Tag: plate tectonics

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biochemists, Children of Light, circulation, coincidences, doctors, electromagnetic radiation, fine-tuning, Fire-Maker, gamma rays, hydrologic cycle, light, metabolism, Michael Denton, photosynthesis, plate tectonics, radio waves, Sarah Chaffee, sun, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, The Wonder of Water, universe, water, wavelength}

We Are Children of Light and Water: Dr. Michael Denton

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 10, 2025

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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“In this vast range, there’s only one…infinitesimally small band which has the right energy for photosynthesis,” a prerequisite for human life. Coincidence? Read More ›

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post

Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
September 3, 2024

Categories
Geology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Rare Earth
Technology
Tagged
, advanced life, atmosphere, biosphere, coal, copper, Donald Brownlee, earth, earthquakes, fossils, Global Positioning System, gold, Hawaiian Islands, iron, Jay Richards, magnetic field, Peter Ward, plate tectonics, salt, The Privileged Planet, uranium}

Plate Tectonics and Scientific Discovery

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
September 3, 2024

Geology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Rare Earth, Technology

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Plate tectonics is important for advanced life in multiple ways and planets with plate tectonics are very rare. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 14, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Geology
Intelligent Design
Rare Earth
Tagged
, aliens, Archean Eon, atmosphere, continents, Drake equation, Enceladus, extraterrestrial intelligence, Fermi paradox, habitability, intelligent design, magnetic field, Mars, Nautilus, Neoproterozoic, oceans, plate tectonics, Scientific Reports, solar system, The Privileged Planet, Titan}

Study: Geological Habitability Parameters Imply Earth is Special and Advanced Life Extremely Rare

_{Casey Luskin
August 14, 2024

Fine-tuning, Geology, Intelligent Design, Rare Earth

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One thing that is likely to get some pushback is the study’s claim that modern-style plate tectonics on Earth did not commence until the Neoproterozoic. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 20, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Geology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Physics
Rare Earth
Technology
Tagged
, agriculture, Andrew McDiarmid, Brian Miller, cooking, earth, Earth’s surface, evidence, fire, food, foresight, gold, hunting, ID the Future, intelligent design, iron, likelihood ratio, physicists, plate tectonics, soil, technological advancement, universe, water cycle}

How Earth is Designed for Human Technology

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 20, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Physics, Rare Earth, Technology

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Is all this a coincidence? We think that’s a stretch. One or two fortunate parameters might be called a fluke. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 26, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, astrobiologists, astrobiology, atmosphere, biosphere, complex specified information, evolutionists, Gaia, humans, information, information processing, intelligent design, life, plate tectonics, PLOS Biology, probabilities, prokaryotes, Universe Today, University of Edinburgh, volcanoes, water}

Astrobiologists Offer an “Information-Based View of the Biosphere”

_{David Coppedge
March 26, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Planetology

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Even if their estimates need to be revised by a terabase or two someday, they have made it clear that our biosphere is awash in information. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 18, 2022

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astrophysicists, coincidences, complex life, earth, Enceladus, geysers, habitable zone, intelligent design, Jupiter, magnetic field, magnetic fields, Mars, Michael Denton, NASA, Neptune, perturbation, plate tectonics, Second Law of Thermodynamics, solar system, The Miracle of Man, thermodynamics, timing, Titan, Uranus}

Intelligent Design and Planetary Timing

_{David Coppedge
October 18, 2022

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Enceladus is an especially fascinating case. Nearly 100 geysers of water ice are currently jetting out of its south pole at supersonic speed. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 1, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, boron, bromine, ceramics, charcoal, copper, diamond, fertilizer, Geophysical Research Letters, glass, Guillermo Gonzalez, iron, Jay Richards, magnesium, metalloenzymes, Mojave Desert, Periodic Table, plate tectonics, prior fitness, Privileged Species, semiconductors, SpaceX, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, The Privileged Planet, Turkey}

Prior Fitness for Life: The Problem of Boron

_{David Coppedge
August 1, 2022

Intelligent Design, Science

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The atomic element boron is essential for life, but how do you get it from stars to plants and animals? Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 25, 2022

Categories
Chemistry
Faith & Science
Geology
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, atmosphere, bronzitite, Casey Luskin, creator, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, earth, intelligent design, luck, magnetic field, Michael Denton, paleontology, plate tectonics, Stephen Meyer, water}

Good Earth: Luskin Explores Design Evidence from Geology

_{David Klinghoffer
May 25, 2022

Chemistry, Faith & Science, Geology, Physical Sciences, Physics

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That’s a sample of bronzitite at the top of this post. It's like a cosmic wink from the creator. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 26, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Lyell, complexity, fossils, heuristic, historical sciences, history, inference to the best explanation, information, intelligent design, paleontologists, plate tectonics, predictions, rocks, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Positive Case for Intelligent Design (series), uniformitarianism}

What Is the Positive Case for Intelligent Design?

_{Casey Luskin
April 26, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Imagine that you took your 4x4 truck off-roading and you returned home with the truck covered in mud. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 1, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Geology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Adam and Eve, Casey Luskin, Christianity, dogmatism, Evangelical Christians, Hank Hanegraaff, Hank Unplugged, Hebrew Bible, human origins, plate tectonics}

Luskin: Adam and Eve and the Evolving Scientific Consensus

_{David Klinghoffer
April 1, 2022

Faith & Science, Geology, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Scientists have become much more reticent about saying the first couple must be no more than a product of the ancient Hebrew imagination. Read More ›