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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 5, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", abduction, adaptation, CELS, Charles Darwin, Columbia University, Current Biology, equilibrium, Eric Anderson, gravity, Herbert Spencer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mars, Mars rovers, molecular machines, New Zealand, planets, PNAS, Science Advances, Second Law of Thermodynamics, selective pressure, software, sponges, TEDx talk, University of Otago, University of Sydney, water}

What’s Driving Darwin’s Driverless Car?

_{David Coppedge
September 5, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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What drives natural selection? Evolutionary forces. What are evolutionary forces? They’re what drive natural selection. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, aesthetics, birds, childhood, ears, emotions, evolutionary adaptation, hearing, medicine, mental health, mind, music, planets, Plato, soul, sound waves, speech, sun, UC Berkeley, YouTube videos}

The Human Mind Is Wired for Music: How Did That Come About?

_{Eric Hedin
August 22, 2023

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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Most of us can correctly remember melodies and lyrics learned in childhood, even years after last having heard them. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 30, 2023

Categories
Arts
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, astronomers, black holes, civilization, creativity, dark energy, dark matter, electromagnetic force, electrons, elementary particles, elements, gravity, human beings, humanity, image of God, James Webb Space Telescope, Judeo-Christian tradition, laws of nature, literature, nebulae, neutrons, planets, protons, spectroscopy, stars, sunset, universe}

Intelligence Is Unnatural, and Why That Matters

_{Eric Hedin
June 30, 2023

Arts, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics, Technology

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One of the advantages we have in our study of nature is our ability to observe an entire “unpolluted” universe. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
March 10, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, Adam Frank, astrophysics, Big Bang, CERN, cosmic origins, creation, Energy, Ernst Mayr, evolution, galaxies, Georges Lemaître, matter, planets, stars, universe, University of Rochester}

What the Big Bang Theory Tells Us About Creation

_{Rob Sheldon
March 10, 2023

Cosmology, Evolution, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences, Planetology

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The universe did not begin with a cosmic snow globe, or an accident at the CERN accelerator. It had to begin with Georges Lemaître’s "Cosmic Egg." Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 7, 2022

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, assumptions, Big Bang, Closer to Truth, cosmic inflation, empirical evidence, Energy, galaxies, intelligent design, Paul Steinhardt, planets, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Scientific American, stars, universe, YouTube videos}

To Avoid a Cosmic Beginning, Physicist Paul Steinhardt Goes to Extraordinary Lengths

_{Brian Miller
November 7, 2022

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Steinhardt is one of the most interesting and influential figures in cosmology. He was one of the original architects of inflationary cosmology. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 27, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Reproductive Science
Technology
Tagged
, airplanes, cars, computers, duplication errors, engineers, evolution, intelligent design, machines, mathematician, nuclear power plants, planets, science texts, self-replicating machines, smart phones, unintelligent forces}

More on Self-Replicating Machines

_{Granville Sewell
June 27, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics, Reproductive Science, Technology

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We know how to build a simple Ford Model T car. Now let’s build a factory inside this car, so that it can produce Model T cars automatically. Read More ›

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Date
June 20, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atmosphere, Cavendish Laboratory, chemicals, clouds, evolution, exoplanets, extraterrestrial life, James Webb Space Telescope, life, life forms, planets, Research, solar system, University of Cambridge, Venus}

New Analysis Casts Doubt on Claims for Life on Venus

_{Science & Culture
June 20, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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The newer study agrees that the composition of Venus’s atmosphere is unusual but not that it is evidence for life. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 18, 2021

Categories
Astronomy
Evolution
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Copernican principle, Dartmouth College, earth, Encyclopedia Britannica, exoplanets, logic, Marcelo Gleiser, Nicolaus Copernicus, planets, solar system}

Astronomer: We Can’t Just Assume Countless Earths Out There

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 18, 2021

Astronomy, Evolution, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The Copernican Principle has been misused to imply that Earth is somehow insignificant. That is a philosophical attitude, unrelated to the science. Read More ›

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Date
September 19, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, earth, extraterrestrials, immaterial mind, intelligent design, Michael Shermer, natural world, nature, planets, Return of the God Hypothesis, skeptics, stars, Stephen Meyer, theism, theology, universe}

Meyer on Front-Loaded Intelligent Design, and More

_{Science & Culture
September 19, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Stephen Meyer says he doesn’t have an in-principle objection to that idea. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 30, 2021

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atmosphere, biomolecules, biosphere, carbon, carbon dioxide, Children of Light, cofactors, earth, enzymes, evolution, Forbes, galactic habitable zone, habitability, hydrogen, infrared radiation, Michael Denton, Moon, oxygen, photosynthesis, planets, radiation, unguided evolution}

Study: Planets Capable of Sustaining Photosynthesis Are Extremely Rare

_{Casey Luskin
June 30, 2021

Physical Sciences

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So how did the paper determine that photosynthesis has an “overall simplicity,” despite the complexity just described? Read More ›