrose, spacetime, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, Steven Gratton, The Story of Everything, universe, Wall Street Journal}

On the BGV Theorem and Eternal Cyclic Cosmology

_{Bruce Gordon
May 26, 2026

Cosmology, Physics

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The beginning of the universe doesn’t need to be singular, so doubts about a singularity don’t need to translate into doubts about a beginning. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 16, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, Albert Newen, anole lizards, Antonella Tramacere, Antonio Damasio, Axel Cleeremans, biology, Carlos Montemayor, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, cognition, cognitive science, consciousness, Dogs, Eva Jablonka, experience, Gianmarco Maldarelli, horses, Jacques Singer, Jonathan Birch, Jonathon D. Crystal, Julio Hechavarria, Kristin Andrews, Krzysztof Dołęga, Lars Chittka, Léa Moncoucy, Lucia Melloni, Maxime Janbon, memory, neuroscience, Nicholas Humphrey, Noam Miller, Olga Dyakova, Onur Güntürkün, philosophy, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Royal Society, Sarah Skeels, self-awareness, Simon Alexander Burns Brown, Simona Ginsburg, T. S. Eliot, Yuranny Cabral-Calderin}

What Is Consciousness For? Sixteen Theories Take a Crack at the Question

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 16, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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It sounds like we do not really know what we are looking for, which will doubtless complicate efforts to find it. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
May 11, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Manual for Creating Atheists, addiction treatment, atheism, cinematography, clinicians, criminology, designing intelligence, epidemiology, evidence, faith, interventions, Judeo-Christian tradition, materialism, materialistic paradigm, mental illness, Michael Shermer, Peter Boghossian, philosophy, Portland State University, Socratic inquiry, Street Epistemology, TechSpective, The Story of Everything, theaters, Timothy McGrew, Tony Bradley, treatments, virus}

Science Liberated from Dogma: Story of Everything Offers a Journey for Creating Freethinkers

_{Terrell Clemmons
May 11, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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A 2013 book is a training manual for talking people who profess a religious faith, mostly Christian students on college campuses, out of their faith. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 30, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, abduction, abductive inferences, abductive reasoning, Alvin Plantinga, Bible, Big Bang, Calvinism, causes, creator, Dinesh D’Souza, documentary, effects, evidence, heart, induction, inference to the best explanation, intelligent design, New Testament, philosophers, philosophy, Psalms, Romans, scientific reasoning, sensus divinitatis, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, theism, theology, wisdom}

Meyer, D’Souza: Is Knowledge of a Creator Innate?

_{David Klinghoffer
April 30, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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A couple of friends made me laugh last week in telling about a Jewish class they took. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
April 15, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Philosophy of Science
Physics
Tagged
, chemistry, cosmology, God’s Not Dead, gravity, intelligent design, john lennox, Kevin Sorbo, Leonard Mlodinow, Oxford University, philosophy, philosophy of science, physics, showtimes, Singularity, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, The Grand Design, theaters}

What Grand Design? On Stephen Hawking’s Loophole

_{Terrell Clemmons
April 15, 2026

Cosmology, Philosophy of Science, Physics

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In their 2010 book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow set out to answer a big question. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 10, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, americans, conscience, Declaration of Independence, endowed by our creator, equality, Founders, ID the Future, intelligent designer, John West, liberty, limited government, moral design, natural philosophy, philosophy, revelation, rights, scientific consensus, scientific discoveries, Scripture, theology, virtue}

The Science Behind the Declaration of Independence

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 10, 2026

Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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The scientific consensus of the Founders’ era confirmed the truths of the Declaration. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Myers III

Date
April 10, 2026

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, beauty, biologists, biology, cosmology, cosmos, documentary, experiments, faith, human experience, information, intelligent design, materialism, metaphysical assumptions, outcomes, philosophy, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientific culture, scientific discoveries, sentiment, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, universe}

The Story of Everything: Why This Documentary Matters

_{Walter Myers III
April 10, 2026

Biology, Cosmology, Intelligent Design

5}

It is a moment when the evidence has accumulated to the point where the materialist story is no longer the path of least resistance. Read More ›

Business people clapping and applause at meeting or conference, close-up of hands. Group of unknown businessmen and women in modern white office. Success teamwork or corporate coaching concept

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 31, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brian Bird, cable TV, community, faith, family, grassroots, Hearties, hope, intelligent design, Parade, philosophy, producer, science, showrunner, storytelling, television, The Story of Everything, universe, viewers, When Calls the Heart}

Story of Everything Producer Has a Huge Fan Base

_{David Klinghoffer
March 31, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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That’s a lot of people. I should have known. You can blame me for not having a television. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
March 27, 2026

Categories
Fine-tuning
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, Alex O’Connor, background knowledge, Bayesian formalism, Bayesian reasoning, belief, Big Bang, calculus, conditionalization, cosmology, deductive logic, Dutch book arguments, fine-tuning, Fisherian hypothesis testing, inference to the best explanation, John Maynard Keynes, logic, Mercury, naturalism, Nevin Climenhaga, null distributions, philosophy, precession, probability, propositions, psychological states, rejection regions, Sean Carroll, Socrates, subjective interpretation, syllogism, The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers (series)}

The Objective Probability of the Fine-Tuning Evidence

_{Bruce Gordon
March 27, 2026

Fine-tuning, Philosophy, Physics

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Science and philosophy aim to explain aspects of the world and of our experience, and both offer judgments about what is correct or incorrect. Read More ›