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April 29, 2020

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Physical Sciences
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Are Cosmic and Planetary Fine-Tuning Constant?

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April 29, 2020

Physical Sciences

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The stability of atoms, stars, and people depends on finely tuned physical laws and constants in the local universe. But are they fixed throughout space and time? Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
March 2, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Freeman Dyson: The Passing of an Iconoclastic Physicist

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
March 2, 2020

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Dyson was careful to take an open-minded approach: not fully endorsing design, yet not rejecting it either. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 13, 2020

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
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“Safe to Question” — Another Graduate of Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design Shares Her Story

_{David Klinghoffer
February 13, 2020

Biology, Intelligent Design

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Discovery Institute is populating a community of dissenters in academia with the annual all-expenses-paid Summer Seminars. Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
January 16, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
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, __edited, Africa, Biomimetics, earth, explanatory filter, Gabon, geologists, geysers, intelligent design, No Free Lunch, oxygen, physicists, solar system, specified complexity, universal probability bound, William A. Dembski}

Natural and Artificial Nuclear Reactors: Evidence of Purpose in Energy Production?

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
January 16, 2020

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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In 1972 French physicists discovered that natural nuclear fission reactors were in operation about two billion years ago in Oklo, Gabon in Africa. Read More ›

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Date
November 28, 2018

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Biology
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
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, __cedited, Charles Darwin, clockmaker, cosmic fine-tuning, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Edinburgh, Flying Spaghetti Monster, instinct, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, life, natural theology, physicists, rationality, Richard Dawkins, software, universe, vitalism, watchmaker}

Intelligent Design and the Logic of Hume’s Skepticism

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November 28, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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Many remember David Hume as a pioneering freethinker who saw through the superstition and sectarian dogmatism of religion. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 25, 2016

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
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, __tedited, biologists, conflict myth, Genesis, history, interdisciplinary, mathematics, misrepresentation, Paul Nelson, physicists, Royal Society, storytelling, Wistar Institute}

For Darwin Advocates, Wistar Conference Remains a Pain in the Master Narrative

_{David Klinghoffer
April 25, 2016

Evolution, History of Science

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Mathematicians told biologists, "It looks like the math is not going to cooperate" with evolutionary theory. Read More ›