Tag: Pierre-Simon Laplace

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
October 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __recommended, abstraction, aeronautics, airflow, airfoil, Albert Einstein, anatomy, antennae, arches, Aristotle, balloons, biology, bird wings, black-body radiation, duality, emergence, engineering, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, footballs, formalisms, function, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, mathematicians, Michael Behe, molecular biology, parachutes, physics, physiology, Pierre-Simon Laplace, pistons, propellers, pulleys, radiators, René Descartes, Return of the God Hypothesis, rockets, science of purpose, scientism, specified irreducible complexity, Stephen Meyer, structure, structure-function dualism, structure-function relationship, Werner Heisenberg, What Is Life?, wing}

Emergence and Irreducible Complexity: A Unified Theory

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
October 29, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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We are all familiar with the duality — structure and function — from both technology and biology. Read More ›

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post

Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 22, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, Antony Flew, central dogma, Chance & Necessity, Charles Darwin, Colin Pittendrigh, Daniel Witt, Design Inference, Erwin Schrödinger, Eugene Wigner, Francis Crick, God Hypothesis, intention, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Jaques Monod, Life Itself, materialism, Michael Levin, molecular biology, natural law, physicalism, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Sahotra Sarkar, science of purpose, scientific atheism, scientism, specified complexity, telos, theologians, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Kuhn}

Life Itself: In Michael Levin’s Platonism, Teleology Advances

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 22, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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This is a huge step by a leading contemporary academic scientist away from pure physicalism. Read More ›

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post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 20, 2025

Categories
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Ada Lovelace, BIO-Complexity, Charles Babbage, closed system, computer science, Conservation of Information, Edgar Allan Poe, Energy, entropy, information, intellectual history, large language models, Law of Conservation of Information, Leonard Susskind, Peter Medawar, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Robert J. Marks II, search}

Conservation of Information: The History of an Idea

_{William A. Dembski
January 20, 2025

History of Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

30}

Conservation of information” is a term that appears in both the physics and the computer science literature. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Chaberek

Date
June 10, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Apostle Paul, Brian Miller, Christianity, Douglas Axe, Ernst Haeckel, faith and science, Father Michael Chaberek, Germany, God Hypothesis, Guillermo Gonzalez, Jay Richards, Krakow, Napoleon, Neo-Darwinism, New Atheism, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Poland, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, The Privileged Planet}

Return of the God Hypothesis in Poland

_{Michael Chaberek, O.P.
June 10, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Has the God hypothesis indeed returned? When Darwin presented his theory, it seemed that science had thoroughly confirmed a complete naturalistic paradigm. Read More ›

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post

Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 2, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", diffusion, Evolution News, formalism, Galileo Galilei, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, mechanics, Michael Behe, natural law, naturalists, Nicolaus Copernicus, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Plato, Pythagoras, science of purpose, scientific atheists, Stephen Meyer, thermodynamics, William A. Dembski}

Is Natural Law Irreducible?

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 2, 2024

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physical Sciences

5}

Perhaps the most fundamental distinction between naturalism and intelligent design is where each metaphysical framework draws the line at irreducibility. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Asia, atheism, Charles Lyell, Christianity, Daniel Dennett, E Conchis Omnia, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, First Cause, fundamentalism, Garden of Eden, God Hypothesis, Higher Criticism, Lamarckian theory, literalism, Louis Agassiz, Nick Spencer, Noah’s Ark, Noah’s Flood, On the Origin of Species, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Pierre-Simon Laplace, quantum weirdness, Richard Dawkins, Richard Swinburne, The Necessity of Atheism, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Uncertainty Principle, Victorian England, William James, William Lane Craig}

Shelley, Darwin, and the 19th-Century God Debate

_{Neil Thomas
March 13, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

19}

The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley threw down the gauntlet for what was effectively to become the great Victorian dispute about religious faith. Read More ›

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post

Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 21, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Aristotle, body, causation, Christianity, DNA, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, mind, Nicolaus Copernicus, Pierre-Simon Laplace, proteins, René Descartes, ribosomes, science of purpose, scientism, soul, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Aquinas, William A. Dembski}

To Understand Nature’s Intentionality, We Must Go Back to the Future

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 21, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

It required the truly inimitable intellect of Aquinas to Christianize and modernize what Aristotle had said 1,600 years before him. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
April 4, 2023

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Epistemology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Physics
Tagged
, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Christianity, creator, faith, Francisco Ayala, Frederik van Niekerk, humanity, intellectuals, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, natural selection, Nico Vorster, NOMA, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Robert Boyle, Science and Faith in Dialogue, soul, William of Ockham, worldview}

Qualified Agreement: How Scientific Discoveries Support Theistic Belief

_{Stephen C. Meyer
April 4, 2023

Biology, Cosmology, Epistemology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physics

8}

For many intellectuals, a scientifically informed worldview was a materialistic worldview. It is not hard to see why they held this opinion. Read More ›

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post

Date
December 1, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Aristotle, computational biology, Cornelius Hunter, determinism, evidence, free choice, future, ID the Future, illusion, laws of nature, Michael Keas, physicists, Pierre-Simon Laplace, podcast, Sabine Hossenfelder, theoretical physics}

Determinism: “An Irrational Rejection of Evidence”

_{Science and Culture
December 1, 2020

Evolution

1}

German theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder takes even human choices to be merely an illusory experience. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
October 22, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Big Bang, brains, Corinthians, David Hume, determinism, evolution, free will, humans, illusion, intellectual necessity argument, knowledge, laws of nature, miracles, particles, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Sabine Hossenfelder, St. Paul, theoretical physics, truth}

Determinism: Smart People and an Absurd Claim

_{Cornelius Hunter
October 22, 2020

Physical Sciences

5}

Why should Sabine Hossenfelder think for a moment that anything that occurs to her has any correspondence to truth? Read More ›