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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 20, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, AI Overview, archaeology, art, Bas van Fraassen, biology, ChatGPT, complex specified information, computation, computer science, Conservation of Information, control, cryptography, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, Ernest Nagel, experiment, fecundity, Forensics, function, gnana yoga, Grok, Hinduism, ID 3.0 Research Program, Imre Lakatos, information, intelligent design, James Tour, James Woodward, Karl Popper, large language models, Larry Laudan, law, Lex Fridman, living things, materialism, mathematics, mechanism, methodological naturalism, Michael Levin, Nancy Cartwright, naturalism, ontology, origin of life, patterns, Paul Feyerabend, philosophy, Pierre Duhem, Plato, Platonic space, pseudoscience, Richard Dawkins, Sandra Mitchell, scientific theory, SETI, steganography, Stephen Meyer, testability, testing, thermostats, Thomas Kuhn, Tufts University, Willard Van Orman Quine}

Michael Levin and the Philosophy of Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
January 20, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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Levin is not a reflexive Darwinian materialist. Moreover, he touches on many themes that intelligent design theorists touch on. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
January 14, 2026

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Bayesian inference, Bayesian reasoning, causal ramification, chance, cosmic design, fine-tuning, fine-tuning arguments, improbability, intelligent design, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, King’s College London, multiverse, observation biases, philosophy, physical laws, physicists, physics, probability, Roberto Fumagalli, theism, universe}

New Peer-Reviewed Paper Defends Cosmic Fine-Tuning Argument

_{Jonathan McLatchie
January 14, 2026

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Fumagalli does not in the end state whether he himself lands on the multiverse hypothesis, cosmic design, or unknown physics as the best explanation. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 8, 2026

Categories
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, censorship, Darwinian evolution, Dover, education, expert witness, ID the Future, intelligent design, Kitzmiller v. Dover, philosophy, public schools, science, science education, scientific revolution, theology, University of Warwick}

Philosopher Steve Fuller on Science, Censorship, and the “Church of Darwin”

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 8, 2026

Legal Science (jurisprudence), Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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The conversation delves into the institutional censorship within modern science, where ID concepts are effectively barred from professional journals. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
December 20, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Tagged
, American Civil Liberties Union, bacterial flagellum, Casey Luskin, Darwin Strikes Back, Darwin’s Black Box, Design Inference, evolution, intelligent agents, intelligent design, irreducibly complex systems, Judge John E. Jones, Kevin Padian, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Michael Behe, molecular machines, Of Pandas and People, Pennsylvania, philosophy, Scott Minnich, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, supernatural, Ten Myths About Dover, textbooks, The Design Revolution, theology, Thomas Woodward, William Dembski}

Ten Myths About Dover: No. 1, “Jones Judged Actual ID Theory, Not a Straw Man”

_{Sarah Chaffee
December 20, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Legal Science (jurisprudence)

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At the end of the day, the ruling by Judge Jones really is not a refutation of intelligent design at all. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 15, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antony Flew, Barbara Forrest, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Cicero, creationism, creator, David dewolf, Edwards v. Aguillard, Eugenie Scott, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Fred Hoyle, intelligent agent, intelligent causes, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John E. Jones, John Haught, John West, Jonathan Witt, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Polanyi, molecular machines, New York Times, Of Pandas and People, Pennsylvania, philosophy, religion, Richard Dawkins, scientific method, Scott Minnich, Supreme Court, Ten Myths About Dover, textbooks, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Thomas Aquinas, William Dembski, William Paley}

Ten Myths About Dover: No. 7, “Showed ID Is ‘Religious’ and a Form of ‘Creationism’”

_{Casey Luskin
December 15, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Is intelligent design actually religious? Is it a form of Christianity? We can immediately see that it is not. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
October 17, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, Bruce Gordon, contingency, cosmologists, cosmology, kinetic energy, Lawrence Krauss, philosophy, physical laws, physics, Proof of God in 3 Minutes, quantum fields, rationality, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, universe, Victor Stenger}

Dealing with Further Objections to “Proof of God in 3 Minutes”

_{Bruce Gordon, Casey Luskin, and Brian Miller
October 17, 2025

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physics

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A transcendent, supernatural first cause is necessary to explain why our universe and all of its matter and energy exist. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 13, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, biology, Brandeis University, Darwinism, elementary particles, English, ethics, Euclid, France, God the Science the Evidence, history, immaterial mind, incompleteness theorem, Irreducible Complexity, Kurt Gödel, materialism, Michel-Yves Bolloré, miracles, morality, Olivier Bonnassies, philosophy, physics, protein rarity, rationality, Return of the God Hypothesis, Scripture, Stephen Meyer, theology, waiting times}

Innovative New Book by French Authors Complements Meyer’s God Hypothesis

_{Brian Miller
October 13, 2025

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physics

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Kurt Gödel is not as widely known in popular culture as Einstein, but mathematicians consider his work just as revolutionary and foundational. Read More ›

The interior of ancient buildings in the Qin and Han dynasties of China

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
October 3, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Baylor University, brain, ChatGPT, Chinese Room argument, computation, digestion, Discovery Institute Press, John Searle, language, Minding the Brain, ontology, philosophy, Science and Culture Today, scientism, subjectivity, The Nature of Nature, William Dembski}

John Searle (1932–2025): A Titan Passes

_{Bruce Gordon
October 3, 2025

Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Searle’s most famous argument is undoubtedly the Chinese Room argument, first presented in his essay “Minds, Brains, and Programs” (1980). Read More ›

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Date
October 2, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, artificial intelligence, atheists, bats, Chinese Room argument, computation, consciousness, Edward Feser, John Searle, philosophers, philosophy, popular culture, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Nagel}

Farewell to John Searle, Philosopher of Mind and Language

_{Science & Culture
October 2, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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His Chinese Room thought experiment, an argument for why computers can seem clever without having minds, was widely understood among the lay public. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
September 25, 2025

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Tagged
, alchemy, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Aristotle, Charles Bradlaugh, Cicero, Enlightenment, Epicurus, evolution, Galen, George Eliot, history, HMS Beagle, intellectual history, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Journal of Researches, literature, Lucretianism, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Misia Landau, Origin of Species, philosophy, Plato, Renaissance, seafaring, Tom Wolfe}

Darwin, Faust, and the Alchemist: Unexpected Roots of a Scientific Idea

_{Neil Thomas
September 25, 2025

Arts, Evolution

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Today we would of course brand both Faust and the Alchemist fantasists or “mad scientists” of the first order. Was Darwin prone to such wishful thinking? Read More ›